On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 3:10 AM, William L. Maltby CentOS4Bill@triad.rr.com wrote:
You need an application to do that. I've only used various Gnome desktop facilities. The file manager (Nautilus?) should do that when you double click a sound file. I'll test ... BRB
Yep. I went to /usr/share/sounds/alsa, using file manager, and it opened totem and played the sounds. This means that you could open totem directly, or any other sound playing application and try it. Unfortunately, unless we suspect broken applications are the problem, this really only is the same as what you tried to do originally, less the CD.
This is too weird for me. Yesterday, I could not get the volume control to do anything, including unmute the sound.
Today, I went to /usr/share/sounds/alsa and played the sounds with mplayer. After fiddling with the volume controls for a few seconds, suddenly everything is working fine.
Note that this _is_ a desktop, but hanged if I know what happened. Pilot error? (Nah, couldn't be! ;^)
mhr
PS: Another really strange item - on the FC8 boot, mplayer (the kernel?) was running the sound too fast, so I had to slow it down to 95% speed. On C 5.2, it works as advertised (no speed reduction required).