Why no system sound as user...only root

[rrfish72]

I've tried everything to get the system sounds to click, beep, whistle.... and still no luck. They only appear when I log into root. Anyone know how to get these sounds to work in my acct.

[gruntbuggly]

Have you tried

# adduser whatever audio

where whatever is the username.

[Markus]

Try this: http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13366 or the link in the link. You can even use links

[rrfish72]

Still nothing. Changed to external player aplay and now the option of changing to a different player is grayed out. Where is this external player. Do I have to specify exactly where the player is? When I shut down I see a line that says unable to save alsa settings.

[Markus]

Are you using alsa? You need it for aplay. This is my ~/.kde/share/config/knotifyrc:
markus@fujibox:~/.kde/share/config$ cat knotifyrc
[Misc]
External player=aplay
LastConfiguredApp=Konsole
Use external player=true
Volume=100

[StartProgress]
Arts Init=false
KNotify Init=true
Use Arts=false

You can also use Arts and choose artsplay as the external player. If the option is now grayed out, try changing it in knotifyrc to something like:
[Misc]
External player=artsplay
LastConfiguredApp=Konsole
Use external player=true
Volume=100

[StartProgress]
Arts Init=true
KNotify Init=true
Use Arts=true

[rrfish72]

[Misc]
External player=artsplay
LastConfiguredApp=Konsole
Use external player=true
Volume=100

[StartProgress]
Arts Init=true
KNotify Init=true
Use Arts=true

It was aplay then I changed it to artsplay.

[Markus]

Mmm, it works now?

[rrfish72]

No, sorry. Had to reboot to see if that changed anything. Still nothing.

[Markus]

Sorry, perhaps something with knoppix again, worked like a charm with kanotix.
You do have arts running, that is, have enabled KDE sound system and get sound when you click "test sound"?

[rrfish72]

Running Kanotix BH4. Nothing from test soound either.