[spam?] Testing sound?

[Ed Greshko]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> The sound on my Thinkpad T43 (model 1871-12G) sometimes works,
> and sometimes does not work.
> I think this has something to do with Suspend to Disk.
>
> However, I'm not really asking about this,
> but rather: Is there a simple way of testing if sound is working?
>
> I'm running Fedora-12/KDE, and looked at System Settings=>
> Look and Feel=>Notifications ,
> but did not really understand how one is supposed to use this.
>
> Is there a simple command-line test for sound?
>
> Shouldn't there be a test somewhere in KMix
> since there seem to be a billion choices there?
>
> The only test I have found is to put in a CD and run Amarok,
> but I am sure there is something simpler than that?
>
>   
Don't know if this will be of value to you....

I run KDE and I've enabled some "notifications".  One of them is for
konsole..  If I hit backspace, it plays a
sound...KDE-Sys-App-Message.ogg to be precise.  If you run Gnome, maybe
there is a similar function?



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