No sound in kopete

[John McCourt]

Kopete wont play any sound notificiations on Ubuntu. Many users on http://ubuntuforums.org have also experienced this problem.

[Kevin Oberle (kevin.oberle)]

I can confirm this myself. Kopete is not giving me any sound. Check out this forum topic. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=391869&highlight=kopete+sound

[Liam Keene (liam-keene)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

It would really help if you offer more information on the version of Kopete, Ubuntu and the system you are running?

Any specific details about your soundcard? Depending on your desktop environment you could use KInfoCenter (KDE) or Harware Information (GNOME) to provide this.

I am using Kopete 0.12.5 (KDE 3.5.7) on Kubuntu Gutsy. My sound card is a Sound Blaster CA0106 (SBLive!) and Kopete sound notifications are working fine. By default a lot of notification events (message received, new mail, etc) were not assigned sound files, so this might be another thing to check.

[Kristopher Murata (murata)]

I was having the same problem and I solved this by choosing alsa as my audio device in System Settings -> Sound System -> Select the audio device: Advanced Sound System Architecture

[Kevin Krumwiede (kjkrum)]

Using kopete 3.5.9-0ubuntu1 on a fresh and up-to-date install of Kubuntu 8.04. I've tried all the solutions in this report and the linked forum topic. Kopete was already set to use the KDE sound system. Forcing the KDE sound system to ALSA did not help. Amarok and system sounds are sharing the hardware just fine. In the KDE sound event config, Kopete events are turned on and have sounds associated with them, and all play fine with the test button.

Kopete simply doesn't play sounds. At all.

[Kevin Krumwiede (kjkrum)]

Re. the above: Kopete's self-reported version is 0.12.7. The pakage version according to dpkg is 4:3.5.9-0ubuntu1.

[Marcus Asshauer (mcas)]

Thank you for reporting this bug. Due to the last comment i mark this bug as confirmed.

[Kevin Krumwiede (kjkrum)]

I got it working, but I can't explain my fix.

Originally, my sound system was set (in Kcontrol) to ALSA, and KDE system sounds, mplayer, and amaroK were all sharing the sound card. Trying to test the configured Kopete sounds from within Kopete (under Settings -> Configure Notifications...) sometimes resulted in a "pop" from the speakers several seconds after attempting to play the sound, but otherwise nothing.

I switched the sound system to OSS, which allowed KDE, mplayer, and Kopete to work, but not amaroK. In the course of trying to get amaroK to use OSS, I deleted ~/.xine/config. (That probably has nothing to do with the fix, but you never know.)

Then I switched the sound system back to ALSA. Magically, Kopete was able to play sounds! This "fix" survived a reboot. However, after about 8 hours of uptime, I heard another "pop" from the speakers when one of my contacts came online, and then Kopete would not play any more sounds until I restarted X.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Still an issue in Intrepid/Kopete 0.50.80?

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!