[SOLVED] Help with audio on GNOME

[keepitreall89]

Ok, I have a workstation that I had 9.10 Ubuntu running on over fall because I haven't played with linux in a few years. But I have always been a debian person, just didn't have the patience to set it up, where as ubuntu had all of the hardware working "out of the box." I just replaced ubuntu with 5.04 Lenny Debian a few days ago and go the official Ati drivers installed, along with GDM and Gnome, and KDE. The audio doesn't do anything under GNOME, I downloaded "gnome-audio" and installed it, in the audio settings I have "Intel HDA" selected for everything, and if I click "test" it pops up the window say "testing pipeline" and I can here the beeping through my sound system. But if I go over to the Sounds tab and click "play" next to the various sounds for logging off and stuff, nothing happens. No sound, nothing. However, if I log of and start a session in KDE, BAM, logon sounds and everything, and I haven't set anything up on KDE, today was the first time I logged on to, it. I logged on, heard the sound, and logged off scratching my head...
Does any one have any ideas for a linux newbie to try?

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

Execute alsamixer in Terminal and adjust volume of all available options.

[keepitreall89]

I did the alsamixer command and set basically every thing at 100, though most things already were. The sound isn't muted on the sound icon, and the same result.

[devils casper]

How did you install Debian? Is it a NetInstall or from Installation CD/DVD?
Have you installed alsa-utils package? Have you tried to play any sound file manually?

[keepitreall89]

Ok, this is odd. I played an AVI file through VLC on Gnome, perfect sound...
I do have Alsa-util installed. I installed via netinstall.

[devils casper]

That means something is wrong with System Sound files only. I will look into this and let you know.
What does happen when you play system sound files manually?

[keepitreall89]

If I go to /usr/share/sounds/ and just double click on files like "logon.wav" then I hear the little sound. However, if I then open up the sound preferences window and manually select the "logon.wav" files as my log on sound and then click Play, no sound.

[devils casper]

Strange ! I will check this in my Debian machine and let you know.

[HyperHacker]

What happens if you play a sound using "play" or "aplay" on the command line?

[keepitreall89]

Sorry HyperHacker, I saw your response a few days ago, but I am currently on spring break, I will try this as soon as I get back to my computer in 10 days.