This is not a critical problem, but I have been searching for its solution almost every day since the upgrade to KDE 4.8 on Feb 28. That is precisely when the piano music 5-second burst signalling the completion of the login sequence ceased to exist on my computer. I don't know where to look for the switch to turn it off/on, though I have seriously tried to find it. This is not a problem that is anything like fatal, since everything-- and I mean EVERYTHING-- else is working fine, and I will be upgrading to Precise Pangolin anyway when it is released on 12.04, and will probably use it until the end of its LTS period, but I hate just not KNOWING what is the cause of the loss of the musical notification. Not knowing "why" it's not there is more of an obsessive thing-- it just gnaws at me that I can't find it, even though it likely will become moot after 12.04. Heck, I don't even know the name of the file that plays the music. Any body got any suggestions? No hardware or BIOS settings have been changed since KDE 4.8, though I did upgrade my hardware to a new Gigabyte AMD Radeon HDGV-R6450C-1GI/PCIE 2.1 video card (w/HDMI connection), and motherboard RAM to 8 gig Corsair DDR3/1333 about three months previous to the onset of the glitch occurring, and made the recommended changes to the BIOS at the time of the installation. Thereafter, I used the computer daily with no problems whatsoever caused by the new hardware. It definitely disappeared with the upgrade to KDE 4.8.0, and subsequently continues silent through 4.8.1.
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Last edited by erchie; Mar 19, 2012, 06:48 PM.Retired Merchant Seaman, 45 years service. (Computer 1): Gygabyte GA-MA78LMT-S2 board, AMD Athlon II x2 255 cpu, GV-R6450C-1G graphics, 2 x 4GB DDR3 RAM, 500 GB WD Green HD. (Computer 2): Asus F2A85-M PRO board, AMD A-Series A10-5800K 3.8GHz Quad Core 100W cpu, 2 x 8GB Kingston HyperX DDR3-1600 RAM, Samsung 840 Pro 512GB SATA 6Gb/s SSD -
See the thread at http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthr...ighlight=soundWindows no longer obstructs my view.
Using Kubuntu Linux since March 23, 2007.
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Thanks, Snowhog! Following the thread you pointed me to, the problem is solved.Retired Merchant Seaman, 45 years service. (Computer 1): Gygabyte GA-MA78LMT-S2 board, AMD Athlon II x2 255 cpu, GV-R6450C-1G graphics, 2 x 4GB DDR3 RAM, 500 GB WD Green HD. (Computer 2): Asus F2A85-M PRO board, AMD A-Series A10-5800K 3.8GHz Quad Core 100W cpu, 2 x 8GB Kingston HyperX DDR3-1600 RAM, Samsung 840 Pro 512GB SATA 6Gb/s SSDComment
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