no login sound in 12.04

[Christopher Chaltain]

How is it ironic?

I've had several discussions with Ubuntu developers over startup sounds.
the last I knew, the log on sound would be off by default because of the
use case where someone is booting off a Live CD or USB stick in a class
room or INTERNET cafe. The drums were also going to be off by default
for the same reason, but the Ubuntu developers were convinced that the
drums needed to stay for the use case where a blind person was booting a
Live CD or a USB stick and needed that audible feedback to know when
their system was booted and they could press the control+s key to start
Orca.

There is a bug where the volume is muted or turned down very low on some
systems, but this is a bug and a different issue. There's also a bug
where LightDM isn't accessible, but I"m not sure if this has been fixed
in Precise yet or not.

If you're not hearing the drums then I think you're running into a bug
and you should open up a bug in LaunchPad or provide more information to
the Ubuntu Accessibility developers on this list. Ditto for the problem
you're seeing with no speech while in LightDM.

On 11/04/12 08:02, Dave Hunt wrote:
> Leaving the drums on as an accessibility aid?  Now, that's ironic! After
> installing to my hard drive, I had the drums once, never to return. 
> Furthermore, lightdm no longer talks, no matter how often I mash
> 'ctrl+s' on the login screen.
> 
> 
> -Dave
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 04/11/2012 02:57 AM, Christopher Chaltain wrote:
>>
>> Note that leaving the drums on at startup was left on by default as an
>> accessibility aid.

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Christopher (CJ)
chaltain at gmail.com