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"Mark Haney" <mhaney@××××××××××××.org> posted |
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47B22624.7000109@××××××××××××.org, excerpted below, on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 |
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18:05:08 -0500: |
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> I recently upgraded to KDE 3.5.8 and now one of my favorite features, |
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> the ability to adjust my sound volume from within KDE (via Audacious or |
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> Amarok) isn't working. I have to adjust it directly with alsamixer. |
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> I've not made any major adjustments to make.conf or anything, so what am |
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> I overlooking? |
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Do you use arts or not? Even if you keep it disabled (as I do now), many |
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KDE applications don't include much of their sound functionality if |
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merged without the arts USE flag. Thus, even if you don't actually /use/ |
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arts, you likely still want the arts USE flag on, or you'll be missing a |
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lot more than arts. (I found that out the hard way.) |
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That's one of the good things to look forward to with KDE4. No more |
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virtually unending hassles with arts! Unfortunately, it'll be KDE 4.1 |
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(at least) before it's the functional match of KDE 3.5.x. That's set for |
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June IIRC, which means July or later before it goes stable. Figure |
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second half of the year... |
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So if you had USE=-arts for anything, remerge it with USE=arts, and see |
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if that helps. You may have to remerge all of KDE if you didn't merge |
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the arts package itself. |
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If it's not that, it depends. The whole thing is rather a mess, with |
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arts being one of the biggest festering sores of KDE 3 because it has had |
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minimal maintenance for some time as it's a pile of patches on patches |
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that no one has wanted to touch. There are often ways to get things |
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working, but they differ so much by installation and individual problem |
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that it's very difficult to troubleshoot remotely, and even locally, it |
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often ends up being a case of trying random things until you either give |
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up or get lucky. Thus, even if little else changed, getting rid of arts |
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is reason enough to rejoice and eagerly await KDE4 (or install the 4.0.1 |
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Gentoo testing versions, in the tree but masked, if you don't mind some |
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other stuff not working as smoothly as later KDE 3 has). |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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