Re: [gentoo-user] kde3.4.3 with arts on amd64

[Marc Schlienger]

Am Sonntag, 8. Januar 2006 14:01 schrieb Jose Maria Alvarez Fernandez:
> El Domingo, 8 de Enero de 2006 13:53, Holly Bostick escribió:
> > Marc Schlienger schreef:
> > > Hi, I've installed kde3.4.3 with arts on my amd64 machine. Alsa is
> > > working fine. But arts works only partially. All notification sound
> > > doesn't work. Also I don't get sound when logging in. But, for
> > > example, amarok works with the arts driver. Is this a known bug? What
> > >  can I do?
> > >
> > > Regards Marc
> >
> > Is aRTs set to use ALSA? kcontrol (KDE Control Center)=> Sound and
> > Multimedia=> Sound System=> Hardware Tab => Select the Audio device
> > drop-down (choose 'Alsa').
> >
> > Secondly, you do have system sounds turned on, yes? Assuming that the
> > backend is properly configured, in order to have sounds in KDE you need
> > the following settings in kcontrol:
> >
> > Sound and Multimedia=> Sound System=> Sound System=> General Tab=>
> > "Enable the Sound System" must be checked (system sounds are played
> > through aRTS, and that is the sound system this checkbox enables);
> >
> > Sound and Multimedia=> System Notifications. When the  "Event Source"
> > drop-down in this dialog is set to KDE System Notifications, you need to
> > make sure that:
> >
> > 1) valid sounds are associated with the various events (if the test of
> > the sound doesn't play, well, it's not going to play in KDE either), and
> >
> > 2) The Quick Control, when the "Apply to all events" checkbox is
> > checked, is not set to "Turn Off all Sounds".
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> > Holly
>
> It also can be:
>
> - You used "-arts" in your USE.
> - You don't have this in ~/.kde/share/config/knotifyrc

I have got "arts" in my USE flags. 

>
>
> [StartProgress]
> Arts Init=true
> KNotify Init=true
> Use Arts=true
>

I don't have this. But that's not the root of the problem.
 
> Hope it helps!!
>
> Chema

Thanks.

Regards Marc 

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