Re: [gentoo-user] alsa config

[Holly Bostick]

John Jolet schreef:
> On Saturday 20 August 2005 14:31, Christoph Eckert wrote:
>
>>
>>Use alsamixer in a console window to adjust the settings. Ensure master
>>is open and PCM is unmuted and open.
>>
>>
>
>
> I have a question about that...using the in-kernel alsa drivers and I get
> sound fine with xmms under kde, but the system notification sounds are
> silent.  I'm kinda mystified.

If xmms plays, then your sound is obviously working. If KDE system
sounds are not playing, there could be 3 reasons that I can think of:

1) arts (the kde sound server) is not enabled. You can check this in
kcontrol=>Sound and Multimedia=>Sound System; is the checkbox for
'enable sound system' checked? Is the correct sound system selected in
the 'Hardware' tab? It's not much use to tell KDE to pipe aRTs through
ESD if you don't have ESD running)

2) system sounds are turned off. You can check this in kcontrol=>Sound
and Multimedia=>System Notifications. Is the checkbox and drop-down menu
to turn all sounds off perhaps enabled? Secondarily, try selecting an
event that has a sound attached. Does the 'Play sound' checkbox become
checked? If you test the sound using the little 'Play' button next to
the filename, can you hear it?

3) KMix is set to override alsamixer settings on login, and it (KMix) is
muted (KMix does not use or refer to the alsamixer settings, but rather
its own. It's very annoying, and why I avoided it during my brief time
using KDE). This can be fixed by running KMix and either unmuting the
appropriate channels if muted, or setting KMix not to override the ALSA
mixer settings on startup, or by setting KMix not to start at all at login.

Hope this helps,
Holly
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