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So holly, is arts absolutely necessary to get KDE system sounds? I |
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installed KDE 3.4 without arts. Alsa does fine as does amarok, gaim, |
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and several others _except_ KDE. I guess arts is the reason, huh? |
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Tony |
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Holly Bostick wrote: |
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>John Jolet schreef: |
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>>On Saturday 20 August 2005 14:31, Christoph Eckert wrote: |
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>>>Use alsamixer in a console window to adjust the settings. Ensure master |
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>>>is open and PCM is unmuted and open. |
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>>I have a question about that...using the in-kernel alsa drivers and I get |
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>>sound fine with xmms under kde, but the system notification sounds are |
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>>silent. I'm kinda mystified. |
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>If xmms plays, then your sound is obviously working. If KDE system |
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>sounds are not playing, there could be 3 reasons that I can think of: |
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>1) arts (the kde sound server) is not enabled. You can check this in |
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>kcontrol=>Sound and Multimedia=>Sound System; is the checkbox for |
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>'enable sound system' checked? Is the correct sound system selected in |
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>the 'Hardware' tab? It's not much use to tell KDE to pipe aRTs through |
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>ESD if you don't have ESD running) |
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>2) system sounds are turned off. You can check this in kcontrol=>Sound |
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>and Multimedia=>System Notifications. Is the checkbox and drop-down menu |
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>to turn all sounds off perhaps enabled? Secondarily, try selecting an |
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>event that has a sound attached. Does the 'Play sound' checkbox become |
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>checked? If you test the sound using the little 'Play' button next to |
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>the filename, can you hear it? |
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>3) KMix is set to override alsamixer settings on login, and it (KMix) is |
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>muted (KMix does not use or refer to the alsamixer settings, but rather |
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>its own. It's very annoying, and why I avoided it during my brief time |
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>using KDE). This can be fixed by running KMix and either unmuting the |
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>appropriate channels if muted, or setting KMix not to override the ALSA |
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>mixer settings on startup, or by setting KMix not to start at all at login. |
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>Hope this helps, |
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>Holly |
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