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On Monday 26 February 2007 22:02, b.n. wrote: |
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> Alan McKinnon ha scritto: |
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> > On Sunday 25 February 2007, Mick wrote: |
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> >> Hi All, |
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> >> It seems that when Amarok is playing, all system sounds are put on |
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> >> hold. Once I close Amarok then all system (KDE) notifications |
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> >> suddenly sound at once! |
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> >> |
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> >> How do I figure out what's wrong and how should I fix it? |
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> > One word: |
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> > |
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> > arts |
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> > |
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> > It's an abomination that should not be suffered to live. Disable it, |
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> > switch it off, consign it to hell for all eternity. |
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> You can also compile all of kde switching off the "alsa" use flag. |
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Did you mean to say "arts"? I thought that this was required to be able to |
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play KDE system notifications? |
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I checked again my settings. I have enabled the Sound System in Kcontrol, but |
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have set it to use alsa. However, under System Notifications I used to |
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have /usr/bin/aplay as the external sound player (under Audio Player |
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settings). Since aplay was hard masked a long time ago, I switched back |
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to 'KDE sound system' which I believe is using Arts. I recall dmix playing |
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nicely with arts by mixing system notification sounds with alsa. From your |
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messages I assume that although alsa deals with software mixing all on its |
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own it does not mix in nicely with Arts. |
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Since aplay is hard masked, what external player should I use? What other |
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options are there to be able to play system notifications, if I want to keep |
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alsa? |
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Thanks for your responses. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |