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

[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


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

Hope it helps!!

Chema

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