From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E6l2o-0005dB-Bf for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 21 Aug 2005 08:19:06 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7L8HipM031029; Sun, 21 Aug 2005 08:17:44 GMT Received: from ms-smtp-03-eri0.texas.rr.com (ms-smtp-03.texas.rr.com [24.93.47.42]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7L8C5CC027477 for ; Sun, 21 Aug 2005 08:12:05 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.100] (cpe-68-201-117-76.gt.res.rr.com [68.201.117.76]) by ms-smtp-03-eri0.texas.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.7) with ESMTP id j7L8CVRZ025711 for ; Sun, 21 Aug 2005 03:12:31 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <4308376F.4090905@gt.rr.com> Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 03:12:31 -0500 From: "Anthony E. Caudel" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050807) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] alsa config References: <002a01c5a5ba$b7ff0210$0501a8c0@croatus> <200508202131.11161.ce@christeck.de> <200508201902.09898.john@jolet.net> <4307D6FE.9020003@planet.nl> In-Reply-To: <4307D6FE.9020003@planet.nl> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine X-Archives-Salt: e95cd0bc-9c18-4ae0-a937-ff40c81e6dbe X-Archives-Hash: 3ecebea6801aae2775cada44a1da6f48 So holly, is arts absolutely necessary to get KDE system sounds? I installed KDE 3.4 without arts. Alsa does fine as does amarok, gaim, and several others _except_ KDE. I guess arts is the reason, huh? Tony Holly Bostick wrote: >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 > > -- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list