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 1E6wVe-0000uV-C2 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 21 Aug 2005 20:33:38 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7LKW52p022977; Sun, 21 Aug 2005 20:32:05 GMT Received: from ms-smtp-01-eri0.texas.rr.com (ms-smtp-01.texas.rr.com [24.93.47.40]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7LKRQvx031389 for ; Sun, 21 Aug 2005 20:27:26 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.100] (cpe-68-201-117-76.gt.res.rr.com [68.201.117.76]) by ms-smtp-01-eri0.texas.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.7) with ESMTP id j7LKRvH9005177 for ; Sun, 21 Aug 2005 15:27:58 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <4308E3CD.3030700@gt.rr.com> Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 15:27:57 -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> <4307D6FE.9020003@planet.nl> <4308376F.4090905@gt.rr.com> <200508211148.14361.ce@christeck.de> <20050821115430.2491e4ad@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20050821115430.2491e4ad@hactar.digimed.co.uk> 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: d0022ab8-4473-4d80-a5ad-f4d2bdcf1df5 X-Archives-Hash: c5fe0ea33b5a3b8dbb3b21e0d38e1efc Neil Bothwick wrote: >On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 11:48:14 +0200, Christoph Eckert wrote: > > > >>>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? >>> >>> >>Yep. As long as a KDE application doesn't have an audio interface of >>its own, it uses arts for audio output. If arts isn't available, it >>will not be able to output sound. >> >> > >You can also configure KDE to use an external player for system sounds > >Control Centre -> Sound & Multimedia -> System Notifications -> Player Options > > This didn't work for me. Tried both aplay and alsaplayer. Neither helped. > > > -- 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