On Wednesday 04 August 2004 18:59, Daniel Eckl wrote:
Hi - I had the same problem on SuSE 9.1. I solved it by - strangely enough - setting the external player to 'artsplay'. You do this by starting the control center and then going to 'Sound&Multimedia'->'System Notifications' and then push 'Player Settings' and fill in artsplay.
It is maybe a SuSE 9.1 problem, my PC at work has red-hat and there it worked without any external player (as it should).
Hope it helps gl
If you find that behavior strange, then you have deficiency in understanding the linux sound system.
Hi Daniel - I'd like to clarify something: First, I'm sure I have many deficiencies in my understanding of the linux sound system. But I do understand that you cannot play sound from more than one application if you don't use a sound demon. What I meant with 'strangely' was that I have to put in 'artsplay' as the *external* player if I want to hear any sound notifications, even if no other application uses the soundcard. I had to do it on SuSE 9.1 but not under redhat, which I found strange (and I'm not saying that it has to do something with SuSE, it might well be that I did something that in turn required to set artsplay explicitely). I understood 'external' as any other player besides artsplay, but maybe I'm wrong. But - no hard feelings: Your email did shed some light on other issues, so thanks gl -- Günter Lichtenberg ========>mailto:lichten@sron.nl SRON (EOS) Sorbonnelaan 2 3584 CA UTRECHT the Netherlands Tel.: +31 30 253 5719 FAX : +31 30 254 0860