On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 07:45 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Tuesday 30 August 2005 07:19, Jon Nelson wrote:
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You can play stuff with alsaplayer even when artsd is dead because alsa is the *system* sound system, and artsd is just (basically) for KDE, and artsd talks to alsa which talks to your soundcard. Since artsd is strongly deprecated in upcoming versions of both KDE and SuSE, try turning *off* the "use sound server" checkbox in the KDE sound control panel. KDE apps should then use alsa natively and everything should be OK. That's what I've done and it works.
Could you be more precise about where that control is located? I can't find it in my KDE Control Center.
I'm using KDE 3.4.2
I guess what Jon meant was KDE Control>Sound System>General panel uncheck "Enable Sound System." One caveat though, it may be necessary to configure the specific KDE app as well. For example, I use Amarok to play media files and I had to configure the sound engine to "aKode" from aRts to prevent artsd from being started by Amarok. -- Arun Khan (knura at yahoo dot com) In specifications, Murphy's Law supersedes Ohm's.