Sound problems

[Anne Wilson]

On Saturday 19 May 2007, david walcroft wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Thursday 17 May 2007, david walcroft wrote:
> >> Anne Wilson wrote:
> >>> On Tuesday 15 May 2007, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> >>>> david walcroft wrote:
> >>>>> I have got the sound going via alsamixer but have found the problem
> >>>>> lies in KDE,testing the sound in control centre/system notifications.
> >>>>> works but not with progamme sound i:e "minimize" "close window"
> >>>>
> >>>> Not really relevant, but my experience is the opposite.
> >>>> I had no sound at all until I went to Control Centre=>Sound &
> >>>> Multimedia =>Sound System , where I found "Enable the Sound System"
> >>>> was off. After turning it on, and setting the "Auto-suspend if idle"
> >>>> to 0 seconds, I get noises all the time, to the annoyance of others in
> >>>> the room.
> >>>
> >>> I haven't been following this thread, but this statement caught my eye.
> >>> I always set "Auto-suspend if idle" to 1 second, and found it helpful.
> >>> (This from the time when I first discovered that aRts hogs the system
> >>> unless you do this.)  HTH
> >>>
> >>> Anne
> >>
> >> I think I've found a problem with this error
> >>
> >> "Impossible to start aRts with realtime priority because artswrapper is
> >> missing or disabled"
> >>
> >> How do I restart artswrapper,it's in /usr/bin.
> >
> > In a root console,
> >
> > /usr/bin/artswrapper
> >
> > I would think
> >
> > Anne
>
> Okay I tried that,all it did was to kill all sounds - mplayer,soundcard
> detection,etc.so I stopped artswrapper and every thing works except KDE
> sounds [KDE starting up,KDE window opens]
>
> Thanks   david

FWIW I believe that 3.5 KDE will not be using aRts, which will be a blessing 
to all :-)

Anne
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