No ARTSD Output

Raftysworld · Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 11:52 pm Post subject: No ARTSD Output

Hey all,

I'm using KDE 3.5 beta at the moment but this problem also occurred when i used 3.4.2. Sound works fully except for artsd. When I use an external alsaplayer for the notifications, they work, but arts is not. It worked when i initially installed kde but I'm not sure what changed. There is no error message, just no sound. Any ideas?
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deepwave · Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2005 1:33 am Post subject:

Try removing the .kde folders, might help. Also checking your sound server setting in the control centre, but I assume you've tried that...

What messages get displayed when running artsd in console?
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Raftysworld · Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2005 2:29 am Post subject:

I've done your two pieces of advice already to no avail, but i did find this when running it from the konsole:
When running artsd from the konsole it appears to run normally...

deepwave · Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2005 3:37 am Post subject:

Hmm... sounds like you are missing an plugin for artsd.

Are you using split ebuilds for KDE?
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Raftysworld · Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2005 4:23 am Post subject:

No, monolithic.
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Vortex375 · Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2005 10:50 am Post subject:

You have to make sure arts is compiled with the correct useflags. There should be an "ogg" or "vorbis" useflag somewhere.

However, I would suggest using an external player. "play" from the sox package is a quite good alternative for this job, and it runs much faster (with artsd when I click a button that should generate a noise, I hear the noise 4 seconds later :roll:

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Raftysworld · Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2005 2:30 pm Post subject:

I'm using an external player right now (alsaplayer), I'm mostly trying to solve this problem for the sake of understanding why something isn't working as it should be. Take a look at this output:

Vortex375 · Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2005 3:14 pm Post subject:

Indeed a strange problem but you are not alone. My arts won't produce any sound either.

I just don't care because I disabled arts in the control center and I'm not using it.

I heard the development of arts has been stopped anyways. :roll: