KDE3.5 no sound

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Hal-61 · Post by **Hal-61** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 7:22 am

Hi all,

I've just installed Gentoo, i had lots of problems on the way probbably because it was almost twee years since the last time i've worked with Linux

. The problem is, i don't get any sound from the KDE applications. When i start from the KDE desktop a non kde application (ex. rt2) i can hear a perfect sound...
I had also a problem with kmix, the lay out wasn't showing the channels of the soundcard (SB audigy). After re-emerging kdemultimedia this problem was solved. Last night i re-emerged kdebase (you never know) but this didn't solve anything.

tnx

badnews · Post by **badnews** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 8:52 am

Did you enable the kde sound system ? Using aRts ?

vasy · Post by **vasy** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 1:09 pm

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emerge kdemultimedia-arts

pholthau · Post by **pholthau** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 3:50 pm

If you don't like arts (or to test sound) you could use another playback program. I for example use mplayer.

Control Center -> Sound & Multimedia -> System Notifications -> Player Settings -> Use an external player

d2_racing · Post by **d2_racing** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 4:56 pm

Go inside kmix and check for to unmute your channels.

mark_alec · Post by **mark_alec** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 4:40 am

Moved from Installing Gentoo to Multimedia.

Hal-61 · Post by **Hal-61** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 7:46 pm

badnews wrote:Did you enable the kde sound system ? Using aRts ?

When i select the sound system i've get this error :

" Unable to start the sound server to retrieve possible sound I/O methods.
Only automatic detection will be available."

=> The soundsystem doesn't start. (probably the problem but why??

)

pholthau wrote:If you don't like arts (or to test sound) you could use another playback program. I for example use mplayer.

Control Center -> Sound & Multimedia -> System Notifications -> Player Settings -> Use an external player

When i use a non kde application the sound works fine (xine) and kmix is doing its job, there is even a syncronisation between alsamixer and kmix

ronvenema · Post by **ronvenema** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 3:13 am

I just went through the same thing, I had to reinstall kde with alsa arts vorbis enabled in the USE flags.

Hal-61 · Post by **Hal-61** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 7:42 am

ronvenema wrote:I just went through the same thing, I had to reinstall kde with alsa arts vorbis enabled in the USE flags.

I have a bad feeling that this could be correct, last night i emerged kdemultimedia-arts (tnx vasy) to do this i needed also to re-emerge kdelibs with "arts" flag enabled in USE (and bels start ringing), some things where working now, but still no sound from kde (soundserver starts now).

ronvenema, did you unmerge kde before you re-emerged it ?? think this would be the"cleanest" way to do it.

ronvenema · Post by **ronvenema** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 4:00 am

I also found out that you can't unmerge kde-meta sooooo, I ended up doing a complete new install using the individual kde packages but this time I had the correct USE flags set and the sound works correctly. I think I'm going to change my motto to "Gentoo, it's an adventure!"

GLTY

Hal-61 · Post by **Hal-61** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 9:43 am

I've unmerge the KDE packages manualy, remerge KDE and guess what... still the same problem

...
Even things that where working before doesn't work anymore now...
I give it another shot today, with a fresh install as ronvenema did, probably the problems started here with a bad configured kernel, kde dit some settings that i guess still interfere.

I can't recall that the last install of Gentoo i did was this difficult (on the same PC 18 months ago) , but anyway this is fun, if i would choose the easy way i can use a number of liveCD's like Ubuntu or Suse and set up a fine system in no time but this lacks the "Gentoo feeling", gives just more satisfaction. May be i should make this my motto...

Hal-61 · Post by **Hal-61** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 4:15 pm

Just before i planned to hit the Enter key to deïnstall KDE, i found something posted from miketones :

"emerge --newuse --deep --ask world"

So nothing to loose, i tried this and guess, seven hours later there was a nice tune playing when i started kde.
I've noticed that only kdeutils was re-emerged (probably i forgot to re-emerge this one last night) all other files where libs, xorg, and others....
So i can agree with miketones "alsa, arts and vorbis" are really necesary in the USE var when you set up Gentoo.
Learned a lot from Gentoo last week

Thanks to you all for helping me with this...problem solved (i think

)

Red Knuckles · Post by **Red Knuckles** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 6:53 pm

I'm having same problem/error. I had alsa and vorbis enabled in '/etc/make.conf' and sound configured in kernel with sound working except in KDE. I changed '-arts' to 'arts' and then ran 'emerge -uavDN world' [which I'd just finished yesterday with only one failure 'qt'] and it is emerging 249 packages mostly KDE and some other audio packages like MPlayer. Will see what happens.

Edit: One can also enable some other sound player in KDE I currently have '/usr/bin/mplayer' in 'Settings>Sound & Multimedia>System Notifications>Player Settings>Use an external player'.

drseergio · Post by **drseergio** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 2:14 pm

ronvenema wrote:I also found out that you can't unmerge kde-meta sooooo, I ended up doing a complete new install using the individual kde packages but this time I had the correct USE flags set and the sound works correctly. I think I'm going to change my motto to "Gentoo, it's an adventure!"

GLTY

Oh yes you can. Just do an unmerge and then depclean like this:

EXAMPLE: (DON NOT TRY THIS)

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emerge -C kdebase-meta
emerge --depclean

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