kde 3.5 and sound issues

mystified · l33t Joined: 14 Feb 2004 Posts: 771

Since upgrading to kde 3.5 I have no sound except the kde sounds. A friend of mine suggested that arts is hogging all the sound and not letting other programs use it. I'm not sure how to fix this or if this is a bug in KDE. Any suggestions?

Thanks!

Epyon · l33t Joined: 11 Sep 2003 Posts: 754 Location: NJ, USA

disable arts and use an external player for knotify.

KejPi · Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 6:11 pm Post subject:

Hi,
I had the similar problem. After upgrade to KDE 3.5 (yesterday) I had KDE sounds but amarok was not able to play OGG vorbis files (mp3 was playing). But if I tried to play OGG vorbis using ogg123 then there was no problem. I found out that in KDE 3.5 there in no akode ebuild I had for KDE 3.4. But there is a new ebuild artsplugin-akode. So after unmerging of akode and merging of artsplugin-akode everything works fine :-)

Regards
Petr

mystified · l33t Joined: 14 Feb 2004 Posts: 771

KejPi · Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 7:48 pm Post subject:

And did you try to logout from KDE?

You can change you player for knotify easily by Control Center -> Sound & Multimedia -> System notification (I don't know the name exactly as I don't have english KDE) -> there is a button at the bottom like "Change player". You can change the player in the dialog.

mystified · l33t Joined: 14 Feb 2004 Posts: 771

I still don't understand how to disable arts.

KejPi · Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2005 6:09 pm Post subject:

I think you can easily disable arts in control center -> Sound and multimedia -> Sound system -> disable.
But to be honest I'm not sure if KDE sound apps will work.

The better way I think is to find where is a problem.

Epyon · l33t Joined: 11 Sep 2003 Posts: 754 Location: NJ, USA

Go to the control center in kde. Then go into sound and multimedia -> sound system. Uncheck enable sound system.

Arts will then not run unless a program specifically needs it (like kaboodle). Then you can go to system notifications and then click player settings. You can choose an external player like sox or alsaplayer or something.

mystified · l33t Joined: 14 Feb 2004 Posts: 771

Thanks, I disabled arts and still have the same problem. Any ideas?

supun · n00b Joined: 27 Nov 2002 Posts: 28

Not sure if this will help, but I was having all types of problems with arts when I went from 3.4 to 3.5. Even after rebuilding arts, amarok would complain it could not start arts ( even with a "amarok --engine arts" ). And if I tried to restart the Sound System in the control panel, it would count up to 100%, then start over.

I noticed when things were being build, that "gcc" was including the path to 3.4 for libraries and such. So I move "/usr/kde/3.4" to "/usr/kde/3.4.back" and rebuilt arts, kde-base, and kde-libs. After that arts works perfectly.

I don't know if I need to re-build all three, arts may have been all that was needed.
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mystified · l33t Joined: 14 Feb 2004 Posts: 771

well I elimated arts as the problem by removing arts and remerging kdemultimedia with an -arts use flag. Still no sound when playing cds. Only on apps like gaim and xchat. Any other suggestions? A friend said it could be a problem with onboard sound and that I need to go to a soundcard.

mystified · l33t Joined: 14 Feb 2004 Posts: 771

Anybody else willing to take a shot at this?

abacker · n00b Joined: 28 Sep 2004 Posts: 74

Not sure, but I'm having a similar problem after upgrading to 3.5 with the new kde libs. I haven't tried re-emerging amarok though, so I'm not sure if that will help.

I get the standard KDE sounds, but amaroK complains about something else (on windows now or I would look at the error again) and says I should run some command prompts and other things. I haven't re-emerged arts, but I did recompile alsa because of the upgrade to 2.6.14.

I am running an nforce2 chipset (Asus A7N8X MB), and this one of my two remaining problems after upgrading. The other is a probably unrelated X shutdown issue.

- Andrew
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JOR · n00b Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 22 Location: Sweden

Well... I also have humongous problems with arts after upgrading to 3.5

I discovered that I have two versions of KDE in my system :-(

, because of having two versions of arts made the system a little confused.
I believe that it is because I have not unmasked kwin in my packages.keyword file.

When unmerging arts-3.4.3 the xmms got happy, but amarok still complains.

Crap, I have to clean up the system now, and I do not really know how to do it :-(

edit:
Well, after unmerging amarok and reemerging it back did it. But isn't there a more convenient solution than to unmerge ALL remaining 3.4.*-packages end reemerge them in order to get them back to 3.5 ???
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Darknight · Guru Joined: 26 Jan 2004 Posts: 485 Location: Italy

dschaefer78 · n00b Joined: 30 Aug 2004 Posts: 27

Hi,

If you can't play ogg and mp3 file with artsplay you can emerge the new version of Akode 2.0 RC1.
I hope it will solve your problem. By me on kde 3.5 final it worked !

Bye...