kde sound problem

mathfeel · l33t Joined: 03 Aug 2004 Posts: 700

First of all, alsa is working as I can verify that xmms plays music just fine.

But kde has no sound, because the sound server wouldn't start with the following error:

shazam75 · Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 8:19 am Post subject:

In KDE, go to the Control Centre, then "Sound and Multiliedia", then "Sound System" and make sure there is a check against "Enable the sound System"

Cheers
Shelton.

mathfeel · l33t Joined: 03 Aug 2004 Posts: 700

Vulpes_Vulpes · Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 8:58 am Post subject:

Just make sure the soundsystem is not enabled. I also use ALSA with -arts in my USE for KDE. Non the less I will get an error message when I go to the "Sound System" tab in Control Center. Also check if you have OSS emulation with ALSA.

Good luck!

shazam75 · Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 9:00 am Post subject:

I posted this on another thread - may help u ?

artsd
Access to the sound hardware resources is controlled by artsd, the aRts daemon. This allows different applications to simultaneously send requests to the server, where they can be mixed together and played. Without a centralized sound server a single application using a sound device would prevent other applications from using it.
To use aRts there should be one and only one copy of artsd running. It is typically run when KDE starts up if it is enabled in the KControl Sound Server panel.
The program accepts the following arguments:
artsd [-n-p-N-W n] [-a audiomethod-r sampling rate-b bits-d-D devicename-F fragments-S size-s seconds-m appName] [-h-A-v-l level]
-r sampling rate
Set sampling rate to use.
-h
Display command usage.
-n
Enable network transparency.
-p port
Set TCP port to use (implies -n).
-u
Public, no authentication (dangerous).
-d
Enable full duplex operation.
-D device name
Specify audio device (usually /dev/dsp).
-F fragments
Set number of fragments.
-S size
Set fragment size, in bytes.
-s seconds
Set server auto-suspend time, in seconds. A value of zero disables auto-suspend.
-m appName
Specify the name of an application to be used to display error, warning, and informational messages. If you are running KDE you can use the artsmessage utility for this.
-N
Increase the size of network buffers to a value suitable for running over a 10 mbps LAN. This is equivalent to using the -w 5 option (see below).
-w n
When running artsd over a network connection to another host you typically want to use a larger buffer size to avoid dropouts. ARts provides applications with a suggested minimum buffer size. Without this option the default size is based on the fragment size * fragment count. Using this option you can increase the size from the default by a factor of n.
-l level
Set information level - 3 (quiet), 2 (warnings), 1 (info), 0 (debug).
-v
Display version level.
In most cases simply running artsd will suffice.

shazam75 · Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 9:10 am Post subject:

you may also want to try and run

mathfeel · l33t Joined: 03 Aug 2004 Posts: 700

shazam75 · Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 9:38 am Post subject:

mathfeel · l33t Joined: 03 Aug 2004 Posts: 700

wegrzyn · n00b Joined: 27 Nov 2003 Posts: 22 Location: Boston, MA

I believe you need to have 'arts' enabled when you build kde to get it to work. You said that you used -ARTS; that means you don't want to have arts.

You can quickly find out by doing:

equery uses kdelibs

If you see a line like this:

+ + arts : Adds support for aRts: the KDE sound daemon

It is the "rightmost" + sign that is important - if it is there you have arts compiled in. If you see '-', you don't. Just beware there are a number of kde modules that have arts flags. Another import one is 'arts'...check it out by entering

equery uses arts

If you want to see all the packages that use the 'arts' flag enter

equery hasuse arts

(If you don't have equery on your computer do a: emerge gentoolkit).

Good luck...