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kharan5876
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 Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 10:06 pm Post subject: Audio problems with Kde3.4 |
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My sound card uses the intel8x0 driver.
I was having trouble getting alsa setup but I finally got it to work. I emerged the alsa drivers instead of using the kernel modules and edited my configuration file manually because alsaconf would screw it up. I have tested it by playing an mp3 with alsaplayer in console mode and it works great. So at least this is not a driver issue.
The only problem is Kde still cannot play sounds. I went to the Control Center->Sound & Multimedia->Sound System and it would give me an error message. Then i would goto the hardware tab and for the audio devices nothing would be listed except autodetect. Attempting to test sound and midi would not work.
After that I emerged arts and recompiled kde with the arts USE flag. Now I have a few devices in my hardware tab (including ALSA) but trying to test sound still does not work.
Could it possibly be something with the ways arts is configured or something else? I noticed some people saying you don't even need arts but it seemed to bring me a step up. Also I still don't have any midi devices listed. Where can you get those? I'd like to have midi playback.
I am at a loss and cannot figure out what to do. Thank you all for your efforts. |
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drutten
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| Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 4:56 am Post subject: |
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Can you still play sounds with alsaplay from an xterm or konsole when logged in to kde?
You don't need arts anymore, make sure you have alsa in your useflags and not arts.
Try emerge -eDvp kde to see if there's any packages compiled with arts and not alsa support.
Recompile those packages. |
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kharan5876
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| Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 5:06 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Can you still play sounds with alsaplay from an xterm or konsole when logged in to kde? |
Yes
I have alsa in my USE flags.
I will try removing arts and its USE flag and then recompiling kde without it. |
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kharan5876
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| Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 4:32 pm Post subject: |
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Ok I umerged arts and added the -arts USE flag to make.conf. Then I unmerged kde, cleaned out its dependencies and reemerged it. After that I did a emerge --update --deep --newuse world
Now I am back to the problems I had before. When opening sound system in the control center I get this error message:
| Quote: | Unable to start the sound server to retreive possible sound I/O methods.
Only Automatic detection will be available. |
At least Amarok works and i can play mp3s, just cannot get kde's sound system to work.
Does anyone know how to go about fixing this or what the possible causes could be? |
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carpman
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| Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 10:14 pm Post subject: |
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Hello, i have same problem 
Can play sounds via console but kde does not appear to be to see alsa?
Going to control panel sounds it comes up with error:
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Unable to start the sound server to retrieve possible sound I/O method
Only automatic detection will be available
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gentooBiH
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| Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 11:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Same problem here, can play audio from XMMS, MPlayer, Gaim, actually on most applications but not KDE sounds and I cannot play flash media sounds in my browser. I'm using Gentoo on AMD64 and Firefox 32-bit. Could these two problems be related? |
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gentooBiH
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| Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 2:41 pm Post subject: |
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I finally solved the problem. For some reason, libogg was not emerged during the initial instalation. So, first,
this will install the libogg library as well as add ogg USE flag. After this, you need to recompile packages to use new USE flag
| Code: | | #emerge -Nu --deep world |
ATTENTION: this might take a while, you could see what will be recompiled with
| Code: | | #emerge -Nupv --deep world |
After this, you only need to restart KDE and your sound will work.
As for no sound in flash animations, problem, it is not related to no sounds in KDE problem. It might have something to do with dualty, still not sure, checking.
Also, no sound in Skype is separete problem, still no solution there.
Hope this helped. |
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jwagner26
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| Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 2:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | I finally solved the problem. For some reason, libogg was not emerged during the initial instalation. So, first,
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#emerge libogg
this will install the libogg library as well as add ogg USE flag. After this, you need to recompile packages to use new USE flag
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Thanks. I had to install libvorbis as well and set the vorbis flag, but that did the trick. |
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vf1sveritech
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| Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 4:38 am Post subject: |
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I am having the same problem, but I already have all the ogg stuff emerged, libogg, libvorbis. Had oggvorbis in my use flags already. I added the ogg useflag of just 'ogg' and typed
| Code: | | emerge -pv --deep world |
and nothing wanted anything new accept for media-libs/imlib wanting bzip2, that was the only green useflag. Altho i am updating world right now cause its been over a month, so there were alot of things needing updated. Have to wait til morning to see if that actually works.
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