On Saturday 19 May 2007, david walcroft wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Thursday 17 May 2007, david walcroft wrote: > >> Anne Wilson wrote: > >>> On Tuesday 15 May 2007, Timothy Murphy wrote: > >>>> david walcroft wrote: > >>>>> I have got the sound going via alsamixer but have found the problem > >>>>> lies in KDE,testing the sound in control centre/system notifications. > >>>>> works but not with progamme sound i:e "minimize" "close window" > >>>> > >>>> Not really relevant, but my experience is the opposite. > >>>> I had no sound at all until I went to Control Centre=>Sound & > >>>> Multimedia =>Sound System , where I found "Enable the Sound System" > >>>> was off. After turning it on, and setting the "Auto-suspend if idle" > >>>> to 0 seconds, I get noises all the time, to the annoyance of others in > >>>> the room. > >>> > >>> I haven't been following this thread, but this statement caught my eye. > >>> I always set "Auto-suspend if idle" to 1 second, and found it helpful. > >>> (This from the time when I first discovered that aRts hogs the system > >>> unless you do this.) HTH > >>> > >>> Anne > >> > >> I think I've found a problem with this error > >> > >> "Impossible to start aRts with realtime priority because artswrapper is > >> missing or disabled" > >> > >> How do I restart artswrapper,it's in /usr/bin. > > > > In a root console, > > > > /usr/bin/artswrapper > > > > I would think > > > > Anne > > Okay I tried that,all it did was to kill all sounds - mplayer,soundcard > detection,etc.so I stopped artswrapper and every thing works except KDE > sounds [KDE starting up,KDE window opens] > > Thanks david FWIW I believe that 3.5 KDE will not be using aRts, which will be a blessing to all :-) Anne
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