On Monday 26 February 2007 22:02, b.n. wrote: > Alan McKinnon ha scritto: > > On Sunday 25 February 2007, Mick wrote: > >> Hi All, > >> > >> It seems that when Amarok is playing, all system sounds are put on > >> hold. Once I close Amarok then all system (KDE) notifications > >> suddenly sound at once! > >> > >> How do I figure out what's wrong and how should I fix it? > > > > One word: > > > > arts > > > > It's an abomination that should not be suffered to live. Disable it, > > switch it off, consign it to hell for all eternity. > > You can also compile all of kde switching off the "alsa" use flag.
Did you mean to say "arts"? I thought that this was required to be able to play KDE system notifications? I checked again my settings. I have enabled the Sound System in Kcontrol, but have set it to use alsa. However, under System Notifications I used to have /usr/bin/aplay as the external sound player (under Audio Player settings). Since aplay was hard masked a long time ago, I switched back to 'KDE sound system' which I believe is using Arts. I recall dmix playing nicely with arts by mixing system notification sounds with alsa. From your messages I assume that although alsa deals with software mixing all on its own it does not mix in nicely with Arts. Since aplay is hard masked, what external player should I use? What other options are there to be able to play system notifications, if I want to keep alsa? Thanks for your responses. -- Regards, Mick
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