Re: [gentoo-user] sound (?) but no sound

2007-06-22 Thread Elias Probst
On Friday 22 June 2007 04:53:36 Dale wrote: Well, I read through the how to, I had all that done already, I just never had removed the arts USE flag. The sounds works but it is slow to respond and sometimes it just doesn't catch up at all. This is mostly while switching desktops or something

Re: [gentoo-user] sound (?) but no sound

2007-06-22 Thread Dale
Elias Probst wrote: On Friday 22 June 2007 04:53:36 Dale wrote: Well, I read through the how to, I had all that done already, I just never had removed the arts USE flag. The sounds works but it is slow to respond and sometimes it just doesn't catch up at all. This is mostly while

Re: [gentoo-user] sound (?) but no sound

2007-06-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Elias Probst wrote: Go to: - KDE Controlcenter - Sound Multimedia - Sound-System Uncheck the box [x] Enable the sound system If artsd is still running, kill the process. OK. That was already done as well. However, I killed the process and went there to hit the

Re: [gentoo-user] sound (?) but no sound

2007-06-22 Thread Mick
On Friday 22 June 2007 13:20, Dale wrote: OK. That was already done as well. However, I killed the process and went there to hit the test sound button. I went back and artsd was running again plus a new one. [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # ps aux | grep arts dale 15246 2.2 1.3 28776 13816

Re: [gentoo-user] sound (?) but no sound

2007-06-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 22 June 2007, Dale wrote: I'm not using noatun, it appears that that is what KDE is using or something.  See this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # equery depends kdemultimedia [ Searching for packages depending on kdemultimedia... ] kde-base/noatun-plugins-3.5.7

Re: [gentoo-user] sound (?) but no sound

2007-06-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: It would appear that you have installed the kdemultimedia package. That's a monlithic one, and it WILL install noatun, which requires arts. I also have kdemultimedia installed, but not noatun. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ -- eix -I kdemultimedia [I] kde-base/kdemultimedia

Re: [gentoo-user] sound (?) but no sound

2007-06-22 Thread Elias Probst
On Friday 22 June 2007 15:38:49 Alex Schuster wrote: Alan McKinnon writes: It would appear that you have installed the kdemultimedia package. That's a monlithic one, and it WILL install noatun, which requires arts. I also have kdemultimedia installed, but not noatun. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~

Re: [gentoo-user] sound (?) but no sound

2007-06-22 Thread Mick
On Friday 22 June 2007 15:06, Dale wrote: If it wants to play more than one sound, it only plays one. One way I noticed this is if I put my mouse on the bottom where the desktop selection thing is then move the wheel, it only plays one sound, the first one then it can't play anymore for a

Re: [gentoo-user] sound (?) but no sound

2007-06-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: On Friday 22 June 2007, Alex Schuster wrote: Alan McKinnon writes: It would appear that you have installed the kdemultimedia package. That's a monlithic one, and it WILL install noatun, which requires arts. I also have kdemultimedia installed, but not noatun.

Re: [gentoo-user] sound (?) but no sound

2007-06-22 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: On Friday 22 June 2007 13:20, Dale wrote: OK. That was already done as well. However, I killed the process and went there to hit the test sound button. I went back and artsd was running again plus a new one. [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # ps aux | grep arts dale 15246

Re: [gentoo-user] sound (?) but no sound

2007-06-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 22 June 2007, Alex Schuster wrote: Alan McKinnon writes: It would appear that you have installed the kdemultimedia package. That's a monlithic one, and it WILL install noatun, which requires arts. I also have kdemultimedia installed, but not noatun. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ -- eix

Re: [gentoo-user] sound (?) but no sound

2007-06-22 Thread Sabyasachi Ghosh
I usually disable the kde sound system and use a command line player (like aplay or mplayer) for the event notifications..seems to work fine with me.. On 6/19/07, Thierry de Coulon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've managed to emerge the gentoo base, X and KDE and all are running fine. My

Re: [gentoo-user] sound (?) but no sound

2007-06-22 Thread Elias Probst
On Friday 22 June 2007 16:38:35 Mick wrote: On Friday 22 June 2007 15:06, Dale wrote: If it wants to play more than one sound, it only plays one. One way I noticed this is if I put my mouse on the bottom where the desktop selection thing is then move the wheel, it only plays one sound, the

Re: [gentoo-user] sound (?) but no sound

2007-06-21 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 19 June 2007, Thierry de Coulon wrote: Everything has been compiled with the arts and oggvorbis flags, and I did an emerge -e word to ensure everything had been compiled with the actual flags. What am I missing? You are not missing anything, you

Re: [gentoo-user] sound (?) but no sound

2007-06-21 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 19 June 2007, Thierry de Coulon wrote: Everything has been compiled with the arts and oggvorbis flags, and I did an emerge -e word to ensure everything had been compiled with the actual flags. What am I missing? You are not missing

Re: [gentoo-user] sound (?) but no sound

2007-06-21 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: snip I was doing some more checking around. I forgot about this package that failed to emerge. Here is the error: snip Looks like it is looking for arts still. How do I get this to work? Thanks Dale :-) :-) Well, this appears to be making a bigger mess than it will

Re: [gentoo-user] sound (?) but no sound

2007-06-21 Thread Squall Liu
At the very first , make sure you have load your sound card driver .check it by [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [NVidia ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia HDA NVidia at 0xf500 irq 17 If you get no card found , reconfigure your kernel or install your

Re: [gentoo-user] sound (?) but no sound

2007-06-21 Thread Dale
Squall Liu wrote: At the very first , make sure you have load your sound card driver .check it by [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [NVidia ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia HDA NVidia at 0xf500 irq 17 If you get no card found ,

Re: [gentoo-user] sound (?) but no sound

2007-06-21 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Squall Liu wrote: At the very first , make sure you have load your sound card driver .check it by [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [NVidia ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia HDA NVidia at 0xf500 irq 17 If you get no card

Re: [gentoo-user] sound (?) but no sound

2007-06-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 19 June 2007, Thierry de Coulon wrote: Everything has been compiled with the arts and oggvorbis flags, and I did an emerge -e word to ensure everything had been compiled with the actual flags. What am I missing? You are not missing anything, you have something too much. Remove

Re: [gentoo-user] sound (?) but no sound

2007-06-20 Thread Randy Barlow
Alan McKinnon wrote: You are not missing anything, you have something too much. Remove arts from your USE, from package.use and emerge -uND world Then start fault finding from the start all over again :-) Seriously, that utter piece of trash called arts has caused more grief to KDE

Re: [gentoo-user] sound (?) but no sound

2007-06-19 Thread Elias Probst
On Tuesday 19 June 2007 19:20:22 Thierry de Coulon wrote: Everything has been compiled with the arts and oggvorbis flags, and I did an emerge -e word to ensure everything had been compiled with the actual flags. What am I missing? Thierry IMHO aRts isn't necessary any longer since there is

Re: [gentoo-user] sound (?) but no sound

2007-06-19 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Tuesday 19 Jun 2007 10:50:22 pm Thierry de Coulon wrote: What am I missing? Try logging out of KDE and get into a virtual console session. From there try to play a sound file using alsaplayer or play command may be? That will clear out any doubts of aRts playing spoil sport. If you don't

Re: [gentoo-user] sound (?) but no sound

2007-06-19 Thread Roy Wright
Thierry de Coulon wrote: Hello, However, I have no sound... What am I missing? While not gentoo specific, this page: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DebuggingSoundProblems has some good sound debugging info that helped me set up a kubuntu system. I did try most of the commands on