Anthony Puglisi wrote:
1) installed anything from the "kde" tree having to do with sound
(some of the kde sound files did not install -- using fink commander
in this case is a Godsend because it's easier to read the package list
efficiently). I specifically call your attention to a package called
"kde-extra-sounds" that doesn't seem to me to be really extra if you
want all the KDE bells and whistles, at least according to my
experiences. Make sure you have the right version of this package.
As far as I can see I have all the sound packages installed
2) reinstalled the stable version of esound -- the unstable version
doesn't play nicely with the kde unstable version
I have esound 0.2.35.8 installed which is the listed binary version.
3) put an "exec esd" line in my .xinitrc file -- for some reason
esound wasn't starting up every time I started up kde, neither in the
stable nor in the unstable version. Without doing this, KDE seems to
be whimsical about it all -- some days it feels like letting esound
start and some days it doesn't. The extra line is insurance.
I did and it does
4) when editing the "sound and multimedia" options in kde (the wrench
icon in the panel) I selected "Apple Core Audio" as my I/O method.
I do not have this option available in my sound and multimedia
options. There is no selection for I/O method.
I hope this helps. Depending on what kind of system you have, one or
all of these tricks could help you. I've used them on both a Powermac
G5 and a Powerbook G4 -- I had the same problems with sound on both
machines, making me doubt it's a hardware conflict. If your "Sound and
Multimedia" options menu will not give you more options than
"Autodetect", there might have been a problem when you installed the
"bundle-kde" convenience package. It should at least give you an
option for "No audio" along with that, if not some sort of "Apple
Audio" option.
What specific package would apply to sound only? Perhaps I could
reinstall that one.
If you're frustrated, go back to the stable version of KDE if you're
using the unstable version if sound is important to you.
I hope this sheds some light on the subject. If it doesn't help you,
maybe someone else? My experiences are limited to two machines running
Mac OS 10.3 Sound in both Gnome and KDE is difficult to get going, I
at least know that!
It seems that sound works according to the version of KDE. I have no
Gnome issue with sound but of the 4 versions of KDE that I've
installed and updated, only one has had functioning sound. I was able
to select "use enlightened sound daemon" on that one- 3.2.
Thanks for the help in any case.
Brian
I rebuilt the packages as described and got the "enlightened sound
daemon" option but still no sound so I tried to rebuild
kde-extra-sounds. I kept getting check sum errors and would choose the
"delete and download again" option. After the rebuild I was unable to
start kde and got a "DCOPServer error at the splash screen and then
quitting. I removed all kde packages again and ran "sudo apt-get
update; sudo apt-get install bundle-kde-ssl" which seemed to install
fine. I still can't start kde with the same DCOPServer error. I can
run a few kde apps in Gnome but with missing functionality in some
(konqueror) and others won't start at all (koffice apps). I'd like to
do a clean reinstall of bundle-kde-ssl, which I thought that I had
done. Any help out there?
Thanks,
Brian
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