I'm still searching for a fix to the system sound mystery. The silence is
deafening. Anybody got ideas!
After installation of Mandrake 7.2 (I come from the RedHat world) and
KDE2.0pre I find everything ticking along fine except "system" sound. All
other sound functions work fine -- within KDE and outside of it.
1. Kmedia player works fine and plays .wavs and songs and etc. under KDE2
2. gtv mp3 players works fine within KDE2
3. cdplayer works fine within KDE2
4. when browsing files in Konqueror, I can point at a .wav file and the
.wav player will pop up and player it.
... so -- KDE and Mandrake proper saw and installed the sound card, but
*system* sounds are dead. (BTW -- when I choose GNOME as the GUI, *their*
system sounds work fine)
I've worked through the system control menus:
1. on the sound server page, aRts is checked to be on at startup (I've
checked it and unchecked it several times, rebooting after each change)
2. 250msecs is selected ("comfortable" -- whatever that's supposed to mean)
3. Nothing else on that page (sound server setup) is checked
4. In LookNFeel I have worked through System Notifications and checked the
sound boxes and assigned a .wav file to every system function (pointing to
files in /usr/share/sound/*.wav).
sowadayathink? Thanks!
Mike
