No Sound after upgrading KDE

2004-09-25 Thread R. W. 
I recently upgraded to KDE 3.3 (under FreeBSD 5.2.1) and the sound 
stopped working properly. I hear the tune as KDE starts up, but then 
there is no sound after that. Multimedia applications still work 
properly under XFce, it's just KDE.
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Re: No Sound after upgrading KDE

2004-09-25 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst 
On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 21:37:06 +0100
R. W. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I recently upgraded to KDE 3.3 (under FreeBSD 5.2.1) and the sound 
 stopped working properly. I hear the tune as KDE starts up, but then 
 there is no sound after that. Multimedia applications still work 
 properly under XFce, it's just KDE.

Maybe artsd gets started along with KDE and grabs control of your sound
card.
You can either try to deactivate it - if it turns out to be guilty - or
try to make your apps work with it.

Kind regards,
Benjamin

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Re: No Sound after upgrading KDE

2004-09-25 Thread Christopher Nehren 
On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 21:37 +0100, R. W. wrote:
 I recently upgraded to KDE 3.3 (under FreeBSD 5.2.1) and the sound 
 stopped working properly. I hear the tune as KDE starts up, but then 
 there is no sound after that. Multimedia applications still work 
 properly under XFce, it's just KDE.

I suspect that you may be seeing the same issue that I do when I start
KDE. Next time you start KDE (after freshly rebooting the system or
proceeding from a setup where you know sound works properly), open a
console login somewhere and run the mixer command. Note its output: what
are the values for the various devices? I've seen that, after starting
KDE 3.3, all of my mixer devices are set to 0 -- thus muted. They're not
broken; you just need to manually reset them. The two important ones (at
least with the sound cards that I've used on FreeBSD) are mixer and pcm,
though cd may be important if you have your CD-ROM drive hooked up to
your sound card, but I don't know for sure as I've never used that
configuration. On my machine, with my Creative SBLive! PCI sound card
(as supported by snd_emu10k1), here are the default, working settings:

Mixer vol  is currently set to  75:75
Mixer pcm  is currently set to  75:75
Mixer speaker  is currently set to  75:75
Mixer line is currently set to   0:0
Mixer mic  is currently set to   0:0
Mixer cd   is currently set to  75:75
Mixer rec  is currently set to   0:0
Mixer ogainis currently set to  75:75
Mixer line1is currently set to   0:0
Mixer phin is currently set to   0:0
Mixer phoutis currently set to   0:0
Mixer videois currently set to  75:75


Note that, as the manual for mixer states, not all devices may be
present in your configuration, and you may have more devices than I list
here.


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