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 soun

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 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,

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 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 >>

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]

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 PR

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 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 (~kde-base/kdemult

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 2877

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 > w

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 >> whi

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

2007-06-21 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 someth

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

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

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 alsa-dr

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

2007-06-21 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: > > I was doing some more checking around. I forgot about this package > that failed to emerge. Here is the error: > >> > > 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

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? >>> >>

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 a

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

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. Remov

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 command

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 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 th