Randy McMurchy wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 05/13/06 17:09 CST: > >> I had not checked into it, but I was getting a notice of aRts failure on >> bootup, however I was able to get sound output. > > I didn't get sound output from the what was supposed to be a startup > sound (and has always worked in the past). Yes, ALSA is configured > correctly. And I got the nasty aRTS message at startup as well. > > What is interesting though, is Thunderbird will correctly play a > custom .wav file when new mail is detected (me saying: Hey, you > have new mail, dude!). > > No sound at KDE exit either, which has always been there in the > past.
I did have to go into the settings (Control Center, Sound & Multimedia, System Notifications, Player Settings) and set Use the KDE sound system. I admit that I haven't had to do that in the past. >> In any case, I reran my kdelibs script without the >> --enable-fast-malloc=full switch and I don't have the failure >> notification. Sound works fine, including startup. > > In that case, I think things are better when not using the switch. > Did sound work at startup for you Bruce, when you received the > aRTS message? When I received the message, startup sounds didn't work, but I did go into one of the screens and was able to play a test message. I also was able to play through aplay. >> In any case, removing the switch won't hurt anything and is easy enough >> to do. >> >> Thoughts? > > I agree that if removing the switch makes the error message go away > and nobody yet has confirmed that the switch actually does what the > book says it does, removing it is prudent. Consider it done. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
