On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 07:45:42AM -0400, Jonathan Sailor wrote:
> I don't know how to get it to sound like the welcome sound it's
> supposed to. However, they're probably an option in the KDE Control
> Center to turn it off. Look for KDE_Logon or something like that.
> Sorry I can't be more specific, but I use Gnome.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Vincent
> Danen
> Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2001 3:01 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Sound, printing and cdrw
>
> > And the sound thing--when I start kde I hear that awful static
> > noise. How does one get sound up and running?
>
> I get this to and it would be real nice to know how to get rid of
> it... =)
I've had the exact same problem ever since I was using Linux/PPC 2000
Q4. I didn't figure out the problem till just a while ago. It appears
that the sound system (arts) is not switching the endiness of the sound
files before it plays them. Thus you get static. This is apparently
fixed in KDE 2.2.
To get rid of the static from the startup and shutdown go into the KDE
ControlCenter. Under LookNFeel go to System Notifications. Then expand
out KDE System Notifications. Expand out KDE is Starting Up and KDE is
Exiting. Uncheck the Play Sound Boxes. There are other System
Notifications that play sound here and you may desire to turn them off
as well.
Alternately you can check the Use external player box and put in
/usr/bin/play and it will play the sounds. However, sometimes it's not
terribly timely with playing them. At least for me the startup sound
plays a couple minutes into running KDE. But it will work till we get
KDE 2.2.
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