Am Sonntag, 8. Januar 2006 13:53 schrieb Holly Bostick: > Marc Schlienger schreef: > > Hi, I've installed kde3.4.3 with arts on my amd64 machine. Alsa is > > working fine. But arts works only partially. All notification sound > > doesn't work. Also I don't get sound when logging in. But, for > > example, amarok works with the arts driver. Is this a known bug? What > > can I do? > > > > Regards Marc > > Is aRTs set to use ALSA? kcontrol (KDE Control Center)=> Sound and > Multimedia=> Sound System=> Hardware Tab => Select the Audio device > drop-down (choose 'Alsa'). >
Yes. It should also work with automatic detection. But it doesn't work in either cases. > Secondly, you do have system sounds turned on, yes? Assuming that the > backend is properly configured, in order to have sounds in KDE you need > the following settings in kcontrol: > > Sound and Multimedia=> Sound System=> Sound System=> General Tab=> > "Enable the Sound System" must be checked (system sounds are played > through aRTS, and that is the sound system this checkbox enables); > This is also set. And when I push the Test-Sound-Button here I get no sound. > Sound and Multimedia=> System Notifications. When the "Event Source" > drop-down in this dialog is set to KDE System Notifications, you need to > make sure that: > > 1) valid sounds are associated with the various events (if the test of > the sound doesn't play, well, it's not going to play in KDE either), and > > 2) The Quick Control, when the "Apply to all events" checkbox is > checked, is not set to "Turn Off all Sounds". > This is also all set to correct values. > Hope this helps, > Holly If it was that simple there will be no problem. Regards Marc -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list