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 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 KDE than just about anything else ever written for the entire > project. And you don't need it anymore - alsa now does everything arts > ever could, and more > > alan > >
Well, wanting to be up with the times, I removed the arts USE flag and did a emerge -uvDN world. 12 hours later the update is done. I have no sound where before it was working fine. I can play a CD. I get no sound from anything else. Is it possible that I NEED arts for mine to work? Any ideas? Dale :-) :-) :-)