On Wednesday 14 Jan 2004 3:40 pm, Doug Roberts wrote: > > On Wednesday 14 January 2004 02:34, Doug Roberts wrote: > > > > On Friday 09 January 2004 19:07, Doug Roberts wrote: > > > > > Any other ideas? Anyone? > > > > > > > > Shot in the dark - > > > > > > > > Have you checked the aRts settings from kde's control center? > > > > You should have aRts start at bootup, running soundserver with > > > > realtime priority, but reduct the value in 'autosuspend if idle' > > > > to 1 sec. I did find that some things worked better for this - > > > > presumably forcing it to let go when otherwise it would hang on. > > > > > > > > Of course it may be a red herring, but anything's worth a try at > > > > this stage. > > > > > > > > Anne > > > > -- > > > > Registered Linux User No.293302 > > > > Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? > > > > > > HI again > > > > > > Sorry to take so long getting back to you, but I been a little > > > busy. > > > > > > When logged in as root I looked at aRTs settings in KDE control > > > center. aRTs was turned off, so I turned it back on and got this > > > error message when trying to apply the new settings. > > > > > > Something like this: > > > > > > "Error while initializing sound driver. > > > > > > device: default can't be opened for playback (No such file or > > > directory) > > > > > > The sound server will continue, using the null output device" > > > > > > I left the new settings in place and rebooted to see, on the off > > > chance, hoping maybe it would work. But no such luck. I can still > > > play a music CD through kscd, I can't get xmms to see the CD drive > > > atm..I'll play with that one later. > > > I did some investigating through the aRTs control....I have no > > > default.arts-env file. I am beginning to wonder if I have aRTs > > > installed at all. > > > > That's really puzzling. As far as I know, aRts is used by kde-related > > apps - which, I would have thought, means kscd - while xmms is, I > > believe, a gnome app. Anyone care to comment? > > > > Anne > > -- > > Registered Linux User No.293302 > > Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? > > I am beginning to think that I may have to reinstall aRTs, or is there some > way to get KDE to re-recognize that aRTs is installed? Just not sure how > to go about either at the moment. > > Doug Roberts
I am coming awfully late into this thread, but has anyone suggested to Doug installing the Alsa driver yet? The Yamaha OPL3 is supported by Alsa according to http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/index.php3?vendor=vendor-Yamaha#matrix To install the Alsa driver 1/ Install the alsa-utils, alsamixergui, and newt packages (If not already installed) 2/ Make a backup copy of /etc/modules.conf 3/ In a root terminal run alsaconf Alsaconf will write a new modules.conf file with the correct settings for your sound card. 4/ Copy back by hand those lines in the old modules.conf which are not sound related. 5/ Reboot into the new sound driver, and in KDEControlCentre>Sound>SoundSystem set the sound server to Alsa 6/ Use alsamixergui to select default sound levels and save them. 7/ In xmms it may work better if you select the Output Plugin to be alsa. If it does not work replace the alsaconf generated lines in modules.conf with the ones from your backup. derek -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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