On Monday 22 Mar 2004 09:36, Sweeney, Stephen wrote: Hear Hear Stephen!
I'm having exactly the same problem! amongst others...... at the moment, 9.2 looks an increasingly better option :-) JRH > (sorry if this comes out a bit long, but I'd like to make sure that I've > explained everything). > > On the weekend I installed Mandrake 10 (install, not update). Install went > fine. I then booted into KDE 3.2. It hung leaving the Mandrake wallpaper in > the background. I tried again, this time I got a warning about Knotify not > starting and asking me if I wanted to disable it. I did and it still hung. > I then went into IceWM, fired up Kcontrol and turned off the sound in KDE > (can't remember how I came to this conclusion). > > So now KDE loads. That's good. The trouble is that there are a number of > apps that now will not support sound. I have tried setting KDE to use OSS > and Threaded OSS and, although it will still load fine, I still can't get > sound from the apps I want to use. In particular I'm having problems with, > > 1) XMMS - This one is strange. With ALSA it will not play. With OSS it will > continually loop the first 1 second or so of the song until I hit stop. > > 2) Mplayer - Will play most movie files fine, but if you exit half way > through the sound will loop around for around 5 seconds before stopping. > > 3) SDL game (not tried others) - There is no sound whatsoever. I tried > recompiling the projects I'm working on and they simply can't get access to > the sound. > > I know my hardware is compatible (Sony VIAO laptop) as I have been using > MDK9 on it for over a year. > > Anyone got any suggestions, fixes, etc? It's very frustrating have all the > benefits of the new KDE and general speed of everything but with such a let > down in the sound department. > > Cheers, > > Steve :| > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >--- This message is intended only for the personal and confidential use of > the designated recipient(s) named above. If you are not the intended > recipient of this message you are hereby notified that any review, > dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is strictly > prohibited. This communication is for information purposes only and should > not be regarded as an offer to sell or as a solicitation of an offer to buy > any financial product, an official confirmation of any transaction, or as > an official statement of Lehman Brothers. Email transmission cannot be > guaranteed to be secure or error-free. Therefore, we do not represent that > this information is complete or accurate and it should not be relied upon > as such. All information is subject to change without notice. -- Sent using Kmail, on Mandrake Linux 10. "Linux - It's not Windows!" 10:12:31 up 46 min, 0 users, load average: 1.25, 1.16, 1.24
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