Mike,
I've looked over what you have done and compared
it with my settings and there is nothing that
really stands out as different. I am running a
SB-128 card which 7.2 detected during install. It
used the ensoniq 1371 driver. I went
through and picked the .wav's I wanted, clicked on
Apply and then OK when I was done. I'm trying to
recall whether they took effect then or after a
reboot, but I'm not sure. Digging through the
Introduction section of the manual wasn't a major
help, although the info on aRts Sound Server was
interesting. The 250msec delay sets the response
time for the CPU. If you go to the 50msec time,
it puts a higher priority on the sound and raises
the resource demand on the CPU. One note is the
duplex setting. I need to keep that in mind when
I get around to play with PC phones.
The www.kde.org site says the KDE2.0.1 is out and
that it fixes many of the bugs, one of them is
related to the aRts Sound Server. I didn't try to
track down the problem. I hope I see it in a
Mandrake compatible RPM shortly.
You mentioned that the Gnome system sounds work,
I'm wondering if Gnome uses the aRts Sound Server
as well. I would imagine it is a common service
for both windows environments, but I haven't
checked it out.
Wish I was more help.
Barry
"Mike Cochrane (MC)" wrote:
I'm still searching for a fix to the system sound mystery. The silence is
deafening. Anybody got ideas!
After installation of Mandrake 7.2 (I come from the RedHat world) and
KDE2.0pre I find everything ticking along fine except "system" sound. All
other sound functions work fine -- within KDE and outside of it.
1. Kmedia player works fine and plays .wavs and songs and etc. under KDE2
2. gtv mp3 players works fine within KDE2
3. cdplayer works fine within KDE2
4. when browsing files in Konqueror, I can point at a .wav file and the
.wav player will pop up and player it.
... so -- KDE and Mandrake proper saw and installed the sound card, but
*system* sounds are dead. (BTW -- when I choose GNOME as the GUI, *their*
system sounds work fine)
I've worked through the system control menus:
1. on the sound server page, aRts is checked to be on at startup (I've
checked it and unchecked it several times, rebooting after each change)
2. 250msecs is selected ("comfortable" -- whatever that's supposed to mean)
3. Nothing else on that page (sound server setup) is checked
4. In LookNFeel I have worked through System Notifications and checked the
sound boxes and assigned a .wav file to every system function (pointing to
files in /usr/share/sound/*.wav).
sowadayathink? Thanks!
Mike
