RE: [newbie] MDk10CE, KDE 3.2 and no sound

2004-03-22 Thread Sweeney, Stephen
I did do an update immediately... But it was a "selective" update. I didn't
do things like Apache. Tonight I may well do the whole lot just to be on the
safe side.

-Original Message-
From: Greg Meyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 1:09 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] MDk10CE, KDE 3.2 and no sound


On Monday 22 March 2004 04:36 am, Sweeney, Stephen wrote:
> (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).
>
Have you applied any updates to the original install of 10.0.  OIIRC, there 
were a bunch of things fixed related to the arts soundeserver and OSS 
emulation.  You should update before spending a lot of time because whatever

you are running into may have been fixed.
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RE: [newbie] MDk10CE, KDE 3.2 and no sound

2004-03-22 Thread Sweeney, Stephen
Well, hey... If I can get KDE 3.2 working with sound on Mandrake 9.2 then I
will do that instead... 

Could anyone advise me? Does XMMS, Mplayer and other sound apps play well
with MDK9.2 and KDE 3.2?

-Original Message-
From: JRH [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 10:13 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] MDk10CE, KDE 3.2 and no sound


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 :|
>
> 
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Re: [newbie] MDk10CE, KDE 3.2 and no sound

2004-03-22 Thread JRH
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 :|
>
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