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Picoli

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Registered: 2010-06-29

Posts: 17

After playing System Sound, no other sounds anymore.

Hi,
I'm using KDE4 and this is my problem:
Whenever i use an application with sound (chromium. smplayer, ...) and there's a system sound, the sound of the application disappears and i have to restart the application to get the sound back on. Can somebody help me? I followed all archlinux wiki's but no success. At the moment, i have installed alsa-utils, alsa-oss, and i use xine as a backend.
I don't know what informations are useful so please ask, if you need any.

Greetings

ngoonee

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Registered: 2009-03-17

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Re: After playing System Sound, no other sounds anymore.

Either make everything use dmix (easier) or use Pulseaudio (harder but more rewarding IMO). Alsa is supposed to use dmix by default but doesn't seem to work in your case.

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Picoli

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Registered: 2010-06-29

Posts: 17

Re: After playing System Sound, no other sounds anymore.

Thanks for your reply. I tried both. No success. When i followed the pulse-wiki i even got an error during boot.
The whole thing is really annoying because i followed the install wiki and did nothing wrong. But it doesn't wanna work.
I think the problem is with phonon. Any ideas?