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#1 2004-10-21 15:43:50

ScottTFrazer
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Sound problem in KDE

I've just installed a fresh Arch 0.6 install, did a pacman -Syu, then installed xorg, kde and gnome.

I'm using KDE as my window manager and can't get sound to play inside KDE.

I've followed the wiki on alsa setup and aplay causes sound output when I'm outside X

When I run the Control Center | Sound & Multimedia | Sound System and try to change my audio device I get a SIGSEGV error in KNotify.

any ideas?

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#2 2004-10-21 16:06:19

phrakture
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Re: Sound problem in KDE

make sure artsd is running - KDE uses some goofy sound daemon

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#3 2004-10-21 16:09:40

ScottTFrazer
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Re: Sound problem in KDE

I think it is:

[sfrazer@it44 sounds]$ ps ax | grep artsd
 1357 ?        S      0:12 artsd -F 10 -S 4096 -a oss -d -m artsmessage -c drkon
 1778 pts/3    S+     0:00 grep artsd
[sfrazer@it44 sounds]$

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#4 2004-10-21 16:11:11

phrakture
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Re: Sound problem in KDE

do you have oss emulation? run alsaconf and make sure "snd-pcm-oss" is listed in lsmod... if not this module needs to be loaded too

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#5 2004-10-21 16:29:25

ScottTFrazer
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Re: Sound problem in KDE

lsmod output:

[sfrazer@it44 ~]$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
sr_mod                 18852  0
eepro100               31756  0
mii                     5888  1 eepro100
snd_pcm_oss            57384  1
snd_mixer_oss          20992  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_intel8x0           37932  2
snd_ac97_codec         71684  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm               104708  2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_intel8x0
snd_timer              28164  1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc         12168  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
gameport                5248  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_mpu401_uart         8960  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_rawmidi            26660  1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device          8584  1 snd_rawmidi
snd                    60260  11 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore              11104  2 snd
rtc                    14408  0
tsdev                   7808  0
joydev                 10560  0
evdev                  10112  0

also, my rc.conf:

[sfrazer@it44 sounds]$ cat /etc/rc.conf
#
# /etc/rc.conf - Main Configuration for Arch Linux
#

HARDWARECLOCK="localtime"
TIMEZONE=America/New_York
KEYMAP=us
CONSOLEFONT=
USECOLOR="yes"

HOSTNAME="it44"

MODULES=(!hotplug !usbserial !ide-scsi snd-card-0 snd-pcm-oss)

lo="lo 127.0.0.1"
eth0="eth0 10.0.20.103 netmask 255.255.0.0 broadcast 10.0.255.255"
INTERFACES=(lo eth0)

gateway="default gw 10.0.1.1"
ROUTES=(gateway)

DAEMONS=(syslogd klogd !pcmcia network netfs crond alsamixer portmap fam)

# End of file

P.S. Thanks for helping with this :-)

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#6 2004-10-21 16:44:41

phrakture
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Re: Sound problem in KDE

I doubt this will help, but replace snd-card-0 in MODULES with snd-intel8x0.

make sure you're not starting hotplug (sometimes it gets sound modules wrong... like on my laptop).

also, pacman -S hwd and run it to see what sound module it detects.

did you run alsaconf - it puts some lines in your modprobe.conf file needed for oss emulation?

after trying this stuff, reboot to get a clean start (or just attempt to rmmod all the modules related to sound)

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#7 2004-10-21 19:42:30

ScottTFrazer
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Re: Sound problem in KDE

Oh man, am I glad I posted this in the newbie forum...

sound is playing in kde, at least, as long as it's a .wav file.  The sound files I was trying to play earlier were .ogg files.

Humorously, the way I figured this out was when k3b finished burning a DVD and sounded the bugle-charge at an annoyingly loud volume.

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#8 2004-10-21 20:06:47

phrakture
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Re: Sound problem in KDE

hahaha

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#9 2004-10-23 06:56:16

onami
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Re: Sound problem in KDE

there's an option somewhere, or in the kde control center at sounds item, or in kmixer which says load volumes .... Uncheck it. If you still have no sound it is due to  the fact that volumes are low because of this check box , even if they still appear high with alsamixer. So init 1, unload the modules, init 5 load them again,  and alsamixer to make your volumes as you wish them.
This bothers me too with kde .


Forever newbie !!!

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#10 2004-10-25 18:34:14

ScottTFrazer
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Re: Sound problem in KDE

as an update:  I just did a pacman -Syu and applied an update to the kdemultimedia package.  Ogg sounds now play.

weeeeeeeee

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