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I can't help you with the popups, but I do know how to fix the sound driver error. You've got to tell KDE to use ESD, or ESounD, instead of aRts. Here's how I did it.<BR>
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<A HREF="http://www.k12ltsp.org/phpwiki/index.php/WorkstationSound">http://www.k12ltsp.org/phpwiki/index.php/WorkstationSound</A><BR>
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Then, configure KDE to use ESD from the Control Panel. No, I don't know how to do it for everybody at once. :-(<BR>
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--TP<BR>
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On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 20:13 -0700, gKw-X wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">When I start KDE there are a couple popups that appear... One says </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">"kwrited - Listening on Device /dev/pts/3", the other says "Error while </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">initializing sound driver device /dev/dsp can't be opened". I actually </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">don't know if the machines even have sound, I assume that error means </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">they don't. How can I get rid of these? I don't want the students to see </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">them every time.</FONT>
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