How to get KDE 3.2 for FC1 that recognizes ALSA?

[Mary Ellen Foster]

On Wednesday 18 Feb 2004 14:36, -=Brian Truter=- wrote:
> I installed KDE 3.2 from the kde-redhat.sourceforge.net repository and they
> have the same issue, ALSA is not an option on the Hardware tab.
>
> I went ahead and installed ALSA and set it up, it seems to work great in
> Gnome, but still overloads the cpu in KDE 3.2.

Two known bugs with aRts (KDE's sound server)

1. If you're running with ALSA, don't let it "autodetect" the sound system; 
specifically tell it to use ALSA, because aRts doesn't play nice with ALSA's 
OSS emulation layer.

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73461


2. There are problems playing some audio files using aRts if you haven't 
installed "mpeglib" -- which, again, the Fedora RPMs don't have enabled. You 
can enable mpeg by changing a couple of parameters in the .spec files of the 
SRPMS (and using the real kdemultimedia source tarball instead of the one in 
the SRPM). Without this, playing (e.g.) .ogg files has a tendency to be bad 
in aRts.

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61737

MEF

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