ARTS sound message!

Bolívar bolivar.de at terra.com.br
Mon Jun 14 20:53:37 UTC 2004


At 21:19 11/6/2004 -0400, you wrote:

> >
> > From: Bolívar <bolivar.de at terra.com.br>
> > Date: 2004/06/11 Fri PM 08:00:31 EDT
> > To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> > Subject: ARTS sound message!
> >
> > This is driving me nuts! Upon starting KDE, this window appear...
> >
> > Sound Server informational message:
> > Error while initializing the sound driver.
> > device: default can´t be opened for playback(no such device)
> > The sound server will continue, using the null output device.
> >
> > My sound card is a via82xx, been googling around, found several possible
> > fixes, none works.
> > The only fix I found, is to start the sound card detection tool and click
> > "test", but sometimes it works, sometimes don´t. Help!
>
>I was having the problem you describe. Today I upgraded to kde 3.2.3 (RPMs 
>linked to from kde.org), and the 2.6.6-1.427smp kernel (using up2date), 
>and the problem seems to have gone away.  I'm not sure whether or not 
>doing just one of those upgrades would have solved the problem.
>

Well, I´ve found a unstable "way" to get around this problem. Just start 
kde session logged as a user instead of root. There IS chances of this 
message pop-up and sound not starting, but they are very slim. Like 1 to 
10, or greater. Strange, but works for me....wonder why...






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