Sound problems

[david walcroft]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Saturday 19 May 2007, david walcroft wrote:
>> Anne Wilson wrote:
>>> On Thursday 17 May 2007, david walcroft wrote:
>>>> Anne Wilson wrote:
>>>>> On Tuesday 15 May 2007, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>>>>>> david walcroft wrote:
>>>>>>> I have got the sound going via alsamixer but have found the problem
>>>>>>> lies in KDE,testing the sound in control centre/system notifications.
>>>>>>> works but not with progamme sound i:e "minimize" "close window"
>>>>>> Not really relevant, but my experience is the opposite.
>>>>>> I had no sound at all until I went to Control Centre=>Sound &
>>>>>> Multimedia =>Sound System , where I found "Enable the Sound System"
>>>>>> was off. After turning it on, and setting the "Auto-suspend if idle"
>>>>>> to 0 seconds, I get noises all the time, to the annoyance of others in
>>>>>> the room.
>>>>> I haven't been following this thread, but this statement caught my eye.
>>>>> I always set "Auto-suspend if idle" to 1 second, and found it helpful.
>>>>> (This from the time when I first discovered that aRts hogs the system
>>>>> unless you do this.)  HTH
>>>>>
>>>>> Anne
>>>> I think I've found a problem with this error
>>>>
>>>> "Impossible to start aRts with realtime priority because artswrapper is
>>>> missing or disabled"
>>>>
>>>> How do I restart artswrapper,it's in /usr/bin.
>>> In a root console,
>>>
>>> /usr/bin/artswrapper
>>>
>>> I would think
>>>
>>> Anne
>> Okay I tried that,all it did was to kill all sounds - mplayer,soundcard
>> detection,etc.so I stopped artswrapper and every thing works except KDE
>> sounds [KDE starting up,KDE window opens]
>>
>> Thanks   david
> 
> FWIW I believe that 3.5 KDE will not be using aRts, which will be a blessing 
> to all :-)
> 
> Anne
> 
A light at the end of the tunnel,any info on a release date.

Tk\hnks  david