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Guys?

Two days ago I upgraded this laptop (Gateway M500 using SuSE Pro 9.2) to KDE 3.4.0 level "a". The upgrade was accomplished using apt-get/synaptic. The upgrade went normally. The only hiccup so far was the loss of the system sounds! I searched thrue the forum and found most of this type of problem was with FreeBSD but I'm having it with SuSE Pro 9.2. The problem is only with the system sounds as I have multimedia sound.

So far this is what I have observed:

1 -> while in the System Notifications module of the Control Center (kcontrol), the selected sound file (.wav or .ogg) cannot be previewed... To go a set further, NO sound files can be previewed when using konqueror...with KDE 3.3 sound files could be previewed, if so desired.... Btw, I do have aRts enable!!!

2 -> when I tried to add the 'aRts Control' applet to the panel, it displays this error message "The aRts Control applet could not be loaded. Please check your installation." This may be a separate problem, one with no bearing on the lack of system sounds...

3 -> in kcontrol's Sound System module, the TEST SOUND button does work - the sound still plays normally...

4 -> the multimedia apps still work normally...

Here is what I have tried so far - I know about the 'knotifyrc' file in the .kde folder and it was the first place I looked to be sure things were set properly to "true" - they were...

In the grand scheme of things, this is a very minor problem but it is one I have heard about happening on other systems after being upgraded but I haven't heard of a fix, other than checking the syntax in knotifyrc. Oh, I did reinstall aRts.

Any ideas what may be the problem here? Thanks in advance.

darkmatter,

Thanks for your suggestion...also, sorry it took so long for me to get back to you...

You were correct in assuming the line "kdeinit +knotify" was missing from startkde. It's of interest to note when I saw your reply to my post I was in Debian. I have three different Linux distros installed on this Gateway (Yeah, I know, I'm a masochist!) - SuSE Pro 9.2, Debian/sid and Kanotix 2005-01 and I have installed KDE 3.4 in SuSE and Debian and they both lost their system sounds. Too, their individual 'startkde' scripts were missing the same line, 'kdeinit +knotify'.

Since I was in Debian when I read your post, I gave your suggestion a try there and I think it may have worked as I now have system sounds when using the SU konqueror but as user the system sounds are still missing. So top in SuSE...while in Debian I added 'kdeinit +knotify' to the SuSE startkde and rebooted into SuSE, the OS I am now using. And it behaves the same way - system sounds when using SU konqueror only.

I now have to wonder - is this now a permissions problem??? The missing line appears to have the sounds playing in the root envoirnment, since they are heard when using the SU konqueror. I did not have ANY system sounds, as user OR root, until I added 'kdeinit +knotify'.

Any other ideas?

Yes, the volume is turned up

darkmatter, I just opened a root kcontrol and went into the sound notification module. You see, in the user kcontrol's sound notification module, when I try to preview the chosen sound file, the system 'tries' to play the file - the HDD chuns and in top arts will pop to the top of the list but nothing is heard. However, in root's kcontrol's sound notification module, the files preview normally! The sounds are heard...

Permissions mis-set somewhere???

Guys,

The fix for this was so damned simple I still can't believe it! To get my system sounds back in all three distros, all I had to do was to delete ~/HOME/.kde/share/config/knotifyrc and then log out and back in. Voila! I now have system sounds, in all three distros!!!

Thanks for all of your suggestions!