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KDE 3.2 Sound problem

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Sunday, February 15th 2004, 4:47pm

KDE 3.2 Sound problem

Hello

For past few days I'm trying to find a solution for my problem, but nothing.
I have Fedora Core 1 (athlon 2500XP, nforce2, onboard realtek soundstorm), and on monday I recompiled KDE 3.2 for Athlon. Sound worked when I logged in (standard sounds), but when I tried to listen to something else (xmms, xine and stuff like that) nothing works anymore.

In Gnome everything is working fine, but here all is so strange.
In control center sound system when I click on test sound, I hear it, but if I start redhat-config-soundcard, it finds i810_audio, but cannot play the test sound. In command line I get:
i810_audio: Device or resource busy
sox:Can't open output file /dev/dsp

What can I do??? :(
I was really happy when I first logged in KDE 3.2, but now... :?:

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Sunday, February 15th 2004, 6:07pm

Re: KDE 3.2 Sound problem

Hi!

Could it be possible that artsd (the KDE soundserver) blocks the sound-device? Please the item "start arts-soundserver at KDE startup" in the KDE Control Centre (sound & multimedia - sound system) [I use the german version of KDE so the menu texts may differ from that above.]. Switch it off and test if the device is blocked.

Maybe you will try to let KDE deactivate arts after a period of inactivity. Then it's better (for testing) to deactivate "full duplex" in the tab "Sound in/output".

Hope this helps you al little bit. Maybe they changed some standard settings. I will upgrade to KDE 3.2 within the next few days.

Bye!

Christoph

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In control center sound system when I click on test sound, I hear it, but if I start redhat-config-soundcard, it finds i810_audio, but cannot play the test sound. In command line I get:
i810_audio: Device or resource busy
sox:Can't open output file /dev/dsp
[...]

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Monday, February 16th 2004, 4:42pm

Hi

I disabled soundserver at startup, and now I get sound from Xine.
Thanks,

But still, the main question is not answered, why do I get any sound at all, when redhat-config-soundcard tells me that it can not load the module, and there is no test sound??? Is there some conflict involved???

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Thursday, June 17th 2004, 12:44am

I can tell you what I found out from the XMMS people, on there forums they say its a bug in the sound (arts) demon, that if you have it running you will have problems with XMMS, mplayer and a few other programs. The current work around is disabling the sound demon, wich you did. Xmms can use the arts sound service but NOT if the sound service is running generating system events sounds. (It locks up the sound totally if you attemt to have the demon running and xmms)

All you can do is turn it off, and the rest of the programs will be fine. (probaby have to reboot after doing it or go in and kill the demon if your linux swavy enough)

If your sound isnt working you might want to check the sound levels in the mixer app, Core 2 for a while liked to turn the PCM level to 0 for some stange reason, it stoped on my system. But then i'm still a bit of a newbie at it.

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Wednesday, August 18th 2004, 3:55pm

kde 3.2 no start up sound

i am using suse9.1, my kde 3.2 has no start up sound, i go to control center, sound & multimedia, but not sure where to do the setting, can anyone help?
very fresh in linux

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Friday, November 26th 2004, 2:40pm

hi!
I have a similar problem... my sound works but it is not working as it should be... it is not sync with what i am doing... :? it feels the sound is like too "slow" but in gnome it works just fine :roll:

Sp00ky