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List:       kde
Subject:    Re: Sound in Kde2.0 Beta4
From:       David Grill Watson <dgwatson () kent ! edu>
Date:       2000-09-04 21:35:33
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Now for the REAL truth.

If you have the alsa libs installed, it will use them - but it only works for 
certain versions.

Period.

I uninstalled the alsa libs (even tho I use alsa drivers), simply because OSS 
emulation works flawlessly, and it's much less hassle.

On Mon, 04 Sep 2000, Timothy R. Butler wrote:
> Hi Terry,
>   That seems like a real design flaw... why would the KDE team purposely
> require a certain sounds system? Does it just require ALSA to be installed,
> or do you have to have a sound card that works with ALSA too? My card isn't
> supported by ALSA, only this free driver or one that comes with the
> commercial version of OSS.
>
>   Any ideas?
>
>   Thanks,
>        Tim
>
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: kde-request@lists.netcentral.net
> > [mailto:kde-request@lists.netcentral.net]On Behalf Of Terry
> > Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 12:48 PM
> > To: KDE general mailing list
> > Subject: RE: Sound in Kde2.0 Beta4
> >
> >
> > Hi back.  Sound in KDE2 does require the Alsa sound libs in order to
> > work. The libs are very strict about which kernel your using to. A
> > mismatched libalsa with the wrong kernel version will not get you sound.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: kde-request@lists.netcentral.net
> > [mailto:kde-request@lists.netcentral.net]On Behalf Of Timothy R. Butler
> > Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2000 5:01 PM
> > To: KDE general mailing list
> > Subject: RE: Sound in Kde2.0 Beta4
> >
> >
> > Hi Terry,
> >   I booted up Linux, and KSCD worked fine. System Sounds still doesn't
> > work in
> > root (not sure if they would in my user account - all of the system
> > notification
> > options are missing on that account) though. Could it be that aRts
> > doesn't like my
> > sound card since it doesn't support midi synth in Linux? It's a Kernel
> > Module
> > driver that emulates OSS/Free drivers.
> >
> >    So, I now know at least the following support sounds:
> >
> >     - KDE 1.1.2
> >     - GNOME 1.0
> >     - XMMS 1.2.1
> >     - KSCD (for 1.93 Beta)
> >
> >   The only thing I can say doesn't work is KDE system sounds.
> >
> >   Any ideas?
> >
> >   -Tim
> >
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------
> > Timothy R. Butler                              Universal Networks
> > Information Tech. Consultant    Christian Web Services Since 1996
> > ICQ #12495932 AIM: Uninettm       An Authorized IPSwitch Reseller
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> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: kde-request@lists.netcentral.net
> > > [mailto:kde-request@lists.netcentral.net]On Behalf Of Terry
> > > Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 6:07 AM
> > > To: KDE general mailing list
> > > Subject: RE: Sound in Kde2.0 Beta4
> > >
> > >
> > > Can you play CD's using KSCD?
> > >
> > > >   I'm not sure about everyone else, but this way doesn't work on my
> > > > SuSE
> >
> > 6.4
> >
> > > > system (actually, no way that I know of does). Is it perhaps that KDE
> > >
> > > can't figure
> > >
> > > > out what my sound card is? Is there a way to manually direct it to
> > > > the
> >
> > card?
> >
> > > >   Thanks,
> > > >        Tim
> > >
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