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Subject:    Re: No wav sounds in KDE 1.1.2 (system sounds)
From:       Christopher Molnar <molnarc () nebsllc ! com>
Date:       1999-12-15 21:35:57
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I am having the exact problem as will with RH 6.1. I can play sounds in GNOME,
but not in KDE since I updated. I am curious if anyone has gotten this to work
on 6.1 with an ESS sound card. (I am on a Compaq Presario 1240 Laptop).

On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, warren11 wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Tony Reed wrote:
> 
> > On 14/12/99, John Aldrich wrote:
> > 
> > :> Hello..
> > :> I'm having a bit of trouble with KDE 1.1.2 on a RH 6.1 box..
> > :> I was experimenting and discovered that I cannot play the system sounds
> > :> (wav files) in KDE.  xmms works fine for playing mp3 files, so I know my
> > :> sound card is working.. what do I need for the system sounds to work?
> > :> 
> > :Have you enabled system sounds in KDE? Go to KDE Control
> > :Center, to "sound" and then to "system sounds" and make
> > :sure it's set to "enable system sounds"
> > :	John
> > 
> > Also, there's a file called /etc/sysconfig/soundcard that should simply be
> > cp'd (so you have both) to /etc/sysconfig/sound.  This file is set up by 
> > sndconfig, and is necessary for KDE sounds, even if you didn't use sndconfig
> > because you compiled your sound driver in, and sndconfig reports that it
> > won't work for you.  Neat, eh?  Joseph Heller just died; he'll be missed.
> > 
> > Also, you may have to launch the kmixer before you can get sounds to 
> > play.  Some of those .wav files play perfectly, some don't, and I don't 
> > get it.
> > 
> > Tony.
> 
> Tony,
>     I have the same problem, R.H. 6.1 upgraded from 5.2 which I used an
> oss sound driver.  I have uninstalled that but my sndconfig bombs.
> My xcdplay and the kde cdplay works fine.
> I have copied the soundcard to sound and ran the mixer thingy.
> Still cant get sndconfig to work.
> I just rebooted today and during that I noticed that a sound card,
> ESS1868 sound card, was detected and loaded at 0x800 and I think IRQ 5.
> Then it tried loading a second driver and errored out.
> Retrying sndconfig gives same error about isanpnp.conf:414.
> 
> I looked at the file 'isapnp.conf' and don't know what to edit in that to
> fix the prob.
> 
> With my old oss driver the system sounds worked fine.
> 
> Warren
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