On Sunday 02 May 2004 01:09 am, James Richard Tyrer wrote: > kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Can someone please explain how to get KDE 3.2.2 to use alsa? I've got a > > 2.6.5 kernel and alsa is running but doesn't really work with KDE. Here > > are some clues: > > > > 1) The test sound works well from the control center, but I don't hear > > the KDE startup sound or any other KDE sounds. > > > > 2) JuK sounds a bit "garbled" when set to use arts output (unlistenable). > > > > 3) JuK produces no sound and skips to the next track when set to use > > GStreamer output. > > > > Help please! I don't understand how KDE and arts and oss and gstreamer > > and alsa are supposed to all work together ?! Mostly, I just want to get > > JuK sounding okay again. > > > > If you have any clues at all, please enlighten me! > > I'm not sure of your problem. > > IIUC, you must have the latest version of ALSA to use with the new Kernel. > Do you have ALSA 1.0.4? If not, upgrading ALSA is the first thing that I > would suggest. > > There was a bug in KDE that you had to select ALSA in the Sound System KCM. > I don't know if that is still necessary, but I would then try that as > well. > Thanks for your help... but actually, I do have the latest 1.04 ALSA and I've tried selecting ALSA or Threaded Open Sound System in Control Center -- same results. I think maybe I've got too many sound modules loaded or something. Any other ideas? -- _________________________________ : : : DataFly.Net : : : Industrial-Strength Web Hosting http://www.datafly.net ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.