On Saturday 12 January 2008, Mrugesh Karnik wrote: > On Saturday 12 Jan 2008 14:23:44 Arnold Krille wrote: > > Am Samstag, 12. Januar 2008 schrieb Mrugesh Karnik: > > > A while ago, being annoyed by arts interfering with skype, I decided to > > > recompile my KDE without arts (I'm on Gentoo). Since then, my KDE does > > > not emit any kind of sound for system notifications. > > > > KDE(3) without aRts means KDE without sound. So that is very clear > > behavior. Either you want the KDE-systemsounds or not, either you want > > (or tolerate) aRts or not. > > Thought so. But this issue is nearly irrelevant :) It is completely irrelavant to the other part of your question, yes.. > > > The bigger issue is that my mic input simply does not `reach' any > > > software. Anything said into the mic comes out from the speakers > > > directly. The volume controls in kmix for the mic work correctly, > > > however. How do I fix this? Oh, I haven't tried to use the mic anywhere > > > outside KDE.. > > > > Maybe try another mixer-app too. alsamixer (and the graphical > > alsamixergui) are direct representants of the mixing controls of the > > soundcard. But I really doubt that is has anything to do with aRts being > > removed. Unless you try to record with an app that only uses aRts and not > > alsa directly... > > Hmmm. Audacity doesn't detect any input from the mic. Everything I blow > into it comes out from the speakers directly. Show us the output of the command amixer Thanks, Flo -- Palimm Palimm! http://tapas.affenbande.org _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
