no sound in KDE

shockertwin · Apprentice Joined: 16 Dec 2005 Posts: 151

I cant get any sound working except for teh static sound for testing...(as per the alsa tutorial). And when i go to the control panel and sound and multimedia. it jsut tells me that it couldent find my sound server. So i restarted alsasound ad i still got nothing. Anyone have any idea?

also, i AM able to play songs via the ocmmand line. Wut i would likea graphical interface for when i am actually in kde.

shockertwin · Apprentice Joined: 16 Dec 2005 Posts: 151

i guess this one is a doosie. i will try experimenting with stuff i guess.

avieth · Veteran Joined: 17 Sep 2004 Posts: 1945 Location: Canada

Ok, I'm assuming that all other sounds work, xmms as such, and that you want the system notifications.

I'm no expert on the sound server portion, but I know that you do not want to use arts, from what I hear and from my own experiences, arts is difficult. So like I said, I can't help you with the sound server, but under system notifications, click on player settings in the bottom right corner and use an external player. Find a commandline player like aplay. The sounds are ogg, so I don't know if aplay can handle them, but I'm sure you could search the forums or google for a quick howto on console ogg playing.

shockertwin · Apprentice Joined: 16 Dec 2005 Posts: 151

nope, i dont get any sounds at all unless i request them from the command line. I doa lot of GUI work as part of ym class in school is linux and i would like a media player.

I jsut emerged arts. It is now letting me choose my sound stuff. Except it crashes every time a sound starts to play.

eldacar · Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 8:38 am Post subject:

What GUI media players have you tried in KDE?

shockertwin · Apprentice Joined: 16 Dec 2005 Posts: 151

just kmplayer. But still, the sound system crashes when i do the test sound inside the control panle sound configuration. But everything still worked fine fromt eh command line.

plasmagunman · l33t Joined: 07 Jun 2002 Posts: 604 Location: berlin

which prog are you using on commandline to test? and did you install arts after kde? some packages compile against arts and it could be better recompiling them.
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shockertwin · Apprentice Joined: 16 Dec 2005 Posts: 151

yes i did arts after kde.

i am using mplayer for the command line player.