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slackwarefan

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Monday, March 29th 2004, 10:27pm

KDE uses xmms for system sounds

After upgrading to 2.6.4 I had what appears to be a common problem, my sound wouldnt work due to a CPU overload caused by Artsd. I was told that upgrading alsa driver, oss, libs and utils would solve the problem, so I decided to do that. Before I did that however I decided to see if I could play system sounds through xmms, just to see if it would work. Once I upgraded ALSA I was unable to uncheck "Use external player" in System notifications. This left me using xmms as my system sound player, meaning that it would pop up everytime something tried to play. This was obviously very anoying, so I was forced to turn off all system sounds. I do know that artsd now works, because when I go to "Sound System" under the control center and try to "Test Sound" which goes through artsd and it worked. Any help is appriciated.

Here is a link to an image showing my problem.
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Monday, March 29th 2004, 10:39pm

I'm afarid I don't understand what your problem is.
Just uncheck the "Use external player" option again.

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Monday, March 29th 2004, 10:45pm

I cant, see how the option is "greyed out"/
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Tuesday, March 30th 2004, 7:18pm

Oh, didn't see that this is deactivated in your style, sorry.

You can change the value in
.kde/share/knotifyrc
Change
Use external player=true
to
Use external player=false

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Wednesday, March 31st 2004, 2:35am

Thanks, ill try that. Just wondering though, how did the option get disabled anayway? Has anyone here heard of anyone else with the same problem, or is my system just wierd.
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Monday, May 17th 2004, 10:11pm

No, your system isn't weird. I had the exact same problem and just wanted to drop a note of thanks for the fix being posted.

Much appreciated.