I appologize - - I got it to work. After installing Alsa and running alsaconfig - - AND THEN rebooting - kmix launches just fine and the alsamixer also works like a charm. I was under the impression that linux didn't rely so much on rebooting the node - - no like windoze crizzzzzap. Sorry for the fodder. HOpe this may help someone in the future.
I've had no trouble playing music on KDE 3.2 for months, however Kmixer now crashes when I try to bring it up-- taking all audio with it. I get the crash handler right away, stating: "The applicaton KMix (kmix) crashed and caused the signal 8 (SIGFPE)" (It won't give me any backtract info) I installed Alsa - - ran alsaconfig with success - - but still no sound. How can I give Kmix the boot and use something else? Is there some syntax I need to add or modify in a .config file somewhere? If you ha...
When booting into KDE a blank graphic screen flashes, fails, and goes to the terminal-- giving this message: "Error while loading shared libraries--> libpng.so.3 no such file or directory" It then goes into (paraphrasing) /usr/bin/startkde: line 201 Xmessage command not found. and "Error: can't connect kdeinit This all happened after I installed the libpng.so.2 rpm due to multiple media players telling me I needed it (Xine, XMM and mplayer). I tried installing libpng.so.3 through Mandrake's URPM...