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ALSA as Sound Server in KDE 3.5.5 Gentoo 2006.1

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Thursday, May 10th 2007, 12:51am

ALSA as Sound Server in KDE 3.5.5 Gentoo 2006.1

Got a bit of a problem here, I have audio with the driver, but not not through the kernel, using the latest official alsa drivers I should say. Anyhow..

The problem is as follows, I do have audio, but now when I go to Control Center > Sound & Multimedia > Sound System I am presented with the following error message:

Unable to start the sound server to retrieve possible sound I/O methods.

Currently, for system notifications I have mplayer set to play all of KDE's default sounds, which so far sounds great, not having any trouble with it. But in other linux distros, I have seen ALSA used as a sound system under Sound System in the Control Center, basically I just want to know how I would get ALSA to be used as the default, if anyone would be able to tell me that, it would be great.
Thanks.

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Thursday, June 28th 2007, 5:19am

RE: ALSA as Sound Server in KDE 3.5.5 Gentoo 2006.1

I am running on Gentoo 2007.0 with the modular KDE 3.5.5 base (kdebase-meta), ALSA drivers compiled (no kernel modules), and no ARTS.
Testing sound through the Settings/Sounds and Multimedia/Sound System never works, even though the detect hardware option finds the ALSA enabled driver.
Going to System Notifications and changing the player to "/usr/bin/mplayer" works fine.

Is the KDE sound sub-system not working?

My setup is a Dell Dimension 8250 XPS with a SB Live OEM card running on a EMU10k1x chipset.

Thank you.

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Wednesday, December 19th 2007, 3:27am

Any ideas why this is happening?

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Tuesday, January 15th 2008, 10:40am

Maybe because without ARts in won`t work? When you are enabling sound system, KDE trying to start artsd. And is a good idea when compiling aRts use option --with-alsa.

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Tuesday, January 15th 2008, 4:37pm

Good point. Had to re-compile entire KDE with ARTS enabled to get it working :-)