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Not sure where to put this, but multimedia seemed like a good place, since it involves sound.

First, I've searched these boards for all posts with the keyword "sound" and it seems a lot of people have problems with sound in KDE. I tried most of the things suggested, nothing worked. So I did look for help myself before making a post

I've had Linux installed for about a week now, distro Mandrake 9.2, using KDE 3.1.3. I have a Creative Labs SBLive! soundcard installed, and am unable to get KDE to play any sort of sound at all. I do have the correct driver for the card installed (the emu10k1 driver).

Once I got XMMS installed I was able to get it to play my MP3's, but I had to specify that it should use the emu10k1 driver, with OSS. Telling it to use aRts did two things. First, it took away my choice of what device and driver to use, and second, it failed to give me any music. KsCD will also play my music CD's. But nothing else in KDE will play sound.

I've tried configuring KDE's sound using the KDE Control Module's Sound System (also found under 'Configuration' in the little menu thinger in the corner...), but to no luck. No sound when I press the test sound button.

I've tested and played with the settings both as root and a regular user, so I don't think its a matter of permissions on my sound device.

So, to my questions...

#1. Is the aRTs soundserver (KDE's sound system, from what I understand) compatible with an SBLive! card and the emu10k1 driver?

#2. If the answer to #1 is yes, how do I configure aRTs to use that card and driver?

My ICQ # is 86428337, if anyone knows whats wrong or needs more information about my system to help. Or just post here if thats quicker for you. Any help is much appreciated.

It's not so much interested in recording audio as I am in just getting arts to spit out some sound. I was told that KDE does have desktop sounds, like windows. And then there are the programs (ie, gaim), that use arts for their sound. It'd be nice if I could hear those sounds

I'm not sure what kamix is, I have a volume control thing sitting in the taskbar called Kmix. It does nothing.

And I just checked, arts is suspended. What is the signifigance of that, exactly? Obviously, it won't play sound if suspended, or so I assume. Unfortunatly, I can't un-suspend it either.

Well, I did end up getting it to work, though it was an accident. I ended up reformatting, and reinstalling Mandrake 9.2. I had installed an extra hard drive, and wanted to change my partitions around a bit. So, while I was in the bios setting up the new hd, I disabled the onboard sound card. I think that was the problem, it was confused with an onboard card and the pci SBLive. Once mandrake was reinstalled, I noticed on boot that it says something about loading alsa..... [OK]. It may have said that before, but its the first time I noticed. So, once I logged in, I spent more time trying to get sound working. I changed arts from Autodetect to use Alsa, and still no sound. Turned up Kmix, and i now have sound, yay!

Next task.... getting sound in WineX heh.