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this means: you have other programs g.e. xmms which do not use arts and these programs work? but only one program at the same time can use the sound card.
is this correct?

what audio device is selected in: control center > sound & multimedia > sound system > tab: hardware?

cheers

I have a similar problem in Mepis 3.3. External players have sound, but I have no system sounds. All sounds are enabled in control center, and I have tried both auto and alsa for the sound system. Also did an alsaconfig. Curious thing they are working when I log on as root. It does not appear to be ablocking problem because no other sound app is running.

ahhh I hate these sound questions....

you have all the needed modules loaded for your soundcard?
if you don't have any idea what I mean please post:
1) lsmod (logged in as root if you don't have it in your path as user)
2) your soundcard type

make also sure that alsasound is started?
if you use linux on a common distro you might be able to start it with:
/etc/init.d/alsasound start

hth,
cheers

Sound card is a ATI IXP AC97
No alsastart command in Mepis 3.3, But xmms plays sound through alsa so I assume it is started.
also the arts man has my very problem. It says to set permisions on /etc/dsp to read/write for everybody. However my /etc/dsp file is alink without permissions?

I am starting to hate sound problems too.


richb@1[~]$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
snd_seq_oss 30592 0
snd_seq_midi 6304 0
snd_seq_midi_event 6272 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 46736 5 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
Win4Lin 292936 1
mki_adapter 38756 1 Win4Lin
parport_pc 30532 1
lp 8748 0
parport 20032 2 parport_pc,lp
binfmt_misc 8840 1
nls_iso8859_1 3968 0
nls_cp437 5632 0
ipv6 231296 13
ide_cs 5892 1
pcmcia 16900 3 ide_cs
yenta_socket 17920 1
pcmcia_core 45632 3 ide_cs,pcmcia,yenta_socket
8250 18180 0
serial_core 18048 1 8250
af_packet 16648 0
wlan_wep 5760 1
8139too 21504 0
mii 3968 1 8139too
ath_pci 50720 0
ath_rate_onoe 7048 1 ath_pci
wlan 102620 4 wlan_wep,ath_pci,ath_rate_onoe
ath_hal 131536 2 ath_pci
snd_atiixp 15584 1
snd_ac97_codec 66936 1 snd_atiixp
snd_opl3_lib 8832 0
snd_sb16_dsp 9600 0
snd_pcm_oss 46112 0
snd_mixer_oss 15872 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 77832 4 snd_atiixp,snd_ac97_codec,snd_sb16_dsp,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 20612 3 snd_seq,snd_opl3_lib,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 7428 2 snd_atiixp,snd_pcm
snd_sb16_csp 18048 0
snd_sb_common 13440 2 snd_sb16_dsp,snd_sb16_csp
snd_hwdep 7200 2 snd_opl3_lib,snd_sb16_csp
snd_mpu401_uart 6016 0
snd_rawmidi 19744 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 6924 5 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq,snd_opl3_lib,snd_rawmidi
snd 45668 18 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_atiixp,snd_ac97_codec,snd_opl3_lib,snd_sb16_dsp,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_sb16_csp,snd_sb_common,snd_hwdep,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore 7264 1 snd
ndiswrapper 114356 0
thermal 11016 0
processor 19764 1 thermal
fan 3332 0
button 5136 0
battery 8324 0
ac 3588 0
uhci_hcd 28944 0
ohci_hcd 19080 0
richb@1[~]$

Solved the Arts problem. in ~.kde/share/config/knotifyrc Arts init and Use Arts were set to false. Putting them to true got my system sounds back. I am not sure how they got set to false, I did not do it manually

Your coments hephaistos06 regarding the .kde folder in another post helped get me on the right path. thanks.

well then please select alsa (if you have it because you write about oss)
or select oss. if you have "enlightened sound daemon" > choose this one too

in short: try the various devices...

hth,
cheers