[kde-freebsd] No sound when starting KDE

[Raphael Kubo da Costa]

On Friday 23 July 2010 11:32:36 Jerry wrote:
> Platform Version 4.4.5 (KDE
4.4.5)
> FreeBSD 8.1-PRERELEASE / amd64
> 
> There are no sounds or sound
notifications when I start KDE as a
> regular users; however, if I start it
as a privileged user, the sound
> system (sometimes) works. I can use
MPlayer, etc successfully no matter
> how I KDE. I have not been able to
find the source of the problem.
> Nothing appears in the system or Xorg log
file concerning this
> phenomena. Where is the KDE log file, if there is
one, located? Does
> anyone have a possible solution to this problem?
> 
>
Thanks!

If you are using a debug build, you can change your .xinitrc to
start KDE this way:

exec ck-launch-session startkde 2>&1 | tee
${HOME}/.xsession-errors

And then you can check if .xsession-errors says
anything useful.