Sound with KDE

[Michael Donaghy]

On Thursday 12 Jan 2006 02:37, Bob Jackson wrote:
> Hi, I'm  a real newbie, driven to Linux (and KDE) by MS vunerability for
> viri. Im tring to get my games to run on Linspire with Cedega. I get
> grief rom the Cedega gonfig tests about the sound. I read on the Gedega
> forum that tis is sometimes caused by KDE having exclusive use of the
> sound devices. How do I determint if this is true?

Easiest way is probably to run "aplay somefile.wav" (where somefile is any wav 
file) in a terminal (or konsole) window. If you get some error like "device 
is busy" then something has got the sound device, and if you're not hearing 
anything it's probably kde. If it is the kde sound system, "artsplay 
somefile.wav" will work.

> How do I remedy the 
> situation if it is?

Easiest way is probably to go to control centre, then Sound & Multimedia and 
Sound System under this. Look at the "auto-suspend if idle after..." section, 
make sure the box is ticked, and change the time to something smaller, say 5 
seconds. Then make sure you don't play any sounds for 5 seconds before doing 
whatever you have to.
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