KDE audio with ALSA and Arts, how?

[James Richard Tyrer]

Sean Schertell wrote:
> On Sunday 02 May 2004 01:09 am, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> 
>>kde at schertell.com wrote:
>>
>>>Can someone please explain how to get KDE 3.2.2 to use alsa?  I've got a
>>>2.6.5 kernel and alsa is running but doesn't really work with KDE.  Here
>>>are some clues:
>>>
>>>1) The test sound works well from the control center, but I don't hear
>>>the KDE startup sound or any other KDE sounds.
>>>
>>>2) JuK sounds a bit "garbled" when set to use arts output (unlistenable).
>>>
>>>3) JuK produces no sound and skips to the next track when set to use
>>>GStreamer output.
>>>
>>>Help please!  I don't understand how KDE and arts and oss and gstreamer
>>>and alsa are supposed to all work together ?!  Mostly, I just want to get
>>>JuK sounding okay again.
>>>
>>>If you have any clues at all, please enlighten me!
>>
>>I'm not sure of your problem.
>>
>>IIUC, you must have the latest version of ALSA to use with the new Kernel.
>>  Do you have ALSA 1.0.4?  If not, upgrading ALSA is the first thing that I
>>would suggest.
>>
>>There was a bug in KDE that you had to select ALSA in the Sound System KCM.
>>    I don't know if that is still necessary, but I would then try that as
>>well.
>>
> 
> 
> Thanks for your help... but actually, I do have the latest 1.04 ALSA and I've 
> tried selecting ALSA or Threaded Open Sound System in Control Center -- same 
> results.  I think maybe I've got too many sound modules loaded or something.  
> Any other ideas?

You must have: "/etc/modules.conf" setup correctly for it to work.

There are copy and paste level instructions for most sound cards at:

	http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/

--
JRT
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