KDE audio with ALSA and Arts, how?

[Sean Schertell]

On Sunday 02 May 2004 02:32 pm, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> 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


Thanks JRT,

Actually, I think I read somewhere that that file is no longer relevant under 
a 2.6 kernel.  Can't remember what you're supposed to do instead -- I worked 
on this for about 10 hours so I read a *lot* of stuff... but I still don't 
understand how all of these things are supposed to work together:

* arts
* arstd
* oss
* alsa
* alsa with oss compatibility
* gstreamer

Crikey, could they possibly make sound any more confusing on Linux even if 
they tried?!  :-(

Sean

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