KDE and ALSA
 

Greetings folks,

Just a quick question for you before I go ahead with installing Gentoo 2005.1...

When I install Gentoo I can never seem to get sound working in KDE (any version). It just tells me it can´t open the soundsystem and defaults to the ¨Autodetect" option all the time.

ALSA does work without problems and music will play in XMMS, Mplayer, etc.

I´ve always installed and configured ALSA *BEFORE* installing KDE - could this be the problem? Do I need to install KDE first and then set up ALSA so that it´ll recognise it? Or does it make no difference which is installed first...

I trying to make this system as visually user-friendly as possible to ease my Windows-using family into Linux without too much of a culture shock. Its for this reason I´m trying to setup KDE, I find it more visually pleasing than Gnome (although I would like to try other WMs in future).

Any help appreciated,

10x...

I have Gentoo and I only use ALSA because ARTS never work. It's no problem to install KDE first and then ALSA. Just install whichever you like first and enjoy! ;)

That may be the case, but whenever I install ALSA first KDE simply refuses to acknowledge it´s existance. I think I'll just try installing alsa afterwards and see what happens.

Thanks for your help,

10x...