wow someone else with this problem! anyway sounds work, ie ipod plays etc. also in ctl center > Sound & Multimedia > sound system......test works. i can hear sound. drill down to sys notifications and try to play a sound there and nothing. so obviously logging in and out doesnt work either.
i tried renaming the knotifyrc file, log out and in, i see the new knot file but still nothing.

while we are on the subject.. why is it my alsamixer wont hold the settings. i noticed after the 3.3 upgrade i have to keep doing the mixer thing....getting a little obnoxious now. and yes im in the audio group


thanks for any help and good luck to us all.........

I'm with tw001_tw. Renamed .K* and still no sound.


********EDIT************

Wonder if this sheds any light.

after trying the above fixes, i tried:
upgrading to ALSA-1.0.7
rm -f /etc/asound.state
swaret --reinstall arts
swaret --reinstall kde

after the kde reinstall i have system sounds, sorta.
i do get segfaults whenever i try to change the hardware device settings.

vegas@VPDWK102:~/.kde/share/config$ artswrapper
ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:563snd_pcm_hw_start) SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_START failed: Broken pipe
ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:563snd_pcm_hw_start) SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_START failed: Broken pipe
can't register Arts::MidiManager
There are already artsd objects registered, looking if they are active...
ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:563snd_pcm_hw_start) SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_START failed: Broken pipe

Error: Can't add object reference (probably artsd is already running).
If you are sure it is not already running, remove the relevant files:

/tmp/mcop-vegas/Arts_SoundServerV2
/tmp/mcop-vegas/Arts_SoundServer
/tmp/mcop-vegas/Arts_SimpleSoundServer
/tmp/mcop-vegas/Arts_PlayObjectFactory
/tmp/mcop-vegas/Arts_AudioManager



im getting the above. i deleted those tmp files, logged out and in, stilll no sound.

Has anyone thought about passing this info on to ALSA or KDE themselves? After browsing various forums I have noticed that plenty of folks have similar problems, and they aren't using Slack either, so that tells me it is not just a Slack problem. It is either an ALSA or KDE or both problem.

Hmm, has anyone that has these problems installed both ALSA and KDE from source and compiled them themselves? Just to rule out any swaret (or similar program) related problems.

Just to let everyone know, I tried getting some answers from KDE site.
One of the places they said to get help was comp.windows.x.kde
newsgroup. Havn't posted in the newsgroups in years, but I have
started a thread asking for help in the matter.

If anything usefull comes from it, I'll be sure and post.

i always compile ALSA from source and i
TRIED to compile KDE from source with no luck
before the slackpacks were available

there are multiple/duplicate bug reports
...unresolved

well now im stumped.....i logged out and back in this time as root, not my user and guess what..sound.
so now i think that there is a permission issue somewhere. so at least for me its not a kde alsa issue, but a user profile issue.
i would rather not mv my .kde and have a new one created so im gonna mess around and see what i come up with.

Well having now moved all of my old *rc files to my new .kde directory, (albeit only one at a time, with extensive testing afterwards) I have been unable to get this problem to duplicate. So it looks as if my temporary fix has now become my permanent fix. No doubt there is a proper way to do this, but all I can report is what has worked for me. Sorry people that I can´t be any more specific. I suppose I could try to break it again, and may well do that at some point, but for now at least, I am tempted to leave well alone. Hopefully someone else will have a bit more success at getting to the bottom of it than I have.

i gave up to..... moved my .kde to .kde.bak...logged out then in bang i got sound

cp -r * /home/user/.kde.bak /home/user/.kde and all desktop settings etc. were restored.

hope that helps someone! im stumped annoyed and now i have to go see the Doc for all the smoke i took in

i had the same problem, all i had to do to fix it was to edit ~/.kde/share/config/knotifyrc

set: Arts Init = true
Use Arts = true

hope that helps

mine was already set like that and it still didnt work

Yes, mine is set that was as well.

Arts Init = true
Use Arts = true

The renaming of .kde didn't work for me either.

getting aggravating.
-tw

I'm happy to report that copying a new knotifyrc into my ~/.kde/share/config/ directory did the trick. Thanks for the help!