SuSE 9.1: partial sound loss after upgrade to KDE 3.3.2
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Distribution: SuSE 9.3/Slackware 10.0 KDE 3.4 and GNOME 2.10
Posts: 41
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SuSE 9.1: partial sound loss after upgrade to KDE 3.3.2
Well, after spending alot of time tinkering after my last KDE update (actually managed to repair everything that broke ), I decided to upgrade to KDE3.3.2.
Guess what?... Something broke.
The current problem is that, although I have sound with video and audio applications, I have no sound within KDE itself (no notifications, startup, logging...nada). This is something I cannot accept, as I have grown quite accustomed to KDE's sounds. They comfort me.
Has anyone else had a similar problem? I am completely perplexed by this particular problem, and any suggestions on how to fix would be greatly appreciated.
As I have the same problem - yet unresolved I might add.
Apparently, for some people - logging out of KDE. renaming (or deleting)
your ~/.kde/share/config/knotifyrc file and then logging back into KDE works.
As for others, they just renamed thier entire ~/.kde directory and then
copied back some of thier KDE settings.
(not sure if that just does the same thing as deleting knotifyrc or
if there is something else that needs to changed for them)
Update your alsa, alsa-devel and alsa-tools from the packman site or from apt and the problem goes away....or go into kde control center and select OSS as your sound server instead of "auto detect"
Distribution: SuSE 9.3/Slackware 10.0 KDE 3.4 and GNOME 2.10
Posts: 41
Original Poster
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Arts was the problem. Problem solved.
For tw001_tw, and anyone who was experiencing the same sound problem as myself, downgrade to the arts package from version 3.3.1 of KDE. There seems to be a problem with the way arts was chatting with alsa. After changing from the arts-1.3.1 that's packaged with 3.3.2 to the arts-1.3.1 from 3.3.1, full audio is restored.
For tw001_tw, and anyone who was experiencing the same sound problem as myself, downgrade to the arts package from version 3.3.1 of KDE. There seems to be a problem with the way arts was chatting with alsa. After changing from the arts-1.3.1 that's packaged with 3.3.2 to the arts-1.3.1 from 3.3.1, full audio is restored.
Any suggestion where to find the 3.3.1 version of arts-1.3.1? The only thing I see on the ftp site is the arts-1.3.2 dated 12/10 -- i.e. part of the 3.3.2 release.
Distribution: SuSE 9.3/Slackware 10.0 KDE 3.4 and GNOME 2.10
Posts: 41
Original Poster
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The KDE mirrors have 3.3.1 for SuSE. Just have a look through one of the ftp servers, and you should find arts-1.3.1. It should solve the problem, but I can't promise anything.(worked on my sys, though)
Answer: Nope. But I decided to be brave, and grabbed the packages for 9.1:
For anyone else running 9.2 who wants to try the fix, here's what I did:
Code:
1) Download the following packages from the KDE ftp server:
arts-1.3.1-3.i586.rpm
arts-devel-1.3.1-3.i586.rpm
arts-gmcop-1.3.1-3.i586.rpm
2) Log out of the current session. Leave the X session running, sitting at the login page.
3) Hit Alt-F2 and login as root.
4) Change to the directory where the rpms are sitting and install them with rpm -Uvh --force arts*.rpm
5) Restarted alsa with /etc/init.d/alsasound restart
6) Log out of the root account, hit Alt-F7 to return to the X login and log in as usual.
Im running suse 9.2 with kde3.3.2 and except for system sounds all is well. I tried to go back to the older pagekage
but it says that i have to uninstall a lot of kde programs that depend on the new kde arts. So if i do what you say will
break my programs? like rythmbox or anything that may have been installed while running the 3.3.2 stuff.
Joey, if you follow the steps I gave above, I don't think it'll break anything. Obviously, YMMV and all that, but I haven't had any problems, nor have I had to reinstall anything.
Unfortunately, I don't know anything about timidity, so I can't give you any direct help there. You might try restarting the computer, just to be sure that everything is actually starting cleanly.
Or if you would rather not do that, try (as root)
Code:
/etc/init.d/alsasound stop
wait a few seconds, and then do
Code:
/etc/init.d/alsasound start
. If you get the same hang after timidity runs, I'd suggest reinstalling timidity -- perhaps it's looking for something specific in the version of alsa you had installed when you installed timidity.
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