Well ok I guess I will have to just wait for kde to put out a fix. Do you no how kde does this? Will they put one out soon and on there site for us or will we have to wait till suse gets it from them and they do what ever they do and post it on there site? I dont mind not having system sounds except for Kopete its kinda hard noing if someone IM's you if you not looking at the screen lol. Hey its still better then windows junk. I am pretty much now using linux full time. All I need now is webcam and a few programs to replace my windows ones and Im set...Billly your going down heeeeeeeee

thank you for all your help NOW if you could just fly over here and show me how to recompye the kernal so i have webcam lol. Im learning tho


joey

You use ARTS??? But Why???
There's DMIX which does the same WITHOUT needing to run such a resource misuse piece like SOUND SERVER!

My advice:
Disable ARTS,
set up ALSA to use DMIX as a default output plugin (see http://alsa.opensrc.org)
set up KDE to play system sounds using aplay or mplayer (or whatever player you like, assuming it can use default alsa output and/or supports dmix and supports file format that your system sounds are - there can be some Ogg-Vorbis files among default system sounds on KDE which aplay doesn't handle correctly)

there you are!

now you can start timidity with timidity -aA and you'll hear both xmms (don't forget to setup it to use ALSA output)
and midi player;

there's also an oss wrapper script called aoss for applications that only support oss and block your sound card, but it doesn't work with all programs.

Sorry but Im new to linux and Im have no ideal how to do what you are saying. If you can give me a step by step how to ill try it.

Ok, go to KDE control center,Sound & Multimedia, Sound system, Disable sound system. Then go to System messages, click Playback Settings and type 'aplay' into the edit field. However, you must change all .ogg system sounds to .wav ones, bacause aplay can't play .ogg files.
So now arts isn't blocking your sound card anymore.

Hi guys I found a RPM package for suse 9.2 that fixes the sysem sounds problem. The link to the form was in kde here: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94918

but the direct link to the rpm is here: http://www.freewebs.com/sbsoftea/arts.htm

it said to reboot and you should have sounds I however had not rebooted yet and my sounds are working but I will reboot hopfully they will still be working.

joey

If you rebuild the rpms you were using in the beginning it also works.
Just "rmbuild --rebuild arts-1.3.2-3.src.rpm" and install the resulting rpms in "/usr/src/packages/RPMS".

Hugo Costelha