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FS#4039 - No event sound in KDE apps

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Arnaud Fortier (warnaud) - Wednesday, 22 February 2006, 06:56 GMT
Last edited by Judd Vinet (judd) - Friday, 03 March 2006, 23:57 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Architecture not specified
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7.1 Noodle
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Hi since KDE 3.5.1 hit current I don't have event sound in a lot of KDE apps ... no error message, alsa / arts are working in amarok / xmms.
In KDE control center the test sound button works ! But not the play button in the interface for assigning events and even if the button didn't work , the sound event didn't work too ! I've tested reassigning with ogg / mp3 / wav sound ... same result.
I have a Creative audigy 2 sound card.
Any workaround
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Closed by  Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Sunday, 05 March 2006, 06:52 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Wednesday, 22 February 2006, 11:15 GMT
you could try this script:
make it executable and put it into notification external program to use
   play.sh (0 KiB)
Comment by Arnaud Fortier (warnaud) - Wednesday, 22 February 2006, 14:35 GMT
Thx tpowa I'll try this. Do you know when it will be fixed ?
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Wednesday, 22 February 2006, 14:48 GMT
this is a workaround, kde 3.5.x had always problems with sound notification.
Comment by Benoit C (benoitc) - Wednesday, 22 February 2006, 15:48 GMT
sound works on kubuntu. So it seems there is a workaround somewhere. Maybe a patch dunno.
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Wednesday, 22 February 2006, 16:07 GMT
do you have akode on kubuntu?
Comment by Benoit C (benoitc) - Thursday, 23 February 2006, 00:56 GMT
sure there is in dapper. But you're right I speak about dapper ;)
Comment by Arnaud Fortier (warnaud) - Thursday, 23 February 2006, 01:16 GMT
According to pkg in dapper(testing) and breezy(stable out in october) repos, they use akode 2.0 and arts 1.5.1 ( see http://kubuntu.org/announcements/kde-351.php ) for a list of mirrors.
And under those two versions and on i386 no sound problem in KDE 3.5.1 on the same system.
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Friday, 24 February 2006, 11:24 GMT
removed akode from depends of kdemultimedia.
Comment by Judd Vinet (judd) - Friday, 03 March 2006, 23:57 GMT
Re-opened by Arnaud Fortier:

Still no sound
Comment by Arnaud Fortier (warnaud) - Saturday, 04 March 2006, 03:00 GMT
Sorry it's ok now I just removed my .kde and that's working now !
Anyway as a great workaround I propose:
make a script called : /usr/local/bin/alsaplay
With in it :
#!/bin/sh
alsaplayer -i text $1

Then chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/alsaplay and pacman -S alsaplayer
Open the KDE control center, Sound & Multimedia, Sound System and uncheck Activate system sound
Then in KDE control center, Sound & Multimedia, Notification opent the Player configuration ( button at the bottom left ), Select "Use an external player" and put in it /usr/local/bin/alsaplay

Restart you KDE session and oO ! No more lag on sound and artsd is gone ( about 30 Mo of RAM freed !! ) As a lot of player can use GStream / Alsa / Xine I've done that after.

Thanx for reopening the bug, for me it's ok and I've been able to write down here the solution and a complete workaround :)

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