Sound problems

[Marcelo Magno T. Sales]

Em Seg 14 Mai 2007, david walcroft escreveu:
> Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 15:59 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
> >> I am unable to get any sound working,my card is detected as shown
> >>
> >> 00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: S3 Inc. SonicVibes
> >>          Subsystem: Voyetra Technologies Unknown device 2010
> >>          Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 22
> >>          I/O ports at ef80 [size=16]
> >>          I/O ports at ef60 [size=16]
> >>          I/O ports at efa4 [size=4]
> >>          I/O ports at efa0 [size=4]
> >>          I/O ports at ef58 [size=8]
> >>
> >> My /etc/rc.local
> >>
> >> #!/bin/sh
> >> #
> >> # This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts.
> >> # You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don't
> >> # want to do the full Sys V style init stuff.
> >>
> >> touch /var/lock/subsys/local
> >>
> >> echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq
> >>
> >> # I2C adapter drivers
> >> modprobe i2c-isa
> >> # I2C chip drivers
> >> modprobe w83627ehf
> >> # sleep 2 # optional
> >> /usr/bin/sensors -s # recommended
> >>
> >> # modprobe -r snd-intel8x0
> >> # modprobe snd-intel8x0
> >>
> >> modprobe -r snd-sonicvibes
> >> modprobe snd-sonicvibes
> >>
> >> mknod c /dev/dsp 14 3
> >>
> >> mknod b /dev/sda1 8 1
> >> chown david:root /dev/sda1
> >> chmod 666 /dev/sda1
> >> modprobe usb_storage
> >>
> >> My /dev/dsp
> >>
> >> [david at reddwarf ~]$ ls -l /dev/dsp
> >> crw------- 1 david root 14, 3 May 13 15:58 /dev/dsp
> >>
> >> Can anybody help me please
> >>
> >>
> >>   Thanks   david
> >
> > Have you tried to look at alsamixer. Raise the level of relevant
> > channels and unmute the channels (with MM at bottom) by typing m.
> > --
> > =======================================================================
> > Am I accompanied by a PARENT or GUARDIAN?
> > =======================================================================
> > Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam at sbcglobal.net
>
> I have got the sound going via alsamixer but have found the problem lies
> in KDE,testing the sound in control centre/system notifications. works
> but not with progamme sound i:e "minimize" "close window"
>
> Thanks  david

Try using an external player instead of kde internal player. Set it up so that 
KDE uses artsplay for playing system sounds.

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Marcelo