Sound problems

[david walcroft]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Thursday 17 May 2007, david walcroft wrote:
>> Anne Wilson wrote:
>>> On Tuesday 15 May 2007, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>>>> david walcroft wrote:
>>>>> 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"
>>>> Not really relevant, but my experience is the opposite.
>>>> I had no sound at all until I went to Control Centre=>Sound & Multimedia
>>>> =>Sound System , where I found "Enable the Sound System" was off.
>>>> After turning it on, and setting the "Auto-suspend if idle" to 0
>>>> seconds, I get noises all the time, to the annoyance of others in the
>>>> room.
>>> I haven't been following this thread, but this statement caught my eye. 
>>> I always set "Auto-suspend if idle" to 1 second, and found it helpful. 
>>> (This from the time when I first discovered that aRts hogs the system
>>> unless you do this.)  HTH
>>>
>>> Anne
>> I think I've found a problem with this error
>>
>> "Impossible to start aRts with realtime priority because artswrapper is
>> missing or disabled"
>>
>> How do I restart artswrapper,it's in /usr/bin.
>>
> In a root console,
> 
> /usr/bin/artswrapper
> 
> I would think
> 
> Anne
> 
Okay I tried that,all it did was to kill all sounds - mplayer,soundcard 
detection,etc.so I stopped artswrapper and every thing works except KDE 
sounds [KDE starting up,KDE window opens]

Thanks   david