This one has me baffled.

I installed KDE 3.4, and no sound. Well, thought I, I'll just select 3.3.2
instead. Still no sound. Bottom line: do what I might (including dumping
3.4 and reemerging 3.3.2 from scratch) still no sound.

No, the mixer wasn't muted either.

Ah, well. One of the nice things about Linux is that you can make a
*lot* of complete system backup images when you do major surgery.

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And so, D. C. Sessions just had to say on Monday 11 April 2005 17:34 ...

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> A: Top-posting.
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Can't help you but must say that your sig is excellent !
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D. C. Sessions wrote:
> This one has me baffled.
>
> I installed KDE 3.4, and no sound. Well, thought I, I'll just select 3.3.2
> instead. Still no sound. Bottom line: do what I might (including dumping
> 3.4 and reemerging 3.3.2 from scratch) still no sound.
>
> No, the mixer wasn't muted either.

Try 'aplay' from the command line (before and after you start KDE) and
see if you can get something to play.

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D. C. Sessions wrote:
> This one has me baffled.
>
> I installed KDE 3.4, and no sound. Well, thought I, I'll just select 3.3.2
> instead. Still no sound. Bottom line: do what I might (including dumping
> 3.4 and reemerging 3.3.2 from scratch) still no sound.
>
> No, the mixer wasn't muted either.
>
> Ah, well. One of the nice things about Linux is that you can make a
> *lot* of complete system backup images when you do major surgery.
>

have you unmuted audio? Alsa has a habbit of muting everything. Then there are
some bad written audio applications like RealPlayer 10 (Helix) which adjusts
the audio settings instead of having an internal volume control, so if you
turn off the sound in it and then exit, you won't have sound in any onther
program untill you have used the mixer to turn on the audio.


//Aho

D. C. Sessions wrote:

> This one has me baffled.
>
> I installed KDE 3.4, and no sound. Well, thought I, I'll just select
> 3.3.2
> instead. Still no sound. Bottom line: do what I might (including dumping
> 3.4 and reemerging 3.3.2 from scratch) still no sound.
>
> No, the mixer wasn't muted either.
>
> Ah, well. One of the nice things about Linux is that you can make a
> *lot* of complete system backup images when you do major surgery.
>

If you ran alsaconf again (you should) and it's still not working, check the
permissions in /dev/dsp. Also didy you change kernel? 2.6.11 breaks my
sound.

D. C. Sessions wrote in <m4eri2-31h.ln1@news.lumbercartel.com>:

> This one has me baffled.
>
> I installed KDE 3.4, and no sound. Well, thought I, I'll just select
> 3.3.2
> instead. Still no sound. Bottom line: do what I might (including dumping
> 3.4 and reemerging 3.3.2 from scratch) still no sound.
>
> No, the mixer wasn't muted either.
>
> Ah, well. One of the nice things about Linux is that you can make a
> *lot* of complete system backup images when you do major surgery.
>
I get this from time to time, and find deleting ~/.kde/share/config/knotify*
makes sound work again.