KDE audio (was Re: JRE on 4.0.1)

[Adam W. Lent]

Would you think that these changes are necessary, given that I have not 
experienced any other audio related issues in KDE.  In fact, when I 
first did the 4.0.1 ISO install, audio did not work properly.  A day or 
two later I did an rpm update KDE* and a number of KDE related items 
were updated (approx 6).  After this, all sound worked fine.  The only 
sound issues are accompanied by the lack of Java applet execution while 
in Konqueror or via the Terminal.  I'd hate to mess things further.  
Interestingly, I noticed that the Konqueror settings menu has an option 
to "Enable Java Globally" and has a path to the Java executable.  
Believing that this may be in conflict with the /etc/profile.d/java.sh 
file along with the PATH=$PATH:/opt/IBMJava2-ppc-142/bin, I deleted 
java.sh.  I received the same applet progress in the Konqueror Java 
Console as when the PATH was specified in the java.sh file.  However, if 
I put the java.sh path back in place and deselected the "Enable Java 
Globally" option, Java execution is completely disabled within 
Konqueror.  Is it possible that there are permissions problems with the 
Java JRE and or the PATH setting in the etc/ directory?  Something must 
be our of order here.  Thanks for your continued help with this.

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Daniel Gimpelevich sent the following on 6/16/05 11:44 AM:

>The KDE audio problems mentioned were in 4.0, but were fixed with 4.0.1's
>2.6.10-1.ydl.1 kernel. However, to take advantage of the fix, KDE's Sound
>System must be set to Open Sound System (OSS), and not Autodetect or
>Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA). You must also set up ALSA to
>emulate OSS and disable the real OSS, and you must do this prior to
>changing KDE's sound setup, preferably with a reboot afterwards. This is
>taken care of in the /etc/modprobe.conf file. The correct sound entries to
>put in that file for the 2.6.10-1.ydl.1 kernel were posted to this list by
>J. Sacco. I am providing a copy at the end of this message, but be advised
>that it has a few very long lines that will be split several times by most
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>On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 04:41:18 -0700, Danny Hembree wrote:
>
>  
>
>>There are mentions on the forums that audio related functions  will not
>>work under KDE but will under Gnome. Do your applets use audio?
>>    
>>
>
># ALSA portion
>alias char-major-116-* snd
>alias snd-card-0 snd-powermac
>
># OSS/Free portion
>alias char-major-14* soundcore
>alias sound-slot-0 snd-powermac
>
># OSS compatibility alias
>alias sound-service-*-0 snd-mixer-oss
>alias sound-service-*-1 snd-seq-oss
>alias sound-service-*-3 snd-pcm-oss
>alias sound-service-*-8 snd-seq-oss
>alias sound-service-*-12 snd-pcm-oss
>
>install snd-card-0 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-card-0 && { /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :; }
>remove snd-card-0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || :; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-card-0
>
>install sound-slot-0 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install sound-slot-0 && { /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 || :; }
>remove sound-slot-0 { /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >>/dev/null 2>&1 || :; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove sound-slot-0
>
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