sound problems

**klrmar** · 04-12-2002, 12:11 PM

I am rather new to Linux and I have been trying to find help with a sound problem. I am running Mandrake 8.1 but I cannot get the sound to work properly. I get music when I log on or off of KDE but that is the only sound I get. In Gnome I get nothing, not even the login/logout music. All the sounds on Enlightenment seem to work (although I don't really like that desktop).

When I use the control center it tells me my sound card is properly configured. However when I go into the KDE or Gnome config tools to try and get sound going all I get is the following message: " sound server fatal error: cpu overload, aborting".

Does anyone know what this message means or how I can get the sound working in KDE or Gnome. I figure if the sound card was not working I would not get login/logout music. Also, I would not be able to play audio cd's which I can do with (relatively) few problems.

I have read my Mandrake users guide and tried to research Linux error message on google but I have not found anything to help. Any suggestions would be most welcome. klrmar ???

04-12-2002, 12:18 PM

probably a problem with arts (the KDE sound server)

open a terminal, and type this
killall artsd

then try something that uses sound and let us know if it works

**klrmar** · 04-12-2002, 02:36 PM

when I typed killall arts in console I got this message:

"arts: no process killed". What does that mean? klrmar

**trickster** · 04-12-2002, 04:40 PM

I had a similar problem not long ago, had to do with rights. Try doing a chmod 777 /dev/mixer or chmod 777 /dev/dsp

**scanez** · 04-12-2002, 04:43 PM

I had a similar problem not long ago, had to do with rights. Try doing a chmod 777 /dev/mixer or chmod 777 /dev/dsp

Better to add yourself to the audio group

04-12-2002, 04:56 PM

when I typed killall arts in console I got this message:

"arts: no process killed". What does that mean? klrmar

i said killall artsd

[edit] oh, and the "no process killed" message means that there was no process called arts... that's cuz the process is called artsd

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**klrmar** · 04-13-2002, 04:33 AM

oops!!!! let me try that one again. klrmar :-[

**klrmar** · 04-14-2002, 03:32 AM

I killed artd which kill all sound. I then rebooted. When the reboot finished I was able to go into KDE config and it now appears most of the sound are working (i.e., login/logoff, screen changes, windows openning and closing). This is real progress. I am still having some problems with Gnome but I will keep experienting to see if I can figure them out. Many thanks for help. klrmar