[PLUG] Help on sound (was Help with Evolution)

[Mel Andres]

Ron Braithwaite wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 09:42 -0700, Wil Cooley wrote:
> 
>>On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 18:17 -0700, AthlonRob wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Did you restart gconf?  I find a good way to make sure Evolution is dead
>>>(to be restarted) after I stop it is like this:
>>>
>>>kill `pgrep evolution`
>>>kill `pgrep bonobo`
>>>kill `pgrep gconf`
>>>
>>>...assuming evolution is the only app you're using that uses bonobo and
>>>gconf.  :-)
>>
>>To fully stop Evolution, there's a (new?) 'evolution --forceshutdown'.
>>And you really shouldn't edit ~/.gconf files directly; use the 'gconf-
>>editor' or the command-line editor.
> 
> 
> Thanks, folks. I thought I had made it clear in a previous post that I
> had gotten it working again. BUT, I didn't know about gconf-editor and
> perhaps that can solve my current problem that ALSA stopped working when
> I fixed the browser issue. Nope, it didn't.
> 
> OK, next question:
> 
> For some reason or another, sound stopped working right about the time I
> fixed Evolution so it invokes a browser again. I have been using Alsa
> for some time, but I also notice that lots of stuff depends on aRts.
> 
> I suspect that some symlink is pointed to the wrong spot or something
> like that. I've checked syslog and Alsa seems to be starting nicely and
> is currently running. But no sound.
> 
> Any suggestions on debugging?
> 
> -Ron
> 
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On the suse-kde newsgroup, sound has been brought up frequently. IIRC, 
KMix, and KAMix need to be ran and settings adjusted.


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