Re: KDE2.1 and sound
On March 15, 2001, Fabian Jakobs <fabian.jakobs@web.de> writes:
>I recently installed KDE2 but I can't get the sound support working.
>xmms works fine but as soon as a KDE-Application plays sound using
>the arts server I get only strange speaker killing noise.
>I'm using sid with kernel 2.4.1 on a PowerMac G4 AGP.
>Does anyone have a hint to get it working?
I'm having the same problem, also with a PowerMac G4 AGP,
but using KDE 2.1.1 for potato, and kernel 2.2.18.
My only clue is an old message from Kevin Puetz
<puetzk@iastate.edu> dated Aug 31, 2000:
>aRts (the soundserver) does not currently work on PowerPC,
>so many of the multimedia apps will be silent - I have
>some fixes locally that make it work, but they need more
>polishing before they go in.
Perhaps these fixes never made it into the final distribution?
(It appears that the combination of debian-powerppc and KDE
is somewhat rare and unusual. Most developers posting to
this list seem to be using GNOME...maybe I should switch?)
Reply to: