Bug#295843: Installing libarts1-xine "turns off" the sound

[Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@iki.fi>]

Hi,

I'm not really convinced this is a serious bug, but rather an
configuration error, since libarts1-xine is installed by a very
large user base (including me) via kdemultimedia metapackage, and 
nobody else has complained so far...

On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 09:40:25AM -0500, Slaven wrote:
> For some reason if I install this package I loose all sound on my 
> computer (or better say all arts related sound).

Are you sure it doesn't just fiddle with your mixer settings?

> As soon as I purge the 
> package and restart kde I get the sound back. I am running clean sarge 
> system installed from scratch. Please let me know how can I provide more 
> information that may be relevant to this problem. I have Ensoniq 1731 
> sound card. Thanks,

For starters, are you using alsa or oss. And what have selected
as output device in kcontrol. Do the mixer setting (using alsamixer)
look different when using a "libarts1-xine" session than a working
session?

Does sound work in normal xine? what are your xine settings? does 
running "artsd" on command line result any errors? Any sound-related 
errors in ~/.xession-errors ? Those questions for starters atleast.