Dale writes:
> Elias Probst wrote:
> > Go to:
> > -> KDE Controlcenter
> > -> Sound & Multimedia
> > -> Sound-System
> > Uncheck the box "[x] Enable the sound system"
> >
> > If artsd is still running, kill the process.
>
> OK. That was already done as well. However, I killed the process and
> went there to hit the test sound button. I went back and artsd was
> running again plus a new one.
Strange. When I have "Enable the sound system" disabled, the whole dialog
becomes insensitive, and I cannot push the test sound button.
Have a look at the next menu item, system messages or something. Look at
the bottom right, playback settings (or s.th. like that depending on your
localization). Uncheck the first entry "use KDE sound system", and
instead use /usr/bin/playsound as external player (emerge
media-libs/sdl-sound for that). Other players might work as well.
> > I wouldn't use noatun. It's outdated, crappy, ugly and uses aRts ;-)
> > There are many other good players like Amarok. It uses xine or Helix
> > as backend which is able using dmix devices.
> I'm not using noatun, it appears that that is what KDE is using or
> something. See this:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # equery depends kdemultimedia
> > [ Searching for packages depending on kdemultimedia... ]
> > kde-base/noatun-plugins-3.5.7 (~kde-base/kdemultimedia-3.5.7)
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / #
Well, noatun for sure depends on kdemultimedia, but it is not needed by
kdemultimedia. What does "equery depends noatun" give? I get an empty
list.
And what about "equery depends arts"? It should list a lot of packages.
Are there some which do not have the "arts?" entry in it, besides noatun?
> For some reason, KDE is REQUIRING arts and noatun on my system. I have
> no idea why.
Probably noatun needs arts, and you still have it running. Maybe noatun
depends on noatun-plugins which you need to unmerge?
> Also, since removing arts, I can not get some thing to
> emerge because the arts flag has been removed. I posted the error
> earlier. Maybe it was noatun.
It was noatun-plugins. Remove it.
Alex
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