Hi,

I don't get any system sounds out of my opensuse 11 kde 4.1 installation :(.
Even tho Amarok plays music smoothly I don't get any system sounds, e.g.
kopete notifications. Also Ktts wouldn't say anything and just tell me to
configure it. But when I wanna open the configuration dialog i get an error
message: "A Fatal Error Occurred
The application KDE Control Module (kcmshell4) crashed and caused the signal
11 (SIGSEGV).
Please help us improve the software you use by filing a report at
http://bugs.kde.org. Useful details include how to reproduce the error,
documents that were loaded, etc."

What's going wrong here, what am I missing? Sound example in Yast plays fine
too.

Thank you!
--
weeks of coding safes hours of planning

Ron Eggler wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I don't get any system sounds out of my opensuse 11 kde 4.1 installation
> :(. Even tho Amarok plays music smoothly I don't get any system sounds,
> e.g. kopete notifications. Also Ktts wouldn't say anything and just tell
> me to configure it. But when I wanna open the configuration dialog i get
> an error message: "A Fatal Error Occurred
> The application KDE Control Module (kcmshell4) crashed and caused the
> signal 11 (SIGSEGV).
> Please help us improve the software you use by filing a report at
> http://bugs.kde.org. Useful details include how to reproduce the error,
> documents that were loaded, etc."
>
> What's going wrong here, what am I missing? Sound example in Yast plays
> fine too.
>
> Thank you!


The Devices I see under "Sound - System Settings" in "System Settings - Sound" are:
HDA Intel(ALC883 Analog)
HDA Intel (ALC883 Digital) #1
HDA Intel ALC883 Digital (IEC958 S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output)
default
hw:0,0
hw:0,1
HDA Intel (ALC883 Digital) (grayed out)
HDA Intel (ALC883 Analog) (grayed out)

I've tried every device on top and for some of them i get a message saying
that the device wouldn't work and kde is falling back to the next in the
list.
I have connected the amplifier on the connector on the back and Amarok
always plays, no matter what order the devices in this list are in - any
ideas?
Hints would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you!

Ron

--
weeks of coding safes hours of planning

On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:34:49 +0000, Ron Eggler typed this message:

> Ron Eggler wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I don't get any system sounds out of my opensuse 11 kde 4.1
>> installation :(. Even tho Amarok plays music smoothly I don't get any
>> system sounds, e.g. kopete notifications. Also Ktts wouldn't say
>> anything and just tell me to configure it. But when I wanna open the
>> configuration dialog i get an error message: "A Fatal Error Occurred
>> The application KDE Control Module (kcmshell4) crashed and caused the
>> signal 11 (SIGSEGV).
>> Please help us improve the software you use by filing a report at
>> http://bugs.kde.org. Useful details include how to reproduce the error,
>> documents that were loaded, etc."
>>
>> What's going wrong here, what am I missing? Sound example in Yast plays
>> fine too.
>>
>> Thank you!
>
>
> The Devices I see under "Sound - System Settings" in "System Settings -
> Sound" are: HDA Intel(ALC883 Analog)
> HDA Intel (ALC883 Digital) #1
> HDA Intel ALC883 Digital (IEC958 S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output) default
> hw:0,0
> hw:0,1
> HDA Intel (ALC883 Digital) (grayed out) HDA Intel (ALC883 Analog)
> (grayed out)
>
> I've tried every device on top and for some of them i get a message
> saying that the device wouldn't work and kde is falling back to the next
> in the list.
> I have connected the amplifier on the connector on the back and Amarok
> always plays, no matter what order the devices in this list are in - any
> ideas?
> Hints would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Thank you!
>
> Ron

Not sure if you're having the same problem as I did with Pulse Audio and
system sounds. There's a webpage "perfect pulse sound or perfect sound
pulse audio" that lists a bunch of workarounds for pulse audio.

In my case I added a command to .bashrc for Gnome ESD (Esound). But I
also found I had to delete an outdated ~/.esd_* file from my home
folder. Now my system sounds seem to be working though I haven't heard
the logout sound or email_sounds yet.

noi ance wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:34:49 +0000, Ron Eggler typed this message:
>
>> Ron Eggler wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I don't get any system sounds out of my opensuse 11 kde 4.1
>>> installation :(. Even tho Amarok plays music smoothly I don't get any
>>> system sounds, e.g. kopete notifications. Also Ktts wouldn't say
>>> anything and just tell me to configure it. But when I wanna open the
>>> configuration dialog i get an error message: "A Fatal Error Occurred
>>> The application KDE Control Module (kcmshell4) crashed and caused the
>>> signal 11 (SIGSEGV).
>>> Please help us improve the software you use by filing a report at
>>> http://bugs.kde.org. Useful details include how to reproduce the error,
>>> documents that were loaded, etc."
>>>
>>> What's going wrong here, what am I missing? Sound example in Yast plays
>>> fine too.
>>>
>>> Thank you!
>>
>>
>> The Devices I see under "Sound - System Settings" in "System Settings -
>> Sound" are: HDA Intel(ALC883 Analog)
>> HDA Intel (ALC883 Digital) #1
>> HDA Intel ALC883 Digital (IEC958 S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output) default
>> hw:0,0
>> hw:0,1
>> HDA Intel (ALC883 Digital) (grayed out) HDA Intel (ALC883 Analog)
>> (grayed out)
>>
>> I've tried every device on top and for some of them i get a message
>> saying that the device wouldn't work and kde is falling back to the next
>> in the list.
>> I have connected the amplifier on the connector on the back and Amarok
>> always plays, no matter what order the devices in this list are in - any
>> ideas?
>> Hints would be greatly appreciated!
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>> Ron
>
> Not sure if you're having the same problem as I did with Pulse Audio and
> system sounds. There's a webpage "perfect pulse sound or perfect sound
> pulse audio" that lists a bunch of workarounds for pulse audio.
>
> In my case I added a command to .bashrc for Gnome ESD (Esound). But I
> also found I had to delete an outdated ~/.esd_* file from my home
> folder. Now my system sounds seem to be working though I haven't heard
> the logout sound or email_sounds yet.

What command did you add to your .bashrc?
I renamed the ~/.esd_auth I had to ~/.esd_auth~ - let's see on next bootup
if this helped.... Doubt it tho... but who knows... thanks for sure for this
hint!

Ron

--
weeks of coding safes hours of planning

On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:18:54 +0000, Ron Eggler typed this message:

> noi ance wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:34:49 +0000, Ron Eggler typed this message:
>>
>>> Ron Eggler wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I don't get any system sounds out of my opensuse 11 kde 4.1
>>>> installation :(. Even tho Amarok plays music smoothly I don't get any
>>>> system sounds, e.g. kopete notifications. Also Ktts wouldn't say
>>>> anything and just tell me to configure it. But when I wanna open the
>>>> configuration dialog i get an error message: "A Fatal Error Occurred
>>>> The application KDE Control Module (kcmshell4) crashed and caused the
>>>> signal 11 (SIGSEGV).
>>>> Please help us improve the software you use by filing a report at
>>>> http://bugs.kde.org. Useful details include how to reproduce the
>>>> error, documents that were loaded, etc."
>>>>
>>>> What's going wrong here, what am I missing? Sound example in Yast
>>>> plays fine too.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you!
>>>
>>>
>>> The Devices I see under "Sound - System Settings" in "System Settings
>>> - Sound" are: HDA Intel(ALC883 Analog)
>>> HDA Intel (ALC883 Digital) #1
>>> HDA Intel ALC883 Digital (IEC958 S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output) default
>>> hw:0,0
>>> hw:0,1
>>> HDA Intel (ALC883 Digital) (grayed out) HDA Intel (ALC883 Analog)
>>> (grayed out)
>>>
>>> I've tried every device on top and for some of them i get a message
>>> saying that the device wouldn't work and kde is falling back to the
>>> next in the list.
>>> I have connected the amplifier on the connector on the back and Amarok
>>> always plays, no matter what order the devices in this list are in -
>>> any ideas?
>>> Hints would be greatly appreciated!
>>>
>>> Thank you!
>>>
>>> Ron
>>
>> Not sure if you're having the same problem as I did with Pulse Audio
>> and system sounds. There's a webpage "perfect pulse sound or perfect
>> sound pulse audio" that lists a bunch of workarounds for pulse audio.
>>
>> In my case I added a command to .bashrc for Gnome ESD (Esound). But I
>> also found I had to delete an outdated ~/.esd_* file from my home
>> folder. Now my system sounds seem to be working though I haven't
>> heard the logout sound or email_sounds yet.
>
> What command did you add to your .bashrc? I renamed the ~/.esd_auth I
> had to ~/.esd_auth~ - let's see on next bootup if this helped.... Doubt
> it tho... but who knows... thanks for sure for this hint!
>
> Ron

Actually I only needed it once.

if [ ! -e /tmp/.esd-${UID} ]; then
ln -s /tmp/.esd /tmp/.esd-${UID}


created a /tmp/.esd-${UID}

That was for Gnome ESD.

Maybe http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup solution for KDE will
work for you.