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Title: No sound under KDE

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No sound under KDE

Applies to

SuSE Linux: Versions since 6.0, 2nd Edition

Symptom:

Other sound applications (wav player, etc) produce sound, and the "system sound" option is activated in the KDE control, but no sounds can be heard during system events.

Cause:

The program kaudioserver, which is responsible for sound in KDE, led to system thrashing on some machines in some situations (for more information see KDE hangs during logout).

For this reason, SuSE Linux 6.0 release 2 shipped with kaudioserver disabled.

Solution:

You can reactivate kaudioserver by editing the file /opt/kde/bin/startkde and removing the leading '#' character from the following lines:
# startifthere kaudioserver
# startifthere kwmsound
IMPORTANT: In making this change, you risk the behavior described in the article KDE hangs during logout.

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Keywords: KDE, SOUND, KAUDIOSERVER

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Categories: Sound

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