System Notification's sounds don't work
 

I'm using Mandrake 10 with Sound Blaster Live!. The sound card is working perfectly because I can play mp3's and cd's normally. The problem happens when I try to set up the System Notification. I would like to be warned by sound when a message comes from Kmail or someone gets on line on my instant messaging application. But, it simply doesn't work. I can't even test the sound I chose... I push the "test" button and there is no sound at all. Although, when I play it by using a regular player (like Totem) it works nice. What can I do about it?

Hi,

It sounds like you don't have aRts running (KDE's sound-server).
Check if it is running in the KDE Control Panel under Sound.

Peace!
Carsten B. Jensen

aRt is running. I can even use the command "artsplay arquivename". But when I run the System Notification to configure sounds for the events nothing works.



I'm completely unmotivated to keep using Linux... When I was trying to configure the sounds, my adsl connection stopped working without any reason. There were been two months since I installed Mandrake 10 in my computer and I can't do basic things like navigating at the same time I see a divx video, or be warned with sound if a new email message arrives. Frequently I have to go back to Windows, because if I don't do it I can't do my job.

Sorry for the complaints, but I'm really mad with this situation.

In the file /home/****/.kde/share/config/knotifyrc StartProgress-section should be like

Arts Init=true
KNotify Init=true
Use Arts=true

Hope this helps.

Thanks myr,
I am new to this thread but that fixed my problem. Very cool.

A few days ago I got this warning that artswrapper was not running realtime and that I needed to make its permissions suid root. After doing that I lost all system notification sounds in KDE. Changing that script did the trick. Much thanks.

Now if only xmms would stop crashing...Thank god though for other choices.

tsw

Thank you very much, myr. Your solution has finished my sound problem!!!