Re: no sound

[Arnold Krille <kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am Dienstag, 13. Mai 2008 schrieb James Richard Tyrer:
> Arnold Krille wrote:
> > Am Montag, 12. Mai 2008 schrieb Michael Thaler:
> >>> In System Settings, Sound, Device Preference: what is the Output device
> >>> for Notifications for example?
> >> Jack Audio Connection Kit
> >> Music, Video, Communications, Games and Accessibility use Jack, too. Is
> >> that correct? I think Jack is installed correctly:
> > Unless you know what you are doing, you shouldn't use jack. If you know
> > what you are doing, you also know that you actually have to run jackd. Or
> > at least provide a .jackdrc with your settings for the auto--started
> > jack...
> It may be worse than that -- it might not work for KDE4 even if you know
> what you are doing.  I can't get it to work.

Yeah, well, the problem is an old one: jack is intended for 
(semi-)professional audio. While many people use it for desktop-sounds too, 
that is not what jack is made for and its not what the devs support.
And real users of jack are quite happy to start jackd by hand/gui-apps with 
specific options on specific (not cheap;) devices (can be alsa or firewire) 
and have the desktop-soundsystem "just work" on the internal soundcard.

So what I meant with "if you know what you are doing" was "if you are a 
musician or audio-tech and really know jack". Because jack is not (and never 
intended to be) for the desktop-users, its for audio work...

Have fun,

Arnold
-- 
visit http://www.arnoldarts.de/

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

>> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<