Amarok and other sound problems

[Daniel T. Chen]

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Rosalind Mitchell wrote:
> No sooner have I got my Firefox/RealPlayer combination playing properly 
> through my headset than other problems arise.

This is due to most audio usability progress, at least in Ubuntu, being
targeted toward GNOME.

> The latest is that when Amarok starts up it reports 
> 
> 	xine was unable to initialise any drivers

Was RealPlayer running (meaning open) when you started Amarok? If so,
you'll need to wrap RealPlayer using the aoss script in the alsa-oss
package (in universe):  aoss realplay   [presuming you use the realplay
package from the dapper-commercial repository]

> Under Gnome I could set the headset as default soundcard - I can't seem to 
> find a way of doing this in KDE.

KMix doesn't yet provide this functionality. Note that the GNOME utility
actually invokes the asoundconf(1) python script backend. Use asoundconf
set-default-card to configure that.

Thanks,
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Daniel T. Chen            crimsun at ubuntu.com
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