From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 12 23:52:00 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4200016A41F for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 23:52:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@dfwlp.com) Received: from pollux.dfwlp.com (rrcs-64-183-212-244.sw.biz.rr.com [64.183.212.244]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11E4513C448 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 23:51:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@dfwlp.com) Received: from athena.dfwlp.com (athena.dfwlp.com [192.168.125.83]) (authenticated bits=0) by pollux.dfwlp.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l5CNpvUp073744; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 18:51:57 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from freebsd@dfwlp.com) From: Jonathan Horne To: kde@mail.kde.org Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 18:51:57 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200706121851.57408.freebsd@dfwlp.com> X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=no version=3.2.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.0 (2007-05-01) on pollux.dfwlp.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: cannot select arts X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 23:52:00 -0000 cc: freebsd-questions: i have 2 systems, both FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p5, both KDE 3.5.6. one system was built from ports (which for you non bsd'rs, is like building from sources), and one system i configured using pre-built packages from the FreeBSD packages-6-stable directory. the system i built myself from ports, all multimedia apps are working properly with arts. anything that would need to select arts as the output plugin, can (ie, amarok, mplayer). my other system which i built from the packages, has the same arts pieces installed as my properly working station, but none of the multimedia apps regocnoze this, and arts is not a selection in the drop downs. when i open a terminal on both stations and type 'arts[tab]', the exact same set of executable binaries shows up in the choice of autocompletions. this system, will play sounds (ie, logon, errors), but apps that specifically want arts wont work at first. if i get into all the places i can, and select OSS sound system, amarok will work for one session, but when i restart everything, back to square one. is there somewhere in kde that i can specify that i want arts to be an available option to multimedia apps? thanks, -- Jonathan Horne http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org freebsd@dfwlp.com