Re: KDE 3.3 ** New ** Packages Tonight - Here's the scoop

From: bill (wmaples_at_westga.edu)
Date: 08/25/04 

Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 17:04:08 -0400

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 16:55:27 +0000, Luc wrote:

> Harry Fine wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone
>>
>> As far as I can tell, there were 17 new KDE 3.3 packages released
>> tonight at the Suse FTP site tonight, to fix problems in the Suse
>> distribution that have been discussed in this list. They are NOT yet on
>> the Suse KDE page here:
>>
>>
> (http://www.suse.com/us/private/download/linuks/i386/update_for_9_1/index.html)
>>
>> but they are at the Suse ftp site in both the base and application
>> directories. Here it is.
>>
>> ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_9.1/
>>
>> They installed fine. FTP them to a separate directory, drop down to
>> runlevel 3 (init 3), log in at the console and change to that directory,
>> then rpm -Uvh * amd
>> they install perfectly. Then go back to runlevel 5 (init 5). KDE will
>> start and run fine.
>>
>> I always assumed that the KDE section at the web site, was just a mirror
>> of the FTP server. I guess not.
>>
>> Harry
>
>
> Well, I downloaded the KDE version 3.3 previously when it came out for SuSE
> 9.1. I installed it on my laptop and there were some small issues, but
> nothing worse except that I lost all sound capabilities in KDE 3.3.
> No sound previews, unable to play sound files and unable to hear system
> notification sounds.
>
> Now I downloaded this version and installed it on my desktop computer and
> this time it runs fine, no software complications, no kicker problems
> except that once again I lost all sound capabilities in KDE.
> Sound itself works fine. Yast detects the sound card, test sound is played
> correctly but no sounds in KDE.
> When I want to preview a sound file, nothing is played. When I want to open
> a wav or MP3 file in kaboodle or XMMS it says that I don't have a sound
> card ??
>
> In the KDE Control panel there should be a button to save volumes. Mine is
> always at zero at login. Even if I put it to 100 I still don't hear sound.
> But this button in KDE control panel just isn't there. And I know where is
> should be.
>
> There are no sound problems in the original KDE 3.2 from SuSE 9.1.
>
> So no KDE 3.3 for me as it is a complete disaster to the system.
>
> Maybe I'm not the only one but this is a no go for me :-(
>
> Luc

The other day someone provided the following fix: load kmix,
set volume, and all it well!