santner Posted August 10, 2004 Report Share Posted August 10, 2004 I was working with some very large video files and accidentally wrote one to my root partition, filled it up to 100% capacity and when I rebooted received an error that my partition was full(obviously), but kde also sent an error saying something about the sound server crashing. I didn't pay much attention to it at the time because I had bigger fish to fry, but now I get no sound. :unsure: My experience in the past has never dealt with sound issues, always been AOK. Now I don't even know where to start. Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted August 10, 2004 Report Share Posted August 10, 2004 The soundserver in KDE is called arts. You can start it by typing 'artsd' in a console or by just playing a sound file. It is possible to shut down the soundserver in the KDE control center-->sound & multimedia-->soundsysten-->untick soundsystem activate. You will still have sound but no longer all the fancy tricks arts is capable of. Probably something got buggered when you had to reboot and a reset of the soundsystem should make it all right. If not try restarting ALSA (that's the part of Linux that let's you have sound) by (as root) typing /etc/init.d/alsa stop and /etc/init.d/alsa start. Make sure you have closed all sound apps, including kmix, else alsa won't start. Good luck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
santner Posted August 10, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 10, 2004 I'll try it as soon as I get home. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
santner Posted August 11, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 11, 2004 Still no sound . I tried both suggestions. First to disable it in KDE. Then to restart the alsa daemon. Neither worked. Any other ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted August 11, 2004 Report Share Posted August 11, 2004 Let's try to find out if it's a KDE user thing, a KDE thing, or an Linux thing. Exit X, log in as root and start KDE. Do you have sound now? Then it's a KDE user thing. Make sure you have killed artsd, open xmms and try playing a song. You have sound now? Then it's a KDE thing. Still no sound? Then it's a a Linux thing. If it's a KDE (user) thing play with the settings, maybe choose OSS, make sure nothing is muted, rename your .kde folder etc etc. If it's a Linux thing, go to the MCC, hardware, hardware, soundcard and choose config. Pick an other module (driver) and try again. Good luck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
santner Posted August 13, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 13, 2004 I exited X, started kde...no sound. I killed artsd: ps ax | grep artsd and then started xmms and played a file, still no sound. I went to MCC, hardware, hardware, sound and changed the driver for my VIA KM133 chipset, still no sound. Could I have inadvertantly muted all sound? How can I check for that? Also, this all started when I filled up my root partition to maximum capacity, rebooted and received some sort of kde arts error message. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted August 13, 2004 Report Share Posted August 13, 2004 Ok it seems to be a linux/alsa thing. Can you check /var/log/messages and post the obvious alsa parts. PS Yes that's why I find it hard to belief there is something wrong with your sound setup. The filling up can crash your 'sound' but it shouldn't be able to damage it. Usually a reset/reboot after something like this happened would fix things. Settings like mute, volume etc etc you can check in kmix or the alsamixergui Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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