Evolution + KDE, no sound

[coverup]

I would like to use evolution under KDE. One nuisance remains though: the calendar refuses to play sound, a popup window appears instead. Somewhere on the ximian site, there was a post saying that the GNOME sound server esd must be started before evolution. I did that, still no sound... Can anybody help with this please? It's evolution 1.2.4, I installed it using ximian red carpet.

[bvc]

Somewhere on the ximian site, there was a post saying that the GNOME sound server esd must be started before evolution

Was the post referring to 'under KDE'? I'd imagine that gnome-session-properties or something GNOME would need to be running other than esd. I could be wrong though. Since when can 2 sound daemons use the same card? Did you stop artsd?

[cjc]

Also be advised Evolution (Ximian) 1.4 is available

 

http://www.ximian.com/products/evolution/download.html

 

Pretty slick install, recognizes MDK 9.1...

[coverup]

Thanks for the reply, bvc. The question about evolution+kde is answerd here: http://support.ximian.com/cgi-bin/ximian.c...prod_lvl1=2#q-8

 

I used red carpet to install all stuff which, I thought, was related to evolution including some libraries needed to play sounds (that what they said) As long as there were no dependency problems, I thought, I was done...

 

One of the posts from Google suggested that esd has to be run using arts as a wrapper, i.e. it has to be started as

$artsdsp esd

I did that as user, no luck though.

 

Interestingly, I am checking right now, I can't get evoultion play sounds under GNOME either! Sound from tuxracer is sweet, xmms plays chimes.wav, but evolution doesn't! Interestingly, an attempt to play sounds from Gnome control centre's Sound Events gives an error: "The sound file for this event does not exist. You may want to install the gnome-audio package for a set of default sounds".

[coverup]

cjc, I run MDK 8.2 Bluebird (KDE 2.2.2, Gnome 1.4), red curpet suggested 1.2.4 rpms for Mandrake 8.2.

[bvc]

Does evo show up in the sound properties in gnomecc? Somehow, it's not registering with 1.4....BUT from the link you posted

You can run GNOME Control Center inside of KDE by running 'gnomecc' from the command line.

does imply that it'll work.

[coverup]

No, evolution does not show up in the sound properties in gnomecc. Does it mean that the install is incomplete?

[mtweidmann]

Probably a stupid question but can you run arts and esd at the same time? It might be a problem as your running KDE not Gnome.

[coverup]

According to this post, arts and esd can happily coexist, but not for me:

http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/ev...rch/027935.html

 

Evolution uses esd (GNOME version of artsd).  To get Evolution sound to

work under KDE/arts, you need to do a "wrapper" script to put

esd/Evolution under artsd control.

First: make sure that all evolution processes are stopped

-> killev

-> oaf-slay

-> killall esd

Then: do one of the following:

Option 1) start evolution using "artsdsp evolution"

- if that doesn't work -

Option 2)use the following script to start evolution

->cat /usr/local/bin/Evolution

##

## Deal with Sound

##

#

# For Arts wrapping

#

export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libartsdsp.so:/usr/lib/libartsc.so

 

if [[ ! `/sbin/pidof esd` ]]

then

       esd -nobeeps -spawnfd 4 &

fi

 

##

## End of Sound Stuff

##

 

# For talking to Outlook in I/O mode

export EVOLUTION_SEND_IMIP_AS_ATTACHMENT=1

 

/usr/bin/evolution $*

---------------

 

A funny thing is that evolution is silent in Gnome, too...