coverup Posted August 15, 2003 Report Share Posted August 15, 2003 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted August 15, 2003 Report Share Posted August 15, 2003 Somewhere on the ximian site, there was a post saying that the GNOME sound server esd must be started before evolutionWas 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjc Posted August 15, 2003 Report Share Posted August 15, 2003 Also be advised Evolution (Ximian) 1.4 is available http://www.ximian.com/products/evolution/download.html Pretty slick install, recognizes MDK 9.1... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coverup Posted August 15, 2003 Author Report Share Posted August 15, 2003 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". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coverup Posted August 15, 2003 Author Report Share Posted August 15, 2003 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted August 15, 2003 Report Share Posted August 15, 2003 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coverup Posted August 15, 2003 Author Report Share Posted August 15, 2003 No, evolution does not show up in the sound properties in gnomecc. Does it mean that the install is incomplete? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtweidmann Posted August 15, 2003 Report Share Posted August 15, 2003 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coverup Posted August 15, 2003 Author Report Share Posted August 15, 2003 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 towork 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... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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