Sound troubles from runlevel 5 (was Re: Adding window managers)

[Tim Wunder]

Stuart Biggerstaff wrote:
> How about Gnome or KDE started from runlevel 3?  Maybe something has 
> happened in the script that starts runlevel 5?
> 

I will definately try this angle... thanks

> At 02:34 PM 3/1/02 -0500, you wrote:
> 
>> I switched to gdm and still have the problem. Which leads me to 
>> believe that kde2's kdm is not the problem and there's something else 
>> going on...
>> I'll try some things tonight and hopefully get the problem better 
>> defined. It'm finding it hard to troubleshoot. All I know is that the 
>> app (the Gnome Wave Cleaner) plays WAV files beautifully when run from 
>> xfce started in runlevel 3, but doesn't when run from KDE, xfce and 
>> gnome started by kdm in runlevel 5 and doesn't when run from gnome 
>> started from gdm in runlevel 5.
>> The app DID work OK from KDE at one point, but not recently. I'm 
>> wracking my brain trying to figger out what's changed that could cause 
>> this problem, but am drawing a blank. I DID install a new CD burner 
>> and had some device file troubles, but that's all working well now. I 
>> haven't installed any new libs or anything. I installed eroaster CD 
>> burnng software to try it out, and the latest KonCD, but I can't 
>> imagine that being the problem.
>> I welcome any troubleshooting suggestions that come to mind ;-)
>>
>> Tim