Soundcard problem

[Auke Kok]

Miguel Angel Sandria Arévalo wrote:

> Hi all:
>
> Actually I have installed in the same machine (Athlon, integrated
> soundcard) XFCE and KDE...
>
> My problem is this:
>
>  KDE detects and enables my sound card, but xfce doesn't, I have to
> use kcontrol in order to activate my soundcard in XFCE, this is annoying!!
>
> Somebody have a clue?
>
> As a note, XFCE Live CD detects (at startup) my soundcard, but when I
> use (in both situations, live cd and hd installed xfce) xfce mixer,
> there is no sound system running.



Xfce doesn't have a sound system, therefore you _yourself_ have to
initialize your sound in some way. Either use some of the alsa tools
available or enable the kde services in Xfce at startup (which is a
penalty, but still).

sofar