Weird sound problem Part 2

[Amano]

I'm having some trouble getting the sound to work on Suse 10.0; the ALSA, OSS and arts sound drivers are all installed on my system, but when I enter the KDE control center and chose ALSA as my sound device, I get this error message when testing the sound:

The application Soundserver (artsd) crashed and caused the signal 11 (SIGSEGV).

Here is what I get from the backtrace (I'm not sure what to look for here):

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Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1".
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[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 1082323040 (LWP 9279)]
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[KCrash handler]
#15 0x400a3ae6 in Arts::PlayObject_base::_create ()
from /opt/kde3/lib/libkmedia2_idl.so.1
#16 0x08057776 in ?? ()
#17 0xbfbd37ec in ?? ()
#18 0xbfbd37d8 in ?? ()
#19 0x080d5b6c in ?? ()
#20 0x00000001 in ?? ()
#21 0x0000006f in ?? ()
#22 0x00000000 in ?? ()
#23 0x01bd37db in ?? ()
#24 0x00000000 in ?? ()
#25 0xbfbd37db in ?? ()
#26 0x00000028 in ?? ()
#27 0x080d5b60 in ?? ()
#28 0x080d5aa8 in ?? ()
#29 0x080db638 in ?? ()
#30 0x080db7cc in ?? ()
#31 0x080cd494 in ?? ()
#32 0x080d824c in ?? ()
#33 0x080d7cbc in ?? ()
#34 0x080d5dd4 in ?? ()
#35 0x080cd494 in ?? ()
#36 0x080cd494 in ?? ()
#37 0x080d5b6c in ?? ()
#38 0x080db46c in ?? ()
#39 0x00000028 in ?? ()
#40 0x00000028 in ?? ()
#41 0x4082a8a0 in mp_ () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#42 0x080da0d0 in ?? ()
#43 0xbfbd3828 in ?? ()
#44 0x406d3cd0 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6
#45 0xbfbd3884 in ?? ()
#46 0x00000028 in ?? ()
#47 0xbfbd3848 in ?? ()
#48 0x4068ce77 in std::string::assign () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6
#49 0x08053772 in ?? ()
#50 0xbfbd384c in ?? ()
#51 0x080a28b0 in ?? ()
#52 0xbfbd3884 in ?? ()
#53 0x403b48a9 in Arts::Buffer::readString () from /opt/kde3/lib/libmcop.so.1
#54 0x40059681 in Arts::ByteSoundReceiver::_Creator ()
from /opt/kde3/lib/libsoundserver_idl.so.1
#55 0x403cf876 in Arts::Object_skel::_dispatch ()
from /opt/kde3/lib/libmcop.so.1
#56 0x403cff0e in Arts:ispatcher::handle () from /opt/kde3/lib/libmcop.so.1
#57 0x403d0cf9 in Arts::Connection::receive () from /opt/kde3/lib/libmcop.so.1
#58 0x403d0ecb in Arts::Connection::receive () from /opt/kde3/lib/libmcop.so.1
#59 0x403b642b in Arts::StdIOManager:rocessOneEvent ()
from /opt/kde3/lib/libmcop.so.1
#60 0x403aeab1 in Arts::StdIOManager::run () from /opt/kde3/lib/libmcop.so.1
#61 0x403ae937 in Arts:ispatcher::run () from /opt/kde3/lib/libmcop.so.1
#62 0x08059c94 in ?? ()
#63 0xbfbd5d28 in ?? ()
#64 0x00000005 in ?? ()
#65 0xbfbd5e3e in ?? ()
#66 0x00000000 in ?? ()
#67 0xbfbd5dac in ?? ()
#68 0x40007fd7 in _dl_lookup_symbol_x () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
#69 0x40722ea0 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#70 0x080520d1 in ?? ()

The dialog box that pops up suggests visiting kde.bugs.org, which I did. Though there are plenty of reports on this bug and a lot of discussion, no one has a solution. I tried downgrading my version of arts and kdelib but I still get the same error.

The odd thing is, when I enter the KDE control to chose my sound device, I don't select arts, I chose ALSA. Why is arts crashing when I'm not even using it? Unless arts has appropriated the system somehow and won't let any other drivers load...Thinking this, I uninstalled arts from the system completely -- the problem with doing that is I get NO choice of sound device (the drop down menu in KDE control center becomes blank).

I also can't delete my sound card in Yast --> hardware --> sound; when I try, the screen just blinks but the sound card is still there...Anyone know what the hell is going on?

[Amano]

Ok, one part of the problem is solved; I upgraded kdelib3-arts to the latest version and the artsd crash I mentioned above has stopped.

Now the only thing left is to get the sound working; any ideas are welcome.

[klaas vaak]

My problems looks simular to your's. I also had two engines dissapeared in Amarok and have simular problems with the sound cards, My possitive thing is:
It worked fine with the same setup, but the next day it was all gone, maybe I did something stupid. Did you allready have a solution?