<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Gene Heskett <<a href="mailto:gene.heskett@verizon.net">gene.heskett@verizon.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">On Friday 29 May 2009, Kevin Kofler wrote: </div><div class="im">>Gene Heskett wrote: >> And that IIRC, was one of the things in my kmenu that never ran, ever. > >Then PulseAudio is not working. (pavucontrol at least used to just segfault >if PA was not running or not accepting connections because it didn't find a >working hardware device.) > >> And since kde4, we no longer have the name of the executable listed in the >> menu's, there seems to be no way to try such stuff from a cli to see what >> error falls out when it doesn't run. > >The pavucontrol name doesn't show up because the .desktop file doesn't >contain it. (It only has a Name field containing a generic name and no >GenericName field.) Complain to the pavucontrol maintainer(s) about that. >Where the names are contained in the .desktop file (i.e. for most KDE >apps), Kickoff will show them if you mouse over that item. Alternatively, >you can use the classic menu, which can be configured to show any >combination of Name and GenericName. > >> What do I have to re-install to make these utils such as what you name >> above, actually work? > >yum install kde-settings-pulseaudio >should drag in all you need. (You need at least pulseaudio and >alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.) > > Kevin Kofler </div>That pulled in: Installing : pulseaudio 1/4 Installing : alsa-plugins-pulseaudio 2/4 Installing : pulseaudio-module-x11 3/4 Installing : kde-settings-pulseaudio Now what do I service ??? restart to bring it up? <div class="im"> </div></blockquote></div> Just logging out and back in should do it but a full restart wouldn't hurt. Alternatively you could try opening a terminal and type "pulseaudio -D" which would allow you to see error messages if any. This is from memory so someone correct me if I'm wrong as I only have access to windows at work. Richard