What is the root of the "no sound" problem for some programs?

[Paul Johnson]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 2:57 PM, dexter <dex.mbox at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Wed February 13 2008 19:08:50 Paul Johnson wrote:
>  > Concerning the sound problem, does anybody know what the real root of
>  > the problem is?
>  >
>
>  Sadly your kde system is infected with pulseaudio please try purging
>  or try $ mplayer -ao pulse <media-of-your-choice>
>
>  <rant>
>  pulseaudio was never designed with kde in mind and only as an after thought,
>  hence previously working out-the-box alsa hardware dies or performs badly in
>  all F8 kde systems I've installed until complete removal. YMMV
>  </rant>
>
>  ...dex

Well, I found that the "all of the above" approach, followed by a
reboot, seems to have fixed the problem.  I'm guessing that the
installation of  kde-settings-pulseaudio was the magic bullet.  I
turned on avahi, removed  But I did so many things before giving up in
frustration and going away.  Only later to return and restart and then
it "just worked".

Here is a list of RPMs that I now have installed as a result of running

yum groupinstall sound-and-video

Feb 13 12:39:58 Installed: alsa-plugins-pulseaudio - 1.0.15-2.fc8.x86_64
Feb 13 12:39:58 Installed: pulseaudio-module-x11 - 0.9.8-5.fc8.x86_64
Feb 13 13:35:24 Installed: yum-fastestmirror - 1.1.11-1.fc8.noarch
Feb 13 13:38:45 Installed: compiz - 0.6.2-3.fc8.x86_64
Feb 13 13:38:56 Installed: libkipi - 0.1.5-2.fc8.x86_64
Feb 13 13:38:59 Installed: libkdcraw - 0.1.3-1.fc8.x86_64
Feb 13 13:39:01 Installed: openslp - 1.2.1-7.fc8.x86_64
Feb 13 13:39:02 Installed: qca-tls - 1.0-11.fc8.x86_64
Feb 13 13:39:02 Installed: exiv2-libs - 0.15-5.fc8.x86_64
Feb 13 13:39:03 Installed: libkexiv2 - 0.1.6-1.fc8.x86_64
Feb 13 13:39:04 Installed: libcompizconfig - 0.6.0-3.fc8.x86_64
Feb 13 13:39:16 Installed: kipi-plugins - 0.1.4-5.fc8.x86_64
Feb 13 13:39:24 Installed: digikam - 0.9.3-1.fc8.x86_64
Feb 13 13:39:26 Installed: kpowersave - 0.7.3-1.fc8.x86_64
Feb 13 13:39:32 Installed: scribus - 1.3.4-3.fc8.x86_64
Feb 13 13:39:35 Installed: konversation - 1.0.1-3.fc8.x86_64
Feb 13 13:39:39 Installed: ktorrent - 2.2.4-2.fc8.x86_64
Feb 13 13:39:40 Installed: xine-lib-arts - 1.1.10.1-1.fc8.x86_64
Feb 13 13:39:46 Installed: kdeaccessibility - 1:3.5.8-3.fc8.x86_64
Feb 13 13:39:47 Installed: kdmtheme - 1.2.2-1.fc8.x86_64
Feb 13 13:39:51 Installed: kftpgrabber - 0.8.1-3.fc8.x86_64
Feb 13 13:39:53 Installed: libkipi - 0.1.5-2.fc8.i386
Feb 13 13:39:53 Installed: sqlite - 3.4.2-3.fc8.i386
Feb 13 13:39:54 Installed: libkdcraw - 0.1.3-1.fc8.i386
Feb 13 13:39:56 Installed: glib - 1:1.2.10-28.fc8.i386
Feb 13 13:39:57 Installed: gtk+ - 1:1.2.10-59.fc8.i386
Feb 13 13:39:58 Installed: libopensync - 0.22-4.fc8.i386
Feb 13 13:39:59 Installed: libexif - 0.6.15-5.fc8.i386
Feb 13 13:39:59 Installed: mikmod - 3.2.2-2.fc7.i386
Feb 13 13:40:01 Installed: xmms-libs - 1:1.2.10-36.fc7.i386
Feb 13 13:40:01 Installed: exiv2-libs - 0.15-5.fc8.i386
Feb 13 13:40:02 Installed: libkexiv2 - 0.1.6-1.fc8.i386
Feb 13 13:40:02 Installed: pth - 2.0.7-3.i386
Feb 13 13:40:03 Installed: gpgme - 1.1.5-4.fc8.i386
Feb 13 13:40:04 Installed: kdepim-libs - 6:3.5.8-11.svn20080109.ent.fc8.i386
Feb 13 13:40:05 Installed: libtool-ltdl - 1.5.24-3.fc8.i386
Feb 13 13:40:07 Installed: gphoto2 - 2.4.0-4.fc8.i386
Feb 13 13:40:07 Installed: giflib - 4.1.3-8.i386
Feb 13 13:40:09 Installed: imlib2 - 1.4.0-3.fc8.i386
Feb 13 13:40:12 Installed: kipi-plugins - 0.1.4-5.fc8.i386
Feb 13 13:40:18 Installed: digikam - 0.9.3-1.fc8.i386
Feb 13 13:40:25 Installed: kdeutils - 6:3.5.8-3.fc8.i386
Feb 13 13:40:27 Installed: kftpgrabber - 0.8.1-3.fc8.i386
Feb 13 13:40:33 Installed: kdeaccessibility - 1:3.5.8-3.fc8.i386
Feb 13 13:40:36 Installed: compiz-manager - 0.6.0-4.fc8.noarch
Feb 13 13:40:36 Installed: compiz-kde - 0.6.2-3.fc8.x86_64
Feb 13 13:40:36 Installed: knetworkmanager - 0.2-0.7.fc8.x86_64
Feb 13 13:40:38 Installed: kdenetwork-libs - 7:3.5.8-9.fc8.x86_64
Feb 13 13:40:46 Installed: kdenetwork - 7:3.5.8-9.fc8.x86_64

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Paul E. Johnson
Professor, Political Science
1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504
University of Kansas