another pulseaudio horror story

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Jan 7 17:35:06 UTC 2008


Craig White wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 11:33 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
>> Gene Heskett wrote:
>>
>>> On Monday 07 January 2008, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>>>> Gene Heskett <gene.heskett <at> verizon.net> writes:
>>>>> Add me to the list of folks who had to nuke as much of pulseaudio as I
>>>>> could without ripping out 2/3rds of kde.
>>>> Huh? What was it trying to remove and why (i.e. what PA stuff did it
>>>> depend on)? Normally the only KDE package you have to remove when removing
>>>> PA is kde-settings-pulseaudio (duh...).
>>>>
>>>>        Kevin Kofler
>>> I finally got working audio back, seems there is an alsa-pulse package,
>>> that because the list is sorted alphabetical, wasn't noted at first.
>>>
>>> Ferinstance, dependency hell.. Just trying to remove akode-pulseaudio gets
>>> all this:
>>>
>>> Humm, can't seem to make kmail insert a .png, and I'm not gonna hand copy
>>> that list, its akode, kdeaddons-extras, and all 8 pieces of kde-muiltmedia
>>> that
>>> will go out with it.  That's BS.
>> akode-pulseaudio is harmless, chill. :)
> ----
> Rex, for those of us on F8 & KDE, wanting to use pulseaudio
> 
> do we still need to load pulseaudio.sh per...
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RexDieter/PulseAudioKDE?
> 
> or does simply installing the packages handle all of that for me? I
> can't really tell.

Installing does everything needed. That wiki page was used to brain 
storm a solution.

Rahul




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