kde 4.2 pulse eradicate

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 15:04 -0500, JohnMinson wrote:
> Well lets try and not eradicate it .
> So currently I have all of pulse installed (as best I can tell) . I 
> removed all of kde and pulse , my '.kde' directory  and all the '.pulse' 
> files / directories in my home directory . Then reinstalled kde and 
> pulse with all updates .
> After re-installing pulse I also followed the hints at 
> 'http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=206868&highlight=pulse'
> So the current problem is
> 
> amarok2 works fine
> 
> system 'boings' at start up.
> 
> nothing else works sound wise .
> 
> In the 'System Settings' ->  'Computer Administration' -> 'Multimedia' I 
> noticed that when I 'test' the 'PulseAudio' entry I get nothing .
> Currently the top preference on this menu is the digital coax out(IEC 
> 958) interface on my sound card .
> The reason for doing this is to try and stop the following from spewing 
> into the log file
> 
> Feb 15 14:13:34 localhost pulseaudio[3236]: module-alsa-sink.c: ALSA 
> woke us up to write new data to the device, but there was actually 
> nothing to write! Most likely this is an ALSA driver bug. Please report 
> this issue to the PulseAudio developers.
> 
> If I try mplayer with no options it seems to connect to 'pulse'
>    AO: [pulse] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
> And this also causes log file spewing so its trying to work but no sound
> 
> If I try mplayer with -ao alsa it seems to connect to alsa
>    AO: [alsa] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
> There is no log file spewing but no sound either
> 
> Firefox -> youtube no sound
> kmplayer (xine) no sound
> 
> any suggestions would be appreciated .
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sounds to me as if you need to use Kmix and go into the mixer and make
sure that you turn up PCM mixer to near maximum

Craig