kde 4.2 pulse eradicate

[JohnMinson]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Sunday 15 February 2009 23:50:26 JohnMinson wrote:
>   
>> Craig White wrote:
>>     
>>> 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 .
>>>>         
>>> ----
>>> 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
>>>       
>> all outputs maxed out,nothing muted (that I can find)
>>
>> the digital SPDIF output doesn't seem to care anyway
>>
>> AMAROK2 works fine
>>
>> nothing else works sound wise
>>     
>
> Strange - I think pulseaudio is getting blamed for a lot of things that have 
> nothing to do with it, or very little.  I have it on three systems, all with 
> very different hardware, and for that matter, different distros/versions, and it 
> has not been the cause of any problem whatsoever.  I think it is a red herring 
> in many cases.
>
> Anne
>   
Thanks for helpful feedback