kde 4.2 pulse eradicate

[JohnMinson]

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