kde 4.2 pulse eradicate

[Anne Wilson]

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
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