Sound on F8t3

[Chuck Ebbert]

On 10/31/2007 04:45 AM, John Summerfield wrote:
> 
> I was fully updated yesterday. Today, the mirrors seem broken;-(
> 
> 
> I'm using KDE desktop, and sound does not work on my HP DC7000 SFF.
> 
> Except that when I choose K/Administration/Sound card detection, it
> works very well.
> 
> I've been playing with Control Center (kcontrol). The first time, I
> chose it from the KDE menu, and when I chose sound, it locked up and had
> to be terminated with force.
> 
> Subsequently I've run it from within konsole, and it does not lock up,
> but it doesn't play sound either.
> 
> I do get an artsmessage, to the effect
> "Sound system informational message" (yeah right, "does not work" is
> informational?)
> "Error while initialising the sound driver"
> "device: default cannot be opened for playback (connection refused)"
> "The sound system will continue, using the null device."
> 
> Further testing:
> Autodetect doesn't.
> OSS works.
> ALSA does not.
> ESD does not.
> 

Either erase pulseaudio and pulseaudio-plugins-alsa, or install
kde-settings-pulseaudio.