Hi, Last month I ran into a couple of issues with sound on my AMD 64 Debian unstable system. First, I noticed speech-dispatcher was blocking my sound card. I solved this by setting:
,-----[ /etc/default/speech-dispatcher ] | # Defaults for the speech-dispatcher initscript, from speech-dispatcher | | # Set to yes to start system wide Speech Dispatcher | RUN=no `----- and now I can see a single "PulseAudio Sound Server" listed under System Settings -> Multimedia (Device Preference tab), and got sounds again. Amarok wouldn't play anything with the default Gstreamer (from the multimedia.org repository; I remember some conflicts between these packages and stock Debian) backend, so I also had to select VLC as back end to make that work. The other issue is that the master volume from Kmix doesn't adjust volume at all. Using other options under "Select Master Channel" in Kmix doesn't make any difference. However, using alsamixer, I noticed that volume can actually be controlled from the "Side 3" level. This seems odd, since the Master channel in alsamixer's GUI is at max. I must admit I'm very confused about the roles of Pulse, Phonon, Alsa, and the different back ends for controlling sound in KDE, so navigating this is quite difficult. Any help would be appreciated. Cheers, -- Seb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87pqpcgtxk....@kolob.sebmags.homelinux.org
