Chuck Ebbert wrote:
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.
I'd prefer to have this work, so install kde-settings-pulseaudio, but I
don't see such a package.
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Cheers
John
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