On Fri, 1 May 2020 09:34:56 -0700 Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 12:33 AM Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> > wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, 29 April 2020 20:37:23 BST Michael wrote: > > > On Wednesday, 29 April 2020 16:24:31 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > > > > Have I to go the PulseAudio route after all? > > > > > > You do not *have to*, but if you find the PulseAudio server and > associated > > > GUI/CLI tools are convenient for you, then you can set up > USE=pulseaudio and > > > use that to mix your sound sinks and sources devices with. > > > > > > As Canek has already posted in most cases it just works. > > > However, I > must > > > confess I had a spate of pa processes racing up to 100% CPU and > annoyingly > > > respawning each time I tried to kill it. An update eventually > > > fixed > this > > > problem and it worked fine ever since. > > > > Well, after setting USE=pulseaudio and emerging uaDvN @world, sound > > has reappeared. I haven't tried multiple sources yet, but - one > > thing at a > time. > > Web-cam next, in between recommissioning other boxes with my new > display-port > > KVM. I'm getting too old and stiff for this. :( > > > > I'm glad you made forward progress! > > QUESTION: I'm curious as to whether your Gentoo and my Kubuntu > systemsettings are more similar. Did adding the pulseaudio flag > create the Sound->Multimedia section with an 'Audio volume' area? If > so that area, if working like mine, would show where you can send > sound, allow you to enable/disable individual devices and set > relative volumes, etc. Also, did it build pavucontrol or some version > of it? If so that app is almost identical to my Multimedia section > but adds VU meters so you can watch multiple apps generating audio, > etc. I find it helpful when things don't go exactly as I expected. > On my Gentoo system the KDE System Settings->Multimedia used to have the device priority section, but no longer does. However a search found another application called "Phonon Audio and Video" which displays the device priority. So maybe it has been moved from the System Settings in a recent version of KDE. This is with Plasma version 5.17.5. Further investigation reveals that Kmix has an option "Audio Setup..." that does nothing, but examining xorg-session.log it outputs the error Could not find module 'kcm_phonon'. See kcmshell5 --list for the full list of modules. which suggests a bug where either kcm_phonon should exist or kmix should not use it. Steve -- ____________________________________________________________________ Steve Evans E-mail: mailto:ste...@gorbag.com Registered Linux user #217906: http://counter.li.org Public Encryption Key: http://www.gorbag.com/public-key.html ____________________________________________________________________ 5.4.28-gentoo Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790 CPU @ 3.60GHz GNU/Linux 19:28:29 up 7 days, 10:47, 4 users, load average: 0.17, 0.39, 0.35
