Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kmix/sound broken

2011-01-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 18:05:55 + (UTC), James wrote: killall kmix may not work in that case. It appears it is running as part of kdeinit. May not want to kill that unless you have nothing open that matters. Not sure what all that would kill. killall kmix did nothing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kmix/sound broken

2011-01-30 Thread Mick
On Sunday 30 January 2011 16:26:35 James wrote: Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: killall kmix did nothing Because, as Dale said, it's running as a kdeinit process. Use ps to get the PID and kill that. KMix won't stat if it is already running, even if that process has

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kmix/sound broken

2011-01-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 14:40:27 + (UTC), James wrote: ok, I ran a tail -f /home/user/.xsession-errors in one window and typed in kmix in another terminal window. Nothing logged and the command line just returned empty as though I just hit the return key... It's possible kmix is already

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kmix/sound broken

2011-01-29 Thread Dale
james wrote: Neil Bothwickneilat digimed.co.uk writes: It's possible kmix is already running, even though no icon is showing, try killall kmix first. Um the icon does show up in the bottom bar and under the kde pludown menu... Launching from either results in a bouncing icon