[Bug 557514] Re: [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken

2010-06-17 Thread Jonathan Thomas
Fixed in maverick. Not much hope for lucid at this point, though. :( ** Changed in: qt4-x11 (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Fix Released -- [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/557514 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 557514] Re: [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken

2010-05-03 Thread Gabi Munteanu
Same thing hapend to me. I upgraded to Lucid and after a short period I lost the sound. When I try to use Amarok or when I test the device in phonon I get a message: The audio playback device HDA intel (ALC889 Analog) does not work. And no other device works. I tried to clean install the

[Bug 557514] Re: [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken

2010-05-03 Thread Bent Jakobsen
I just found this thread :) I also have the problem. A work-around which I've worked out it is: 1. Stop Amarok (if it is running) 2. delete: ~./pulse/*runtime 3. Start Amarok. At least it works for me ;) But I do not know if it will work for you too. -- [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is

[Bug 557514] Re: [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken

2010-05-03 Thread Bent Jakobsen
Sorry... step 2 should be delete ~/.pulse/*runtime - I'm very sorry. And then the sound should work until the next reboot. -- [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/557514 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 557514] Re: [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken

2010-05-02 Thread David Nemeskey
I completely second that. This situation is unacceptable. What's interesting is that Amarok doesn't produce any sound at all, while Kaffeine, Skype, etc. happily uses the sound card. Until I start playing a flash video in Firefox, that is... -- [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken

[Bug 557514] Re: [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken

2010-05-02 Thread Jonathan Thomas
KDE will not build without the latest Phonon. Not much we can do here. -- [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/557514 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to qt4-x11 in ubuntu. -- kubuntu-bugs

[Bug 557514] Re: [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken

2010-05-02 Thread Alex Wauck
This stuff works in Arch Linux with KDE 4.4.2 and Phonon 4.4.1. I don't know if they have the issues with PyQT4 and QtWebkit that were mentioned in the upstream bug, though. -- [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/557514 You received this bug notification

[Bug 557514] Re: [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken

2010-05-01 Thread Mark Greenwood
Try running mplayer in a terminal. (mplayer name-of-video-file.avi) You'll see it attempts to use pulse, then falls back to alsa when that fails. On my system there is no audio. I can get mplayer to work by specifying the full hw:1,0 alsa card name instead of relying on defaults. However when

[Bug 557514] Re: [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken

2010-04-30 Thread Mark Greenwood
It's even worse than that. I've just installed the Lucid release. Without pulse installed, any app that doesn't use phonon can't play any sound at all. This appears to be because the default ALSA routing is through pulse. Epic Fail. -- [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken

Re: [Bug 557514] Re: [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken

2010-04-30 Thread Daniel T Chen
Hmm, I can't reproduce this symptom from a Kubuntu live cd. -- [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/557514 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to qt4-x11 in ubuntu. -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 557514] Re: [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken

2010-04-27 Thread David Nemeskey
Daniel: this bug IS a kitten killer. I cannot get sound from two applications at the same time! The thing is, it worked in Karmic with pulse (obviously), but it also worked before with just ALSA! However, now since I upgraded to Lucid, it has stopped working. If the Kubuntu devs decide to ship a

[Bug 557514] Re: [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken

2010-04-25 Thread David Nemeskey
I have just updated my system to Lucid, and while I have Pulse installed, it seems to be disabled in System Settings. Also Jack Audio Connection Kit is now installed (libjack only), which I definitely had not have before the upgrade. Is this setup change related to this bug, or should I open a

[Bug 557514] Re: [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken

2010-04-25 Thread David Nemeskey
Daniel: would you be so kind to point me to this PPA? -- [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/557514 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 557514] Re: [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken

2010-04-25 Thread ghostautumn
Yes, please do Daniel, I am unaware of which PPA you're referring to. Thanks. -- [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/557514 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to qt4-x11 in ubuntu. --

Re: [Bug 557514] Re: [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken

2010-04-25 Thread Daniel T Chen
Ask in #kubuntu-devel, please. -- [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/557514 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to qt4-x11 in ubuntu. -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-b...@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 557514] Re: [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken

2010-04-25 Thread Jonathan Thomas
The pulse-aware bits are all in the main archive. There isn't a PPA. If it doesn't work, there's nothing we can really do about it until upstream gives us something we can package/support. -- [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/557514 You received this bug

[Bug 557514] Re: [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken

2010-04-24 Thread ghostautumn
does anyone have a fix - even a temporary one - for this? I can understand that this is an LTS and thus the dev. team's reluctance to rework libphonon, but if it is resolved can someone at least put this in backports? It's extremely frustrating. -- [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken

Re: [Bug 557514] Re: [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken

2010-04-24 Thread Daniel T Chen
There's an unofficial Kubuntu ppa with PulseAudio-aware bits. -- [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/557514 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 557514] Re: [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken

2010-04-21 Thread Mark Greenwood
Does the fact that this has gone very quiet mean nobody knows how to fix it? I can offer some time to help if required. -- [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/557514 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 557514] Re: [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken

2010-04-21 Thread Alex Wauck
I think the real long-term fix for this issue is to whine at the Phonon developers until the Qt Phonon vs KDE Phonon split is addressed. -- [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/557514 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu

[Bug 557514] Re: [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken

2010-04-21 Thread Mark Greenwood
I've changed the status to Incomplete, since 'Fix Released' isn't really accurate. It'll be a real shame if Lucid goes out with something this important still broken. ** Changed in: qt4-x11 (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Released = Incomplete -- [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken

Re: [Bug 557514] Re: [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken

2010-04-21 Thread Daniel T Chen
It's too late to ship this in Lucid final. -- [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/557514 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to qt4-x11 in ubuntu. -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 557514] Re: [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken

2010-04-21 Thread Alex Wauck
Would it be possible to patch the Phonon backends to hide the non- functioning PulseAudio option? -- [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/557514 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to qt4-x11 in

[Bug 557514] Re: [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken

2010-04-21 Thread Mark Greenwood
Re : It's too late to ship this in Lucid final. Typical. The release date is everything, whether it works or not is secondary. I don't mean to have a go but, really, I despair. I try hard to help and find bugs and this is the response. -- [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken

Re: [Bug 557514] Re: [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken

2010-04-21 Thread Daniel T Chen
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Mark Greenwood wrote: Typical. The release date is everything, whether it works or not is secondary. I don't mean to have a go but, really, I despair. I try hard to help and find bugs and this is the response. I'm working just as hard -- in my spare time -- to

[Bug 557514] Re: [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken

2010-04-15 Thread Alex Wauck
This problem is still present on my system with phonon-backend-xine 4.4.0-0ubuntu2, libphonon4 4.6.2-0ubuntu5, and pulseaudio 0.9.22~0.9.21 +stable-queue-32-g8478-0ubuntu14 (which I have modified to include start-pulseaudio-kde). I have verified that module-device-manager is loaded with

[Bug 557514] Re: [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken

2010-04-15 Thread Jonathan Thomas
I, honestly, have no clue. Everything really, really should be fine from the Phonon end of things now. Maybe Daniel can save the day, though? (Subscribing him) -- [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/557514 You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 557514] Re: [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken

2010-04-15 Thread Mark Greenwood
I haven't had a chance to try it on my system yet but, just a thought, have you checked that the build problem has been fixed in the backend as well as in phonon itself? -- [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/557514 You received this bug notification

[Bug 557514] Re: [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken

2010-04-15 Thread Alex Wauck
The changelog for phonon-backends says Rebuild for fixed libphonon. -- [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/557514 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to qt4-x11 in ubuntu. -- kubuntu-bugs

[Bug 557514] Re: [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken

2010-04-15 Thread Mark Greenwood
I've updated and I don't think the build changes have fixed the problem. I base this on two observations: According to the upstream bug, libphonon.so.4.4.0 should be linked against libpulse and libpulse-mainloop-glib, but ldd libphonon.so.4.4.0 shows that it is not. (If I run the same command

[Bug 557514] Re: [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken

2010-04-15 Thread Mark Greenwood
To further confirm this, I have copied libphonon.so.4.4.0 from my Mandriva install on to my Kubutnu install and retained my rebuilt xine backend. Pulseaudio support in phonon is now working more or less correctly: kcm-phonon shows Pulseaudio output devices instead of ALSA devices Playing back

[Bug 557514] Re: [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken

2010-04-14 Thread Alex Wauck
The PulseAudio output for both Xine and GStreamer backends still goes through the ALSA plugin on my machine with libphonon4 version 4.6.2-0ubuntu5. Do the backends need to be rebuilt? -- [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/557514 You received this bug

[Bug 557514] Re: [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken

2010-04-14 Thread Mark Greenwood
There are still 2 problems I think. According to the upstream bug, yes the backends need to be rebuilt. Secondly, I think the ubuntu pulseaudio package is broken in that it does not include the KDE startup scripts for pulseaudio (see the upstream bug). I can raise this as a separate bug if you

[Bug 557514] Re: [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken

2010-04-14 Thread Alex Wauck
I have reported the start-pulseaudio-kde problem as bug 563250. -- [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/557514 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to qt4-x11 in ubuntu. -- kubuntu-bugs mailing

[Bug 557514] Re: [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken

2010-04-13 Thread Alex Wauck
I have marked this as incomplete since it seems that further investigation is still needed. -- [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/557514 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 557514] Re: [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken

2010-04-13 Thread Alex Wauck
It looks like the problem is in the Kubuntu packaging: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=234072 The root of the problem, though, seems to be existence of two Phonons: Qt4-Phonon and standalone Phonon. Who the hell thought that was a good idea? Apparently, getting correct Phonon support in

[Bug 557514] Re: [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken

2010-04-13 Thread Mark Greenwood
Thanks for continuing to look at this problem. Two versions of phonon does seem like a recipe for disaster. Let's hope upstream can sort that out. As far as this specific issue goes, I've done some investigation - I'm not too clued up on cmake or debian packaging but I figured this would be worth

[Bug 557514] Re: [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken

2010-04-13 Thread Jonathan Thomas
** Package changed: phonon (Ubuntu) = qt4-x11 (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: qt4-x11 (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Fix Committed -- [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/557514 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 557514] Re: [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken

2010-04-13 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
This bug was fixed in the package qt4-x11 - 4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5 --- qt4-x11 (4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5) lucid; urgency=low [ Alessandro Ghersi ] * Update applications icons (LP: #350312) * Fix watch file to report only stable versions * Sync patches with Debian: -

[Bug 557514] Re: [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken

2010-04-12 Thread Mark Greenwood
OK I reported the bug upstream here: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=234072 The response is twofold: Firstly, libphonon needs to be at least version 4.3.8. The version in lucid appears to be version 4.3.1, which is quite old. Secondly, both libphonon and the phonon backend need to be

[Bug 557514] Re: [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken

2010-04-12 Thread Jonathan Thomas
Neither of these are accurate. We have libphonon patched up to phonon 4.4.0, and we do compile with PA support. See upstream bug for details. ** Changed in: phonon (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed = Invalid -- [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/557514

[Bug 557514] Re: [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken

2010-04-09 Thread Mark Greenwood
I'm afraid you're wrong. The functionality I have described works correctly in other distributions that use the same version of KDE. The problem is therefore most definitely in your packages. ** Changed in: phonon (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid = Confirmed -- [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support

[Bug 557514] Re: [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken

2010-04-09 Thread Mark Greenwood
As a further demonstration, I have another machine where I have been using the JACK backend for phonon (I have Xine packages with JACK support installed). This was working perfectly until the recent phonon upgrade. I am still presented with an option to use 'Jack Audio Connection Kit', which is

[Bug 557514] Re: [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken

2010-04-09 Thread Jonathan Thomas
We have the latest patches along with the latest stable phonon backends. If this is a bug, it's probably an upstream regression. ** Changed in: phonon (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed = Invalid -- [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/557514 You received

[Bug 557514] Re: [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken

2010-04-08 Thread Jonathan Thomas
Hi there! Thanks for reporting this bug! Your bug seems to be a problem with the KDE program itself, and not with our KDE packages. While we appreciate your issue, it would be better if it was tracked at https://bugs.kde.org, so that the KDE developers can deal with this speedily and have direct

[Bug 557514] Re: [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken

2010-04-08 Thread Ben Stolen
I can confirm this. Before 4.4.2, Phonon's backends used Pulseaudio seamlessly. For some reason, Pulse's device was replaced with ESD on my system after the upgrade to 4.4.2, and the new PA device actually routes through alsa and has obvious latency issues. -- [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support

[Bug 557514] Re: [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken

2010-04-08 Thread Mark Greenwood
** Changed in: phonon (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid = Confirmed -- [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/557514 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 557514] Re: [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken

2010-04-07 Thread Jonathan Thomas
This change in behavior is actually caused by the Phonon patches. Pulse support is built in to each backend itself, so you can use any backend with PA seamlessly. The only patches that we don't have are the KMix ones, because they are quite invasive and introduce a lot of new strings that we don't

[Bug 557514] Re: [Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken

2010-04-07 Thread Mark Greenwood
Thanks for the answer but I don't really understand what you are saying. You say I can use any backend 'seamlessly', but the Xine backend under Lucid is not using Pulse 'seamlessly', it is using an ALSA output and routing that to Pulse using the ALSA-pulse plugin. I still see all my ALSA devices