I also had trouble getting sound to work with kde applications. Kde's sound works through Qt's Phonon. So you have to have phonon support compiled into Qt. This depends on GStreamer, and will build a gstreamer backend for phonon. Kde will also build a xine backend for phonon, if it finds xine.
The first thing to try would be to open up the systemsettings app and go to the Multimedia module. You can then select different output devices to be the default device, and test them. The one listed at the top is the preferred device. If none of them work, try switching phonon backends. Click the "Backend" tab. The default one is Xine, if that was compiled, but there should also be a GStreamer one. Try making GStreamer the preferred one, and then testing the devices again. Hope that helps. On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 6:12 AM, lux-integ <[email protected]> wrote: > On Saturday 09 May 2009 12:39:09 pm Simon Geard wrote: >> On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 13:43 +0100, lux-integ wrote: >> > The alsamixer levels are all 'up'. In kde kmix and other audio >> > applications still refuse to budge. >> >> Not just up, but un-muted? Alsamixer is a somewhat clunky interface, and >> it's pretty easy to have the volumes maxed out without noticing that >> they're also muted... > > spot on. > I unmuted them (using the MM at the bottom of each bar) and now there is > sound. Thanks for the help (I had not used alsamixer before). > > However all I get is a 'pop' in KDE and kmix (and other audio applications) > still refuse to budge. > > QUESTION(s): > 1) Is recompilation of kdemultimedia-4.2.1 necessary because compilation > of alsa-utilities-1.0.18 came after? OR > 2) Is there some way to start kde that allows multimedia facilities > such as kmix to be enabled? > > > sincerely > lux-integ > > > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
