On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 02:51:16PM +0000, Tony Middleton wrote: > I've previously posted this to debian.user but on further investigation > I think it is a KDE problem. > > I run a sarge system using standard kernel-image-k7 and alsa modules. I > have an Audigy sound card which uses the emu10k1 driver. Since moving > to 2.4.24 I keep losing sound. If I revert to 2.4.22 everything works OK. > > Using alsamixer I can get sound to work OK on 2.4.24. However, > whenever I load KDE I lose sound again until I use alsamixer again. If > I go to control centre and turn off "load volumes on login" everything > is OK again when I log in. > > Haven't been able to find anything about this so not sure whether I > should bug it. > > Regards > > Tony Middleton > > I and some others have had some problems with the new alsa (> 1.0) and KDE 3.1. They aren't quite the same symptoms as you described, but in the end the solution was to set KDE sound I/O to use ALSA rather than Autodetect or OSS. There's something about OSS emulation in the new ALSA that isn't working, at least with KDE.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=232466 for more.
