2009/6/21 jedd <[email protected]>: > If I don't run jackd before starting kde, then kde is fine, but > running qjackctl fails to launch jackd. lsof suggests that knotify4 > and plasma are both using/locking the alsa device. They hint that > it's a gstreamer thing (but I thought *that* was a gnome product) and > not something for us. Trying to remove gstreamer (apt-get) reveals > that it is in fact an integral part of kde4.
This is a known problem. Phonon is an API which can have different backends. We currently ship two backends, phonon-backend-gstreamer and phonon-backend-xine. The xine one is the recommended and the one that works without problems. The gstreamer one has been reported many times to cause problems, especially that it locks the sound devices. It is a packaging bug that the gstreamer backend is installed by default and we will fix that soon. Now, to solve the locking device problem, please install phonon-backend-xine and remove phonon-backend-gstreamer (with this order; trying to remove -gstreamer before installing -xine will fail). About the jack issues, I don't know... I have never used jack. Regards, George -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
