Hi John and thank you for your advice. On Sun 2009-08-02, John Culleton wrote: > With respect to sound problems on my Slackware system I had to > first deal with the alsamixer settings from the command line and > then free up some permissions in /dev. Whether this helps or not > on your dissimilar system I have no idea. I use KDE 3.5 or when on > a KDE 4 system I revert to the classic 3.5 layout. The KDE 4 layout > verges on the silly IMO.
I think that it's tied in with the plasma or kwin crashing, or at least it has a common ancestor - I'm seeing an audio error message (phonon dying) during the crash, with a message that my audio card - an M-Audio Revolution - is no longer available, and the sound system is reverting to the default device. I have only one sound device in this machine - the onboard azalia is disabled in BIOS. Now, pre-Amarok-2, for the previous couple of days, I was seeing these crashes with this error, but Amarok 1.x (?) was working just fine before and after the crash and auto-restart of kwin/plasma. And, as I say, these crashes themselves only started a few days ago. I think it's just a sound driver thing with the release of amarok 2 into unstable. I know I got some help on-list a few months ago with amarok and the phonon problem - oh, here it is - 20090621 from George, suggesting to install the phonon-backend-xine package. At the moment I have some savage inconsistencies with my dpkg database .. once I've resolved I'll fiddle with the phonon stuff some more (though the fact that amarok2 is keeling over after a few minutes makes me think the audio engine isn't the problem). J. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
