On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Gene Heskett <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Friday 29 May 2009, Kevin Kofler wrote: > >Gene Heskett wrote: > >> And that IIRC, was one of the things in my kmenu that never ran, ever. > > > >Then PulseAudio is not working. (pavucontrol at least used to just > segfault > >if PA was not running or not accepting connections because it didn't find > a > >working hardware device.) > > > >> And since kde4, we no longer have the name of the executable listed in > the > >> menu's, there seems to be no way to try such stuff from a cli to see > what > >> error falls out when it doesn't run. > > > >The pavucontrol name doesn't show up because the .desktop file doesn't > >contain it. (It only has a Name field containing a generic name and no > >GenericName field.) Complain to the pavucontrol maintainer(s) about that. > >Where the names are contained in the .desktop file (i.e. for most KDE > >apps), Kickoff will show them if you mouse over that item. Alternatively, > >you can use the classic menu, which can be configured to show any > >combination of Name and GenericName. > > > >> What do I have to re-install to make these utils such as what you name > >> above, actually work? > > > >yum install kde-settings-pulseaudio > >should drag in all you need. (You need at least pulseaudio and > >alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.) > > > > Kevin Kofler > That pulled in: > Installing : pulseaudio > 1/4 > Installing : alsa-plugins-pulseaudio > 2/4 > Installing : pulseaudio-module-x11 > 3/4 > Installing : kde-settings-pulseaudio > > Now what do I service ??? restart to bring it up? > > Just logging out and back in should do it but a full restart wouldn't hurt. Alternatively you could try opening a terminal and type "pulseaudio -D" which would allow you to see error messages if any. This is from memory so someone correct me if I'm wrong as I only have access to windows at work. Richard
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