On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 9:11 PM, João Matos <jaon...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi list. > > The KDE phonon can't work properly when I plug a USB audio card (like a > webcam with microphone) neither recognize my bluetooth headset. > > When I used to try to use my webcam microphone, phonon got lost every time > I've reboot the system. It always asked me to forget the devices, as if > there were new sound cards every time the system rebooted. It also wasn't > able to decide which should be the default sound card. Sometimes it guessed > correctly, most the time not. Other problems: when kde had the control of a > device, none application outside kde were able to use it, as skype or > mplayer. > > The solution I found then was to disable the support from my webcam's audio > card on kernel. Without the USB card support, my system get back to normal > behavior and I was able to use the webcam. Of course, it was kinda extreme. > > So, I was wondering if use pulseaudio should fix it, but I'm not sure if it > can help. What do you think? > > Any help will be appreciated.
I've been using GNOME + PulseAudio since the later become stable in Gentoo. Could not be more happy: my usecase is very similar to yours: I have a BT headset, and a pair of USB speakers, which include a sound card. With PulseAudio, the USB speakers works automagically; I don't need to do anything, and I can change with a click where the audio goes out, either the included speakers, or the USB ones. With the BT headset I just need to pair it in the GNOME Bluetooth settings, and it's the same, I can change where the audio streams go with one click, and also set it per application. I also use PA in my Media Center, and the audio quality is... pretty much the same that without PA, but you get a lot of benefits. Just take in mind that I use GNOME; I do not know how different (if at all) it will be with KDE. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
