On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Walter Dnes <[email protected]> wrote:
> At the risk of starting a flamewar, did you recently install a "sound
> server" (e.g. pulseaudio/phonon/whatever)? Can you temporarily disable
> it and see how the sound comes out?
Walter,
Thank you for your tip. This is the sort of thinking that will
ultimately lead to a solution.
I installed audio a couple years ago when setting up Gentoo on this
machine for the first. time. I followed the handbook. Since that day
I never again looked at my sound card setup. I do not know what is a
"sound server" and I certainly never installed one (unless part of the
install handbook has me install one).
Assuming for a moment that I did install a "sound server" and that I
want to disable it in order to perform your test, 1) How do I
determine which sound servers, if any, are installed? 2) How do I
disable them?
FYI it appears I have phonon installed but not pulseaudio:
* media-sound/pulseaudio
Latest version available: 2.1-r1
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
* media-libs/phonon
Latest version available: 4.6.0-r1
Latest version installed: 4.6.0-r1
Thank you,
Chris
