On Tuesday, 28 April 2020 19:29:18 BST Mark Knecht wrote: > Ah, so now we have more clues about what's going on. KDE supplies > pulseaudio.
Not here, it doesn't, as far as I can see. It may emulate it, I suppose. > AFAIK it's part of the KDE installation on other distros. I'm > running Kubuntu LTS, not Gentoo, so I have pulseaudio because it's what the > Kubuntu guys give me. You have a USE flag that __YOU__ took responsibility > for turning off. (I'm not clear from this discussion what packages have a > pulseaudio flag - multiple packages I assume? I haven't switched any USE flags off. This is the standard plasma profile, apart from 18 package.use files that have nothing to do with sound. > </SNARK> I have no idea whether rebuilding 19 packages and installing 10 > new ones is a big deal for your system, nor can I say what the impact of > those changes would be to the way your system operates, but you're a Gentoo > guys so you must (!! ;) !!)) love building packages and experiments, right? > ;-) (It's why I gave up using Gentoo for my desktop computers. I don't like > experiments so much anymore!) No, of course that many package changes aren't a big deal; I mentioned it to show what a big change would be involved to a previously working system. > > > Use KDE systemsettings, search for sound, choose 'Multimedia', Under > > > 'Audio Volume' what do you see? What device is set as default? (This > > > part of systemsettings is very similar to pavucontrol but it doesn't > > > give you the VU meters which are nicely visible to see what apps are > > > generating audio. > > > KDE system settings have changed since your day, Mark; there's now no > > reference to the hardware at all under Multimedia; only CDDB. > > Or your choice to disable USE flags has removed some of the 'features' of > KDE. Not so, as I said above. > Again, I'm using completely updated stable Kubuntu LTS for my > day-to-day systems so there are clearly differences. However I suggest here > that the reason there is no multimedia under audio in system settings may > be because you haven't included the pulseaudio USE flag. I haven't _added_ a pulseaudio USE flag because I haven't needed it. I haven't removed one either. > And I do understand that pulseaudio is sort of like Joan Jett singing Bad > Reputation. Joan, pulseaudio and by extension Mr. Pottering pretty much > 'just don't care about my bad reputation'. Sorry, those allusions are lost on me. --->8 > > Thanks for your help. > > Not sure I've helped so far. Sorry! Yes, you've given me several ideas, for which much thanks. -- Regards, Peter.
