Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (245 mails)

[todd rme <toddrme2178@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Marc Benstein <mdb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm using KKFD and pulseaudio has been missing from the sound system
> configuration since 4.4.0. Now, my intel (whatever) fails back to " device."
> on startup. I seem to be failing back to something because everything is
> working fine after that. I'm using the xine backend.
>
> What happened to pulseaudio in the sound system configuration?
>
> Pulseaudio is the only why I can get multiple applications to play sounds at
> the same time.

There is a known bug with opensuse where users are not getting proper
sound permissions.  Check to see if adding yourself to the "audio"
group fixes the problem.

As of 4.4 pulseaudio support should now be integrated directly into
Phonon, so rather than having a hacked-in "Pulseaudio" device, the
sound system configuration will now transparently display individual
pulseaudio devices in the device list if a version of pulseaudio with
the necessary patches is available.  See here:

http://colin.guthr.ie/2009/10/kde-plus-pulseaudio-does-not-equal-sucks/

I do not know if opensuse has added the necessary patches or not,
though.  If the patches are not present, the system should fall back
to just displaying the single pulseaudio device, so make sure the
permissions are set correctly.

-Todd
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