Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1761 mails)

[Ken Schneider - openSUSE <suse-list3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 08/18/2010 05:16 PM, Ken Schneider - openSUSE pecked at the keyboard
and wrote:
> On 08/18/2010 02:44 PM, Will Stephenson pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
> > On Wednesday 18 August 2010 19:33:15 Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote:
> > > I am getting an error for a sound device that doesn't exist and it is
> > > causing sound problems.
> > >
> > > openSUSE 11.2 running KDE 4.5
> >
> > Did it work before you upgraded to 4.5?
>
> How could it, it does not now nor has it ever existed. The only Nvidia
> device in my PC is my GeForce 8400 GS graphics card. And the only sound
> device I have is the USB Soundblaster device. lspci shows no such Nvidia
> sound device and lsusb only shows the SB usb sound device.
>
> > I had another report where it turned out the user started KDE from startx 
> > instead of KDM.  This bypasses the consolekit-based setting of permissions 
> > on 
> > the sound devices.
> >
> > We looked at the permissions and ACLs on /dev/snd* and saw he had no access 
> > to 
> > the sound devices. (using ls -l and getfacl).
> >
> > You can also try wiping out ~/.kde4/share/config/phonondevicesrc - this did 
> > not help in the above case though.
>
> OK I'll try that.

That solved the problem. I believe (failing memory) that the info in the
file was carried over from another system when I copied my home dir from
a different machine that does have that device. That'll teach me for
trying to take shortcuts.

> > Other diagnostics to try include disabling pulseaudio.  We are working to 
> > make 
> > PA usable in KDE for 11.4 but we're only testing it on 11.3 at the moment so 
> > you are in uncharted waters - the PA version in 11.2 may be too old for the 
> > PA 
> > integration in KDE 4.5.
>
> The only thing installed WRT pulseaudio is libpulse0-0.9.21-1.2.1.i586.
>
> > HTH
>
> I hope so as well.
>
> > Will

Thanks for all of the help you provide people on this list Will.

-- 
Ken Schneider
SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998
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