(In reply to Wolfgang Bauer from comment #2) My version of KVirc is installed from obs://build.opensuse.org/KDE:Unstable That's because the official version is extremely old (4.2.0) whereas that provides a much newer version (4.9.2): https://software.opensuse.org/package/kvirc I get the following error when running KVirc without this library: kvirc: error while loading shared libraries: libesd.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I do not know how to check the phonon backend.