https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=478507 User va3rcc@rogers.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=478507#c8 --- Comment #8 from Ron Crouch <va3rcc@rogers.com> 2009-02-24 14:53:46 MST --- I have managed to restore two channel stereo for the KDE3 sessions. I accomplished this by removing all of Pulseaudio except for three packages that were required to solve dependencies (two libpulse packages and freeverb). By the way this also solved the occasional error message in a KDE4 session in which phonon would report that device hda-intel was not found falling back to ESD, but ESD was not installed so it could not be running, yet all sounds were generated correctly. 5.1 (actually 7.1 for my ICH9 ALC 883) in a KDE4 session, analog plus digital is still working correctly. I have tried disabling the sound server, disabling all notifications, and shut down kmix. This made no difference. In all circumstances under a KDE3 session "fuser /dev/snd/pcmC0D0*" reports pid's for nearly all processes started by "user" (not root) from kdesktop onwards (log out, log in, reboot, nothing made a difference). Something else I should note here as well is that even shutting down kmix and the KDE3 sound server did not defeat sound at all (still had audio enabled some how). This is not the behavior in KDE4 as "fuser /dev/snd/pcmC0D0*" reports nothing. So I guess at this the question is this: if I have all system notifications turned off, no graphical mixer such as kmix running, and the sound server turned off, then how do I defeat the assignment for the "default" soft-mixing 2 channel PCM when KDE3 initializes. I would think that that might solve the problem if it's possible to do so. It would seem that some of the changes that have been made to the ALSA packages as of late -- have made a difference. Thumbe up! -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.