On 2013-10-05 21:34 (GMT+0200) šumski composed:
Felix Miata wrote:
I have at least two 13.1B1/KDE4 systems with Intel audio and no sounds from KDE, in spite of phonon-backend-vlc-0.6.80 being installed. YaST2 does play a test sound. Kmix shows two sliders described as for "Built-In Audio Analog Stereo". Shortly after login, a window pops up saying "Phonon's VLC backend failed to start". Can sound from KDE in 13.1B1 currently be made to work with without gstreamer*? Some weeks ago I remember reading here or on Factory list that gstreamer backend was broken. I don't see much point in installing gstreamer* on a system that's going to have VLC regardless.
Does http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/SUSE/xsession-errors-gx270-os131b1.txt help?
OK, had a better look at this one now: [0x85dc9d8] main libvlc error: No plugins found! Check your VLC installation. PHONON-VLC [07;31m[FATAL__][00;39m libVLC: could not initialize
As i suggested, does installing vlc-nox helps?
# zypper -v in vlc-noX (41 packages installed) No help, even after reboot. Additionally, there is no more any popup shortly after session startup telling me "Phonon's VLC backend failed to start", and no string containing phono in .xsession-errors, even after also installing vlc. Booting same host gx270 system to 12.3, which has only the 4 standard repos configured, no sound from KDE, and no additional packages required to install previously uninstalled kmix. zypper se -s vlc returns nothing, which begs the question: what exactly is required to have any sound at all in KDE without enabling any optional repos? Apparently something's different between 12.3 and 13.1, because 12.3's only phonon-backend to be found via zypper or yast2 search is (the ancient and obsolete) gstreamer-0_10, and installing it does make KDE4 12.3's sound work. Also, why doesn't installation of kmix depend on whatever sound support package(s) KDE depends on being installed? IOW, if some phonon-backend is a hard requirement, why is kmix allowed to install if neither phonon-backend has been or is being installed? Why is it whatever YaST2 depends on to play a test sound successfully isn't sufficient for sound in KDE to work? Put another way, shouldn't YaST2 be using the same method as the DE it's running in? (What's libphonon4 for?) -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org