On 3/22/2010 3:58 AM, Tejas Guruswamy wrote:
On 22/03/10 04:09, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
Ok here is the output from setup-pulseaudio -- enable
nova:~ # setup-pulseaudio --enable Enabling PulseAudio for ALSA... ALSA_CONFIG_PATH=/etc/alsa-pulse.conf PulseAudio config for ALSA already in use Enabling PulseAudio for libao... default_driver=pulse Default driver is pulse already in /etc/libao.conf Enabling PulseAudio for mplayer... Enabling PulseAudio for SDL... SDL_AUDIODRIVER=pulse SDL already setup to use PulseAudio Enabling PulseAudio autospawn... Starting SuSEconfig, the SuSE Configuration Tool... ... Finished.
All looks fine. According to this, pulseaudio should be correctly set up. You might need to restart, but the pulseaudio controls should be working.
As for the Phonon configuration, Tejas I am going to be careful on communication here in case I am misunderstanding you. By "System Settings" I am assuming that you are referring to the tool labeled "Configure Desktop" which brings up a GUI that seems to target KDE stuff. That GUI has an odd behavior in that it initially comes up with a title of "Personal Settings" but if I click on any of the tools or toolbar menus, the title changes to "System Settings" Within that tool there is a subsection titled "Computer Administration" and within that section there is an icon for "Multimedia" I believe you are referring me to this tool?
If I click on this "Multimedia" icon the whole "Configure Desktop / Systems Settings" GUI immediately disappears as if it is being closed. So I suspect it crashed.... Nothing further opens up either, so I cannot see anything called a "Backend tab"
Yes, that's where the Multimedia configuration tab is supposed to be. It keeps changing names because you've got mixed package versions, see below.
As for your question about what repository Amarok comes from, geez I wish YaST would let me do a copy/paste!
Try the command line program zypper (man zypper will give you all the options, e.g. in this case "zypper se -si amarok" would have worked)
Oh well - Under the Versions tab YaST reports -
with a check mark - 2.2.90-57.7-x86_64 from vendor obs://build.opensuse.org/KDE (installed)
with a toggle button - 2.3.0-61.1-x86_64 from KDE:KDE4:Factory:Desktop with priority 99 and vendor obs://build.opensuse.org/KDE
I suspect this is the cause of the problems. You have the KDE:KDE4:Factory:Desktop (which contains KDE4.4.1) repository installed but haven't upgraded all your packages uniformly (you've mixed versions and so are encountering library incompatibilities). Could you send your repository list? (output of "zypper lr" is easiest)
Anyway once we get the repository list sorted out you need to decide which KDE version you want and uniformly upgrade all your packages to that version (see http://en.opensuse.org/KDE).
Specifically decide if you want KDE4.3.x or KDE4.4.x. If you are using the PIM applications a lot (Kontact, KMail, etc.) I recommend you stay with KDE4.3 otherwise it should be fine to upgrade to KDE4.4.
Regards, Tejas
Thanks again Tejas - Yes I upgraded to KDE4.4.x as its ability to manage my desktop, plasmoids, and activities was much better than in KDE4.3.5 And I would prefer to stay with KDE4.4. I don't use the PIM applications a lot. Below is the output from the zypper command (I was not familiar with it, so thanks for the tips on using) I suspect you are probably right about my using inconsistent repositories, I don't always understand which repository I should get what from and try to follow instructions that I encounter as I install various apps.. Also will admit that some of these repositories, such as the BuildService ones were added as a guess, thinking that I would want updates to packages that those repositories seem to imply were where such components would be found. Others got added automagically for one reason or another... (Would be nice if YaST could better manage all this and suggest what apps could/should be loaded from what repository so as to remain consistent!) Running the command - zypper se -si amarok confirmed that my version of Amarok came from the KDE:KDE4 Factory:Desktop repository. nova:~ # zypper lr # | Alias | Name | Enabled | Refresh ---+-------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------+---------+-------- 1 | 11.2 | 11.2 | Yes | Yes 2 | KDE:Community | KDE:Community | Yes | Yes 3 | KDE:KDE4:Factory:Desktop | KDE:KDE4:Factory:Desktop | Yes | Yes 4 | Packman Repository | Packman Repository | Yes | Yes 5 | download.nvidia.com-opensuse | NVIDIA Repository | Yes | Yes 6 | download.opensuse.org-Backports | openSUSE BuildService - KDE:Backports | Yes | Yes 7 | download.opensuse.org-Community | openSUSE BuildService - KDE:KDE4:Community | Yes | Yes 8 | download.opensuse.org-STABLE | openSUSE BuildService - OpenOffice.org | Yes | Yes 9 | download.opensuse.org-Wine | openSUSE BuildService - Wine CVS Builds | Yes | Yes 10 | download.opensuse.org-games | openSUSE BuildService - Games | Yes | Yes 11 | download.opensuse.org-mozilla | openSUSE BuildService - Mozilla | Yes | Yes 12 | ftp.skynet.be-suse | Packman Repository | Yes | Yes 13 | home:theMarix:KDE:Community | home:theMarix:KDE:Community | Yes | Yes 14 | http-download.opensuse.org-922768fa | Updates for openSUSE 11.2-0 | Yes | Yes 15 | openSUSE 11.2-0 | openSUSE 11.2-0 | Yes | No 16 | repo-debug | openSUSE-11.2-Debug | No | Yes 17 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-11.2-Non-Oss | Yes | Yes 18 | repo-oss | openSUSE-11.2-Oss | Yes | Yes 19 | repo-source | openSUSE-11.2-Source | No | Yes [1]+ Done Marc..