[pulseaudio-discuss] Unable to make pulseaudio work on a Slackware based distribution (Kongoni)

[Robert Gabriel]

OK here it is:

Screenshot of phonon: http://mirror.visualserver.org/phonon.png
Output of phonon: http://pastebin.com/Cikqx7QM

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 20:34, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
> 'Twas brillig, and Robert Gabriel at 09/12/10 18:09 did gyre and gimble:
>> I just wrote before that phonon was just build with pulseaudio support
>> and of course the version is 4.4.3.
>
> OK, that's good to know. I appreciated you built you're own but you
> never know which version people use - e.g. there may have been a dep
> that required you use an older version.
>
>> Rebuild kmix... isn't in my list, as it most probably need to rebuild
>> KDE as this is how Slackware doesn't things.
>> So for me should be a different fix.
>> Now in Phonon config there is "Default Audio Device" which is set in
>> /etc/asound.conf, but
>> this is not the default and would like to make default globaly, just
>> not sure how.
>>
>> pcm.!default {
>>     type pulse
>>     hint.description "Default Audio Device"
>> }
>
> Hmm, this is very odd. The ALSA hint should *not* appear in Phonon
> config if PulseAudio support is fully working. Can you attach/link a
> screen shot just to be sure?
>
> The device list should mirror your PulseAudio setup (e.g. the same list
> of devices as is shown in the Output Devices tab of pavucontrol.
>
> The page I linked earlier has screen shots of kcm_phonon config screens.
> It appears you are seeing ALSA devices in that list due to the fact that
> the ALSA hint is being disaplayed and this should not happen with a
> fully integrated setup.
>
> Can you run:
>
> PHONON_PULSEAUDIO_DEBUG=4 kcmshell4 kcm_phonon
>
> And post/link the debug output please?
>
> Col
>
>
>
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