[pulseaudio-discuss] Fwd: Re: 2 sound devices, one mostly won't play, but works

[Doug]

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Subject: 	Re: 2 sound devices, one mostly won't play, but works
Date: 	Wed, 30 Mar 2011 01:13:25 -0400
From: 	Doug <dmcgarrett at optonline.net>
To: 	Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie>
CC: 	General PulseAudio Discussion <pulseaudio-discuss at mail.0pointer.de>



On 03/29/2011 06:30 AM, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> 'Twas brillig, and Doug at 29/03/11 02:52 did gyre and gimble:
>> Hello, group--I'm a newbie here.  Running PCLOS with KDE 4.6.1.  I
>> recently decided that I wanted to be able to try out SKYPE, and I
>> don't want to move cables around, so, since I had an old sound card, I
>> plugged it in. Up til then, sound was on MOBO and worked
>> fine.  Now sound only comes out p/i card, except once for a minute,
>> until I messed with the GUI PAVU, and now it's back to the
>> p/i card again, only.  I have tried sound output from an internet radio
>> station and from an mp3 file on a CD.  It was the CD that briefly
>> produced output from the MOBO sound device.  Here is what the system
>> says about the cards:
> You really shouldn't really have to mess with .asoundrc's these days.
> The PerfectSetup page on the wiki shouldn't really apply at a user level
> in this day and age, it should be up to the distro to provide all this
> for you. Certainly all the major distros have been doing this for
> several years now.
>
> In KDE things are different, but see here for the info:
>
> http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/KDE
>
> You can also find all the relevant KDE info on my blog.
>
> http://colin.guthr.ie/tag/kde/
>
> Again, all the major distros have been supporting proper PA+KDE
> integration for a while now (I think SuSE was the last to include it,
> but it's now default in their latest release I believe).
>
> So the routing of which card to use on KDE works via the KDE System
> Settings GUI which is fully integrated with PA.
>
> Col
>
I got your suggested note, "KDE PulseAudio Integration" and tried to 
follow the stuff under Phonon, but I can't find a KDE Control Module.
There does not seem to be anything like that in the repo, either.  
However, I did find PCLInuxOs Control Center> configure sound
(I think that's the name) and it had check boxes for "Enable Pulse 
Audio" not checked, so I checked it, and "Enable user switching for
audio applications," which I also checked.  However, after clicking 
"apply" and xing back out of that, and then checking back, the
check box for enabling user switching was unchecked.  I tried a couple 
of times, but it won't hold. This section also said the card is
using ALSA "snd-trident" driver, which is the default.  I found that I 
did not have KDE multimedia, so I installed that, which does not
occupy a place in bash, but apparently installs about 4 other files.  I 
could not see any result from doing any of the above.
I never could get any of the screens under the Phonon heading, of 
course, since I don't have the Multimedia tab, or "Audio and
Video settings."

Ran pavctl and got basically the same results as previously, except that 
now the volume control on the panel works, and moves the
sliders on the top port of the pa control.  the top port is using the 
mobo sound device, as the sound now comes out of the speakers
again, which are connected to the mobo.  Nothing from the other port, no 
matter what I enable in it.  This other port, of course, is
what was working when I first posted here, and the speakers then were 
not working.

My previous post answered the questions you asked about the pa version, 
and the results of calling alsamixer c0 or c1.

-- 
Blessed are the peacemakers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A. M. Greeley

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