On Saturday 15 February 2014 09:22:53 Christian PERRIER wrote: [snip] > I happened to come on this thread and finally learned that purging > pulseaudio from one's system seems to be the way to get sound working > back again in some situations. And, guess what? This is exactly the > problem I was having for weeks now;..:-) > > As sound stuff is kind of black magic for me, I had no idea where to > investigate. Random tests, and attempts to look at various log files > weren't leading anywhere and I was left with no sound...:-) > > Until I came up on this thread and just "apt-get purge pulseaudio" and > then, voilà, after a reboot, sound is working again in my KDE > environment. > > But, doh, I feel like a Windows user doing some voodoo black magic, > and fixing things by rebooting. Not really comfortable. > > So, well, I can certaily file a bug report about pulseaudio but I'm > not really sure if I can be really helpful in investigating > it....because it will mostly be the kind of bug report I hate, as a > maintainer : no real information and just "things don't work" stuff. > > So, before doing so: will that be helpful? > > Indeed, I don't really see anything in pulseaudio bugs about this so I > assume it can be helpful but I prefer checking first whether I can > make a more helpful bug report...:-) Christian: while I do the same and keep pulseaudio uninstalled on my systems, I *think* kmix gained functionality like pavucontrol in the latests releases. Maybe it's worth trying it (in case you didn't already). Kinds regards, Lisandro. -- Los chicos tienen un mayor dominio de la tecnología (y las habilidades y lenguaje que eso implica) que los adultos con los que se relacionan. Por lo general saben más que sus propios padres, sus docentes, sus pediatras, psicólogos, que los políticos y funcionarios de sus comunidades. Eso afectó la autoridad que tenía un adulto para habilitar al mundo. Luis Pescetti http://www.luispescetti.com/regale-su-obra/ Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer http://perezmeyer.com.ar/ http://perezmeyer.blogspot.com/
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