Re: Phonon occasionally working

[Coque Couto <coque.couto@gmail.com>]

Hi.

I don't know if it's the same for Squeeze, but unstable KDE packages
depend on Pulseaudio.

I've suffered the same problem recently. It was due to programs using
ALSA (chrome and VirtualBox) mixed with KDE programs using Pulseaudio.
I soved it by forcing ALSA to use Pulseaudio: put the following in
/etc/asound.conf:

8<------------------------------------------
pcm.pulse {
    type pulse
}

ctl.pulse {
    type pulse
}

pcm.!default {
    type pulse
}

ctl.!default {
    type pulse
}
------------------------------------->8

Hope this helps.

2010/10/1 Aniruddha <mailingdotlist@gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org>
> wrote:
>> Do you have multiple sound cards in your system?
>> What's the backend for Phonon? When you go into System Settings -
>> Multimedia, you'll see your Phonon
>> settings. IIRC for squeeze (ie KDE 4.4.5) it's on the second tab.
>>
> Thanks for the help. I have one onboard soundcard and I am using the xine
> backend.