Re: Phonon and pulseaudio
On 24/02/12 07:50, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 09:26:25 +0000, Brad Rogers wrote:
>> On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:03:38 +0100 Diederik de Haas wrote:
>>
>> Hello Diederik,
>>
>>> Since the upgrade of phonon, I'm getting error msg which I didn't have
>>> before, like "The audio playback device HDA ATI SB (VT1818S Analog)
>>> does not work. Falling back to Default."
>>
>> I get that too. Except the report I get reads it's falling back to the
>> device that's just failed. Most strange.
Perhaps it's related to this:-
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/02/msg01791.html
(sorry, it doesn't affect me, so I can't offer any suggestions)
>
> This is most likely caused by your sound devices changing their alsa
> card numbers, for example due to a kernel or alsa upgrade, or due to a
> modified hardware configuration (including changes in the presence of
> USB or bluetooth sound devices during boot). In other words, the bizarre
> message "device X does not work, falling back to device X" translates to
> "device X, which I used to know as alsa card 0, does not work anymore,
> therefore I am falling back to device X, which is now card 1 (and I am
> too stupid to recognize that the two are in fact the exact same thing)".
>
> The quickest way to get rid of these messages is to reorder the
> preference list of sound devices in "System Settings > Multimedia >
> Phonon > Device Preference" such that a working instance of the device
> is on top in "Audio Output" and all of its categories (Notifications,
> Music, etc).
>
> I only know one way to eliminate the annoying grayed-out ghosts of past
> cards in the device preference list: Log out of KDE and remove
> ~/.kde/share/config/phonondevicesrc, which will then be rebuilt properly
> when phonon starts again. You may have to correct the preference order
> of the devices again after that happens, though. You can also edit the
> file with a text editor to make the necessary corrections if you prefer
> a less invasive approach; the syntax of the entries is pretty
> self-explanatory.
>
Kind regards
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