Re: Transition to KDE 5 in testing : some glitches...

[Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org>]

On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 12:28:07PM CEST, Rubin Abdi <rubin@starset.net> said:
> I just spent the last 5 hours in dependency hell while trying to figure out how
> to upgrade to Plasma 5 during a dist-upgrade on Sid. Horrible.
> 
> My system is somewhat coherent again after a bunch of searching for things.
> 
> As far as sound goes, I needed to install kmix to get the volume control
> buttons on my laptop functional again, and pavucontrol to have a nice GUI to
> switch audio sinks. I hope that solves your 2nd issue.

Thanks, I do not use pulseaudio, thus no pavucontrol, and I do not see
any kmix other than the 4.14 that I already have.

I'll try to stop the machine and boot it, instead of rebooting in case
it does something to the audio chip.