Bug#585753: phonon: No sound; only PulseAudio Dummy Output available

[Torsten Crass <torsten.crass@eBiology.de>]

Package: phonon
Version: 4:4.6.0really4.4.2-1
Severity: important

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In KDE System Settings -> Computer Administration -> Multimedia, 
"PulseAudio Sound Server" is the only device showing up. However, 
neither using the GStreamer, nor the Xine backend I do get any sound 
output in many applications (like VLC, Amarok, MPlayer, Xine; notable 
exception so far: MythTV, Audacity, Noatun). Both KMix and pavucontrol 
offer "Dummy output" as only playback device.

Any ideas?

Regards --

  Torsten


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 
'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages phonon depends on:
ii  libphonon4          4:4.6.0really4.4.2-1 the core library of the 
Phonon mul
ii  phonon-backend-gstr 4:4.6.0really4.4.2-1 Phonon GStreamer 0.10.x backend
ii  phonon-backend-xine 4:4.6.0really4.4.2-1 Phonon Xine 1.1.x backend

phonon recommends no packages.

Versions of packages phonon suggests:
ii  phonon-backend-gstr 4:4.6.0really4.4.2-1 Phonon GStreamer 0.10.x backend
pn  phonon-backend-mpla <none>               (no description available)
pn  phonon-backend-vlc  <none>               (no description available)
ii  phonon-backend-xine 4:4.6.0really4.4.2-1 Phonon Xine 1.1.x backend

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