Re: No sound with KDE
On Monday 27 November 2006 10:42, Luis Finotti shared this with us all:
>--> Hi,
>-->
>--> On 11/26/06, M-L <rose_snug@bigpond.com> wrote:
>--> >
>--> >
>--> > I hate to ask this, but did you reboot the computer after you did all
>--> > these
>--> > things. I know that sounds very other O/Sish, but it will restart
> certain --> > processes that might then pick up on the changes you've made.
> --> >
>--> > Charlie
>-->
>-->
>-->
>--> OK, I tried it now, but didn't work... In fact, after reboot the sound
> was --> not working (even before KDE). As usual, "alsaconf" fixed it.
>-->
>--> BUT, I've found that another user, logging in KDE did not cause the
>--> problem. I compared the KDE sound settings and the only difference was
> that --> it had "run highest possible priority" checked. I tried to do
> this and did --> not help...
>-->
>--> Then, since it seemed to be a problem of users config files, I moved
> .kde --> and .kderc to .kde.old and .kderc.old, and restarted KDE. I then
> was --> prompted for configuration when restarting KDE. But it did not
> work... (I --> did run "alsaconf" before starting KDE again.)
>-->
>--> Then, I moved .kderc.old and .kde.old to their original "places". Much
> to --> my surprise, most of my old configuration was lost (background, key
> bidings, --> etc.), but now sound works...
>-->
>--> So, I haven't figure out what the problem was, I just have to hope it
> won't --> happen again... and now I have to redo all my desktop
> configuration... --> (Does any one know why backing up .kde and .kderc did
> not work? Are there --> other files?)
>-->
>--> Thanks,
>-->
>--> Luis
>-->
KDE does have some strange issues at the moment. An example is that on one of
my laptops, kcontrol is empty but Lost and Found contains all the links for
kcontrol. So maybe there is more to this than just that? Or maybe your
problem is tied to this? But it's just a guess.
Charlie
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