Re: No sound in kde4

["Todd A. Jacobs" <nospam@codegnome.org>]

On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 11:48:44AM -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:

> I seem to have lost sound in kde4 after a recent update. Phonon is
> installed, but I can't select the multimedia configuration icon in
> System Settings. Alsa looks like the card is detected as HDA Intel,
> and the volumes are all where they are supposed to be.

I did a little more research, and it turns out that I only had
phonon-backend-null installed. I'm not sure why, but that certainly
wasn't helping.

I installed both phonon-backend-xine and phonon-backend-gstreamer, and
now the multimedia button on System Settings works, but I still get no
sound. :(

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