KDE ate my sound card! :(
by Valent Turkovic
Hi, my sister has MS-1221 (PR200) laptop that I need to fix for her so
that Skype works.
The issues were
- webcam didn't work
- audio didn't work on skype
I installed 2.6.31 kernel - that fixed webcam issue now cheese and skype,
cheese and other apps worked ok with webcam.
After installing new Skype 2.1 beta sound didn't work until I disabled in
skype "Allow Skype to automatically adjust my mixer levels", after that
it worked without problems.
Then I tried using skype (and other audio recording applications on
Fedora) but couldn't record audio from internal microphone, but when I
connected external microphone audio recording (and skype) worked.
So I had everything working ok, except that I couldn't record from
internal microphone, which wasn't such a big issue, but I still wanted to
try and fix it.
I googled around and tried a few parameters for snd-hda-intel module, by
issuing "rmmod snd-hda-intel -f" and then loading module with different
options. Whatever I tried internal microphone still didn't work, but that
was acceptable.
I was doing all configuration while in Gnome, and now I had working audio
and video for skype, and also working audio recording (via external mic)
and working webcam for cheese, skype and other applications that use
webcam.
Then I switched into KDE, without restart, just log off and login to KDE.
KDE immediately popped up a window saying:
KDE detected that one or more internal sound devices were removed:
* Output: HDA Intel, INTEL HDMI (HDMI Audio Output)
And now sound was gone!
I tried reloading snd-hda-intel module, logging back to gnome,
restarting... nothing!
There is absolutely no sound output!
Now can I troubleshoot and fix this?
Why and how can KDE interfere with PulseAudio so much that it also messes
up sound in Gnome?!?
This has really pissed me off! And I returned laptop to my sister in
worst state than she game it to me :(
Any suggestions are more than welcome, so please give any suggestions you
have.
Also if you need more info just tell me what do you need.
Cheers!
Here is some extra info:
Smolt profile for laptop:
http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_2eb97796-1ebc-46e9-933a-6d53dfb00749
lspci:
http://www.fpaste.org/M7Og
/etc/modprobe.d/dist.conf (modprobe.conf is depracated)
http://www.fpaste.org/EG6U/
by default the options file isn't commented, but I tried both ways,
and it is the same:
alias char-major-116-* snd
alias sound-service-*-0 snd-mixer-oss
#options snd-hda-intel model=laptop-eapd probe_mask=1
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