I just updated two systems. They use different hardware, but I run primarily KDE in both. One system updated and sound worked fine. The second system lost sound in KDE. I can delete ~/.pulse and .pulse-cookie, log out, log in and have sound for that session. I can play music, get system sounds, etc. Once I log out, and back in, no sound. I can tap on the microphone and hear that in the speakers. I can run aplay /usr/share/sounds/purple/login.wav and hear that. If I log out of KDE and into GNOME, I can run any application with sound and they work fine. All sound worked fine prior to today's updates, which included the latest pulse updates.
lspci:
00:05.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP61 High Definition Audio (rev a2)
I checked alsamixer and nothing is muted. Checked Pulse Audio Volume Control and everything looks OK there. Again, I want to emphasize that (other than no login sounds in GNOME, which I believe is a known issue) all the applications play sounds fine in GNOME. I have rebooted several times. No change to KDE. Switch back and forth with KDE, and GNOME, everything is fine in GNOME, but no login/logout sounds, or system sounds, or application sounds in KDE.
Since sound is fine in GNOME, I would guess that it is some sort of configuration problem in KDE. Although I try to set up both my systems, to be indentical, within the constraints of the hardware, and sound is fine in KDE on the other system.
If anyone has an idea what I can try next, please let me know. Meanwhile, I can at least run in GNOME.
Thank you for any help.
Lloyd
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I just updated two systems. They use different hardware, but I run primarily KDE in both. One system updated and sound worked fine. The second system lost sound in KDE. I can delete ~/.pulse and .pulse-cookie, log out, log in and have sound for that session. I can play music, get system sounds, etc. Once I log out, and back in, no sound. I can tap on the microphone and hear that in the speakers. I can run aplay /usr/share/sounds/purple/login.wav and hear that. If I log out of KDE and into GNOME, I can run any application with sound and they work fine. All sound worked fine prior to today's updates, which included the latest pulse updates.
for giggles, you can try swapping phonon backends to see if that helps you any.
systemsettings -> multimedia (backends tab).
On f12, both xine and gstreamer backends should be freely switchable and functional these days.
-- Rex
I just updated two systems. They use different
hardware, but I run
primarily KDE in both. One system updated and
sound worked fine. The
second system lost sound in KDE. I can delete
~/.pulse and .pulse-cookie,
log out, log in and have sound for that session.
I can play music, get
system sounds, etc. Once I log out, and back in,
no sound. I can tap on
the microphone and hear that in the speakers. I
can run
aplay /usr/share/sounds/purple/login.wav and hear
that. If I log out of
KDE and into GNOME, I can run any application with
sound and they work
fine. All sound worked fine prior to today's
updates, which included the
latest pulse updates.
Hi; this happened to me. I only run KDE, so did not test gnome.
F -> apps -> multimedia -> pulse volume control click the config tab.
In my case PA found my Radeon Video card and chose HDMI I changed it back and all was ok.
I have a Radeon HD 3450 PCI Express, with NO HDMI.
Mick M
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