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STiAT

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From: Vienna, Austria

Registered: 2004-12-23

Posts: 606

[KF5/Plasma5] Sound issues

I'm setting up a Plasma5 box for bugtracking, and realized that Arch is actually the only distro I manage to have sound issues with - respectively it's not getting any sound devices at all. On all other distros I try (KUbuntu, Manjaro) it works, so I guess I do miss some dependency or similar.

$ systemsettings5 
kf5.kservice.sycoca: Trying to open ksycoca from "/home/schurl/.cache/ksycoca5"
"/home/schurl/.config/kde.org/libphonon.conf"
libpaths ("/usr/lib/qt5/plugins", "/usr/lib/qt/plugins", "/usr/bin")
void BackendSelection::load() "/usr/lib/qt/plugins/phonon4qt5_backend" does not exist
void BackendSelection::load() "/usr/bin/phonon4qt5_backend" does not exist
qooooooooo
Disabling PulseAudio integration. Context connection failed:  Connection refused
"/home/schurl/.config/kde.org/libphonon.conf"
libpaths ("/usr/lib/qt5/plugins", "/usr/lib/qt/plugins", "/usr/bin")
void BackendSelection::load() "/usr/lib/qt/plugins/phonon4qt5_backend" does not exist
void BackendSelection::load() "/usr/bin/phonon4qt5_backend" does not exist
qooooooooo
qooooooooo

Now, I have 3 sound devices, a USB headset, two speakers and HDMI, and I think they should all show up.

extra/alsa-lib 1.0.28-1 [installed]
    An alternative implementation of Linux sound support
extra/alsa-utils 1.0.28-1 [installed]
    An alternative implementation of Linux sound support
extra/alsa-tools 1.0.28-1 [installed]
    Advanced tools for certain sound cards
extra/alsa-firmware 1.0.28-1 [installed]
    ALSA firmware package
extra/alsa-plugins 1.0.28-2 [installed]
    Extra alsa plugins

$ pacman -Ss phonon
extra/phonon-qt4 4.8.3-1 [installed]
    The multimedia framework for KDE4
extra/phonon-qt4-gstreamer 4.8.2-1 [installed]
    Phonon GStreamer backend for Qt4
extra/phonon-qt4-vlc 0.8.2-1
    Phonon VLC backend for Qt4
extra/phonon-qt5 4.8.3-1 [installed]
    The multimedia framework for KF5
extra/phonon-qt5-gstreamer 4.8.2-1 [installed]
    Phonon GStreamer backend for Qt5
extra/phonon-qt5-vlc 0.8.2-1
    Phonon VLC backend for Qt5

Interesting is - kmix (kde4) can find all things I do have. I just want my headset as primary output source .
Installing pulse didn't help, still no devices in system settings (except for the "Pulseaudio" tab, which isn't of any help).

Anyone knows what I'm doing wrong? The problem could be that the phonon4qt5 is actually installed to /usr/lib/qt5/plugins/phonon4qt5_backend, and it's trying to load from /us/lib/qt .. where no phonon4qt5_backend exists... Could that be a packaging bug in phonon4qt5? At least, it's the only module installed there.

Last edited by STiAT (2015-02-11 22:06:51)

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Soukyuu

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Registered: 2014-04-08

Posts: 854

Re: [KF5/Plasma5] Sound issues

Do you mean you only have "pulse" "alsa" and "jack" in your sound config? The only way to configure pulseaudio I've found is pavucontrol (gtk tool).
I had to configure my USB headset as well, I've selected my internal sound card as fallback and it seems to be treating my USB headset as primary now...

That said, pulseaudio has been giving me trouble to no end, working or not working depending on its mood, apparently.
The funny/sad thing is, no one seems to know how to configure that... thing correctly in most cases.
I'd prefer to not install it at all, if there wasn't for some programs I have to use requiring them (skype).

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STiAT

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From: Vienna, Austria

Registered: 2004-12-23

Posts: 606

Re: [KF5/Plasma5] Sound issues

Actually, I only installed pulse to test if sound works with pulse, but either with or without pulse the "Multimedia" section in systemsettings5 does not find my audio devices (apparently).

Switching between gst and vlc didn't bring any result either.

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