[Solved] KDE 4 can't detect my sound card

Greenstuff · 2009-07-23 17:55:46

I installed KDE 4 and everything's great. The one thing that doesn't work is that I get a notification telling me my sound card, Sigmatel, doesn't work. Now i'm fairly sure it's a KDE issue as I can play music in Gnome and in the shell but not in Gnome. I have ALSA configured and even Pulse but when trying to find the card KDE tells me it xan't find it. Sound tests fail and I loaded the modules already. Multimedia settings aren't very helpful, they just left me choose my sound card as a device but they can't make it work. To the best of my knowlate I have the alsa driver compiled into my kernel.

Additional info: Pacman upgraded my kernel today. Could it be connected?

More info: verius log files show this error:
ALSA lib pcm.c:2171:(snd_pcm_open_conf) Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so
Playback open error: -2,No such file

however the file exists, I checked

Last edited by Greenstuff (2009-07-25 13:22:57)

flamelab · 2009-07-23 18:05:39

Have you checked about your sound card in System Settings >> Multimedia

?

Greenstuff · 2009-07-23 18:24:35

As I said I did. My sound card is listed in there (Or at least the squeakers) but sound tests fail

Llama · 2009-07-23 19:56:06

Actually your sound is little or no business of KDE's. KDE just acknowledges its presence, like, no more . The sound (audio, video) is there, I presume? If so, just ignore KDE warnings. If there's really no sound, ALSA is you keyword.

Greenstuff · 2009-07-23 20:37:52

Problem is that there really isn't. When trying to play something KDE warns me again. However in gnome sound works fine

Llama · 2009-07-24 02:45:59

A good example of the evils of GUI configuring. No hard data for you to post, nothing solid to work on for others...

Well, I've got four entities in my System Settings->Multimedia->Device Preference->Audio Output:

HDA NVidia (AD198x Analog)
HDA NVidia (AD198x Digital)
Jack Audio Connection Kit
Esound (ESD)

I remember having to put that 'Analog' thing manually on top of the stack everywhere (Notifications, Music, etc.). It all tests successfully, except for the 'Digital'.

That's about it...

Last edited by Llama (2009-07-24 02:59:54)

Greenstuff · 2009-07-24 08:33:36

I may try that. I also tried installing pulse then found out KDE doesn't work with it very well. Am I better off with Phonon and Alsa? Can phonon mix sounds and work with Skype and it's likes?

Greenstuff · 2009-07-25 13:22:38

Ok apperantly problem's in ALSA. I reconfigured it from the CLI then went to KDE and sound works great.

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[Solved] KDE 4 can't detect my sound card

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