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#1 2009-09-07 16:08:02

jerik
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Registered: 2009-03-02
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Todays update made sound go away

Hi, I updated the big-one we had this morning, and some apps such as Amarok lost the audioutput. Before, i had an entrance in System settings->Multimedia called "default". It was the only one that worked in my list, out of four possible I think. Now, there is only one entrance called "NVIDIA CK8S with ALC850 (NVIDIA CK8S)" which of course has become standard, but is not able to "speak"...

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#2 2009-09-09 12:41:20

jerik
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Re: Todays update made sound go away

anyone?

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#3 2009-09-09 15:03:42

Acecero
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Re: Todays update made sound go away

Can we see what sound modules you having running?

$ lsmod|grep '^snd' | column -t

Edit: You may want to refer to this thread as well. http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=79731

Last edited by Acecero (2009-09-09 15:06:45)

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#4 2009-09-09 15:13:01

jerik
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Re: Todays update made sound go away

$ lsmod|grep '^snd' | column -t
snd_wavefront       37620   0
snd_seq_dummy       2696    0
snd_seq_oss         31168   0
snd_cs4236          30996   0
snd_seq_midi_event  7012    1   snd_seq_oss
snd_seq             53744   5   snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_wss_lib         25860   2   snd_wavefront,snd_cs4236
snd_opl3_lib        10340   2   snd_wavefront,snd_cs4236
snd_pcm_oss         40352   0
snd_hwdep           7656    2   snd_wavefront,snd_opl3_lib
snd_mixer_oss       17540   1   snd_pcm_oss
snd_mpu401          7208    0
snd_mpu401_uart     7524    3   snd_wavefront,snd_cs4236,snd_mpu401
snd_intel8x0        30592   3
snd_ac97_codec      106088  1   snd_intel8x0
snd_rawmidi         21856   2   snd_wavefront,snd_mpu401_uart
snd_pcm             73672   6   snd_cs4236,snd_wss_lib,snd_pcm_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec
snd_seq_device      6768    5   snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_opl3_lib,snd_rawmidi
snd_timer           21100   5   snd_seq,snd_wss_lib,snd_opl3_lib,snd_pcm
snd                 58436   21  snd_wavefront,snd_seq_oss,snd_cs4236,snd_seq,snd_wss_lib,snd_opl3_lib,snd_pcm_oss,snd_hwdep,snd_mixer_oss,snd_mpu401,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_rawmidi,snd_pcm,snd_seq_device,snd_timer
snd_page_alloc      8876    3   snd_wss_lib,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm

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#5 2009-09-09 18:25:18

lestoil
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Re: Todays update made sound go away

If you're using kde go to system settings>multimedia>Device Preference and find Output device preference for Multimedia usually the top one will work.  You can test  each one in list on right.  Check what there is is Backend tab.too.  Mine has xine phonon backend for video which works.  Then again I use alsa and a different sound card.  The recent upgrade still has sound and video working fine for me.
You may want to check /var/log/pacman.log  see if there are config files you need to look at.The wiki notes on audio/sound setup can help too.  Good luck..

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#6 2009-09-10 14:35:13

jerik
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Re: Todays update made sound go away

As I described in the first post I have only one entrance in that list, and before the update I had four. And the one that worked before the update is now gone. It uses gstreamer as backend now, I think it used to be xine when it was kde4.2?! It seemes maby it can't detect my soundcard like it did before?

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#7 2009-09-14 15:20:33

pseb
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Re: Todays update made sound go away

hi,
have a similar problem. i am using kde 4.3.1 with phonon-xine backend. no xine-based apps work (like kde's sytem notifications, amarok 1.4). alsa works, play and aplay work, vlc works... so xine seems to be the problem. does anyone have an idea?
greets,
pseb

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#8 2009-09-14 15:44:10

pseb
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Re: Todays update made sound go away

update: when i start systemsettings via kdesu the "test" button works. maybe a problem with permissions?

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#9 2009-09-15 00:40:38

kommissar
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Re: Todays update made sound go away

I have this same problem.  Sound in KDE used to work, but stopped after alsa-libs and a few other things were upgraded yesterday.  I'm using alsa and phonon-xine.

- aplay, and vlc both work still
- kde sounds and amarok don't not work
- the "default" device disappeared from the KDE multimedia control panel (systemsettings)
- the "test" sound button doesn't play sound for any device in systemsettings
- running systemsettings as root *does* produce sound when clicking the test button in the multimedia control panel

Hope this helps.  Should I file a bug report?

Last edited by kommissar (2009-09-15 00:42:11)

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#10 2009-09-15 07:41:46

jerik
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Re: Todays update made sound go away

For me it was solved switching from gstreamer to xine...

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#11 2009-09-15 10:14:00

pseb
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Re: Todays update made sound go away

xine works again. deleted the .xine-directory in my home-folder, and deleted some config-files in kde4 (everything related to phonon). and removed the entry "export QT_NO_GLIB=1" from my .bashrc though i don't know if it has anything to do with the issue.

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#12 2009-09-15 18:36:12

kommissar
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Re: Todays update made sound go away

Here are the files I deleted (relative to my home directory) to get things to work again:

.config/kde.org/libphonon.conf
.config/kde.org/Phonon-Xine.xine.conf
.kde4/share/config/phonondevicesrc
.xine/*

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#13 2009-09-20 14:09:22

gallow
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Re: Todays update made sound go away

kommissar wrote:

Here are the files I deleted (relative to my home directory) to get things to work again:

.config/kde.org/libphonon.conf
.config/kde.org/Phonon-Xine.xine.conf

Installation of xine backend along with deleting the above files worked for me.

Thanks guys!

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