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hmohammed43

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Registered: 2010-09-23

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[SOLVED] Pulseaudio and KDE?

Well basically, ALSA is becoming more and more kinda annoying, so i really wanted to get pulseaudio working on my system, but loads of things have changed since last time, like a lot of packages from the AUR to do with pulse (phonon-pulse and kdemultimedia-kmix-pulse) were dropped.

Is there anyone that knows a way to get pulseaudio to work manually? (I'm not scared of compiling, just never had to go real deep into problems)

Thanks in advance!

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Re: [SOLVED] Pulseaudio and KDE?

pulseaudio is fully supported in the repo.   Check out the wiki.

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kaszak696

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Re: [SOLVED] Pulseaudio and KDE?

Pulse works almost out of the box, everything else is on wiki. phonon-pulse package is not needed anymore since phonon will detect pulse daemon by itself.

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hmohammed43

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Re: [SOLVED] Pulseaudio and KDE?

Pulse works almost out of the box, everything else is on wiki. phonon-pulse package is not needed anymore since phonon will detect pulse daemon by itself.

Oh cool, that's the only thing i was worried about. Thanks!

hmohammed43

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Re: [SOLVED] Pulseaudio and KDE?

Just installed all of pulseaudio, and there has to be some hidden problem. Phonon likes pulse (as in, the interfaces show up properly) but no sound is playing through anything. I've looked at the wiki, and it seems that the plasma desktop shows up under /dev/snd (the pid, i tried killing it, and ended up back in KDM)

Anybody know how to fix this?

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kaszak696

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Re: [SOLVED] Pulseaudio and KDE?

Install pavucontrol, execute it and unmute sound output. If you have multiple sound outputs, like HDMI, make sure that your regular sound card is set as default choice, or disable all other outputs.
More info: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pu … er_install
You can also try padevchooser from AUR, might help you.

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hmohammed43

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Re: [SOLVED] Pulseaudio and KDE?

Install pavucontrol, execute it and unmute sound output. If you have multiple sound outputs, like HDMI, make sure that your regular sound card is set as default choice, or disable all other outputs.
More info: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pu … er_install
You can also try padevchooser from AUR, might help you.

Tried that, and it kinda worked, but then i found out how much of a fool i was for forgetting to set one of the phonon settings to make the Internal Analog Stereo to the default.

Thanks for the help though!

I might add some stuff to the wiki

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