4.3.4: KDE - no sound.

[Rex Dieter]

Gilboa Davara wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 10:17 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
>> Gilboa Davara wrote:
> 
>> Yes, new as of our kde-4.3.4 builds (this same support is/will-be in kde-4.4 
>> upstream).
>> You should also get the full list of real devices if you have the PA device-
>> manager module loaded.  If this isn't available, you'll now only is 
>> PulseAudio.   The logic being if PulseAudio is loaded, none of the other 
>> devices are available or usable anyway, so why bother to display them?
> 
> OK. Switched to the latest PA from updates-testing - I can see the
> d-m-d .so module - but do I enable it? (Google didn't really return
> anything - neither did the blog) 

pactl list | grep device-manager

will output something if it is loaded.  It gets autoloaded by 
/etc/xdg/autostart/pulseaudio-kde.desktop

Can manually do so by running
/usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-kde

>> This is all outlined/explained in Colin Guthrie's recent blogs on the topic.
> Read it. Still no sound :(

That's likely unrelated to pa device-manager

-- Rex