Multimedia settings mysteries

[Eli Wapniarski]

On Sunday 08 February 2009 19:07:28 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> I installed 4.2 from updates-testing. On configuring Multimedia (under
> Settings) I find:
>
> 1) Only audio is configurable, not video. Don't know if that's
> intentional and for the moment it doesn't matter.
>
> 2) The various audio categories all show the following list of devices:
> 	HDA Intel (STAC92xx Analog)
> 	default (lower-case 'd')
> 	hw:0,0
> 	Default (upper-case 'D')
> 	PulseAudio Sound Server
> 	<nothing> (i.e. an icon with no text)
>
> 3) Despite repeated attempts to push the PA option into first place, as
> soon as I close the dialogue it goes back to where it was.
>
> 4) The Test button sometimes works, but usually just quits the Settings
> dialogue, with no error message. It doesn't seem to depend on which
> device one is trying to test.
>
> 5) Music works via Amarok. Videos played with vlc or kaffeine are
> silent. This used to work with 4.1.4.
>
> 6) (This is actually an old complaint, but what the hell): I can't seem
> to get the Kmix 'loudspeaker' icon to appear. Instead, I get a thing
> that looks like a sheet of paper tilted at an angle and with some
> indecipherable blue stuff on it. This has been happening for years, but
> I just thought I'd mention it :-)
>

What is the ouptut  if you were to open a command prompt and run:

rpm -qa | grep phonon

Does the same thing happen if you create a fresh test user and then try to 
configure kmix? If it does, then it sounds like this is more of alsa issue 
then a kde issue?

Eli

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