Multimedia settings mysteries

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sun, 2009-02-08 at 21:45 +0200, Eli Wapniarski wrote:
>  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
> 

% rpm -qa \*phonon\*
phonon-devel-4.3.0-5.fc10.x86_64
phonon-backend-gstreamer-4.3.0-5.fc10.x86_64
phonon-4.3.0-5.fc10.x86_64
phonon-backend-xine-4.3.0-5.fc10.x86_64

> 
> 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?

With a test user everything seems to work. In fact the device options
list is different. See my reply to Kevin.

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