Fun and games with sound

[Gabriel Ramirez]

On 03/11/2011 11:24 AM, Anne Wilson wrote:
> A few days ago I installed a Creative SB X-Fi Surround 5.1 box - a USB device
> that allows you to use good speakers from your laptop.  At first I had no
> success at all, but following the steps at
> http://fedorasolved.org/Members/fenris02/pulseaudio-fixes-and-workarounds got
> me started.  This is where the fun and games begins.
>
> When I look at System Settings>  Phonon, the number of devices that are listed
> varies enormously.  I have seen about 10 on one occasion.  Today there are 3,
> one of which is greyed out.  I have no idea what causes the devices to be seen
> on some occasions but not on others.  FWIW, the 5.1 system tops the list, the
> laptop's internal speakers are next, then the greyed out one is another
> configuration of the 5.1 system.

Hi,

maybe you want make this change:

resample-method = trivial

in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf

and reboot your machine , I have trouble restarting pulseaudio in F14 
via killing the pulseaudio seems pulseaudio restart itself so executing 
start-pulseaudio-kde after the kill leaves sometimes some app without sound

another issue what phonon-backend do you use I was using using 
phonon-backend-vlc but because of:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=264292#c4

after following the instructions in that comment and reboot, after oa 
few hours the problem came back following the instructions again and 
changing to phonon-backend-gstreamer and reboot again, and the problem 
was fixed or at least minimized


regards,


Gabriel