Fun and games with sound

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Sat Mar 12 18:24:15 UTC 2011


On Saturday 12 March 2011 17:58:05 Gabriel Ramirez wrote:
> 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
> 
I don't think pulseaudio was properly installed, for some reason.  After 
trying a few commands that I found on blogs I got a message saying that no 
pulseaudio daemon was running, and I couldn't find any way to get it.  
Rebooting didn't do it, so I assume that something was missing stopping it 
from initialising at bootup.  I never say any phonon-anything backends offered 
- just xine, gstreamer and vlc.

I've removed PA altogether, and at least have sound from a single speaker now.  
I could really use some help to re-install PA properly this time.  If I can 
get so far I can try your suggestions.

Thanks for answering

Anne
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