Does anybody know what package this is in....?
Colin J Thomson
colin at g6avk.demon.co.uk
Wed Jul 10 21:56:16 UTC 2013
On Wednesday 10 July 2013 20:43:07 Bill Oliver wrote:
> I just had the oddest thing happen to me. I performed a multipackage update
> on F19. I don't remember what packages, it was just one of those
> notifications of "You have 18 updates pending" and I hit "Update."
>
> When I rebooted my box, my alsa system was dead. No little mixer icon in
> the system tray (I am running KDE), no sound, no nothing. Alsamixer
> ncurses program was still there, but changing levels didn't change the
> (nonexistent) sound.
>
> I brought up Apper (the KDE software manager) and it indicated that the
> alsa-firmware, alsa-lib, and alsa-tools were not installed -- though they
> had been before. I tried to install them, but nothing happened. So, then
> I went to the cli and tried yum install alsa-firmware, and it came back
> with the statement that it was already installed!
>
> So, I *reinstalled* them using yum reinstall. At that point things started
> working again.
>
> But... I still can't get the little mixer icon on my system tray. It's not
> an option when I try to configure it, though all the rest are still there.
> I can add the "ALSA volume control" plasmoid, and it works, but I'd like
> the little icon in the system tray.
>
> So, I have two questions:
>
> 1) Anybody know why an update would kill the sound system?
I would have a look at yum's logs to check what was updated and possibly
removed..
> 2) What package might I need to reinstall to get that little widget in the
> system tray?
Yum install kmix should fix it for you.
Colin
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