On Tuesday 05 May 2009 03:18:35 Hybris wrote: > > Perhaps start again with some basics like going to a shell > > and using "aplay some.wav" and fiddling with alsamixer to > > see, or hear, if you can get something working. You can > > then paste any suspicious errors into an email to this > > list. > > i discovered an interested thing. > after system boot i switched to the console without logging into kde 4.2. > sound works. > after i log to kde the sound stops working. what i mean is that aplay > executes without errors (i tried from the console, from a terminal, with > root, without root) but no sound is heared. > i also checked the kde mixer, kmix, and all the levels are ok and not muted. > i also checked with alsamixer, all ok. > something strange is happening with kde it seems. Well again, in konsole, aplay some.wav may throw an error and that would be of interest. KDE4 uses phonon to manage either the xine-lib or gstreamer backends so try going to systemsettings and change the phonon backend to whatever is the other one. --markc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now & Save for Velocity, the Web Performance & Operations Conference from O'Reilly Media. Velocity features a full day of expert-led, hands-on workshops and two days of sessions from industry leaders in dedicated Performance & Operations tracks. Use code vel09scf and Save an extra 15% before 5/3. http://p.sf.net/sfu/velocityconf _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user