On Tuesday 16 December 2008, Kevin Kofler wrote: > On Monday 15 December 2008, Tejas Dinkar wrote: > > On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, Rex Dieter sent out 0.5K bytes to say: > > > > Choices are: > > > > HDA Intel > > > > PulseAudio > > > > Jack > > > > PulseAudio Sound Server > > > > Default > > > > Esound > > > > > > > > Choosing the Defaults button gives me the above. > > > > > > > > Should default be PulseAudio (and if so, which one?) > > > > Mine are similar, but PulseAudio sound server is at the bottom. > > > > The first pulse audio has a PA icon, and the other one has an icon of a > > sound card (which leads me to believe the PA Sound Server is the one > > that represents the "fake" /dev/dsp, and the other one is preferable) > > "PulseAudio Sound Server" is the PA ALSA plugin (ALSA pulse device). > > What versions of kdebase-runtime, phonon and phonon-backend-xine are you > seeing this with? With: > kdebase-runtime-4.1.3-1.fc9.i386 > phonon-4.2.0-5.fc9.i386 > phonon-backend-xine-4.1.3-1.fc9.i386 > I get: > PulseAudio > Ensoniq AudioPCI ENS1371 (ES1371 DAC2/ADC) > Default > PulseAudio Sound Server > which is what is supposed to happen. > > If this is broken in the KDE 4.2 packages, I'll have to look into fixing my > patches. > I've switched to PulseAudio @top (manually). So far it's been reliable, but quite choppy. One buglet, after plugging in my usb audio device, then removing it, @login I'm asked whether to "permanently" remove these devices. That sounds scary. Shouldn't that be rephrased? Sounds like permanently remove might mean it will never recognize the device again if I plug it in.