On Sun, 2009-02-08 at 21:45 +0200, Eli Wapniarski wrote: > On Sunday 08 February 2009 19:07:28 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > I installed 4.2 from updates-testing. On configuring Multimedia > (under > > Settings) I find: > > > > 1) Only audio is configurable, not video. Don't know if that's > > intentional and for the moment it doesn't matter. > > > > 2) The various audio categories all show the following list of > devices: > > HDA Intel (STAC92xx Analog) > > default (lower-case 'd') > > hw:0,0 > > Default (upper-case 'D') > > PulseAudio Sound Server > > <nothing> (i.e. an icon with no text) > > > > 3) Despite repeated attempts to push the PA option into first place, > as > > soon as I close the dialogue it goes back to where it was. > > > > 4) The Test button sometimes works, but usually just quits the > Settings > > dialogue, with no error message. It doesn't seem to depend on which > > device one is trying to test. > > > > 5) Music works via Amarok. Videos played with vlc or kaffeine are > > silent. This used to work with 4.1.4. > > > > 6) (This is actually an old complaint, but what the hell): I can't > seem > > to get the Kmix 'loudspeaker' icon to appear. Instead, I get a thing > > that looks like a sheet of paper tilted at an angle and with some > > indecipherable blue stuff on it. This has been happening for years, > but > > I just thought I'd mention it :-) > > > > > > What is the ouptut if you were to open a command prompt and run: > > > > rpm -qa | grep phonon > % rpm -qa \*phonon\* phonon-devel-4.3.0-5.fc10.x86_64 phonon-backend-gstreamer-4.3.0-5.fc10.x86_64 phonon-4.3.0-5.fc10.x86_64 phonon-backend-xine-4.3.0-5.fc10.x86_64 > > Does the same thing happen if you create a fresh test user and then > try to configure kmix? If it does, then it sounds like this is more of > alsa issue then a kde issue? With a test user everything seems to work. In fact the device options list is different. See my reply to Kevin. poc