On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 07:45 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote: > Gilboa Davara wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > I just installed F12 on my private workstation, and upgrade the > > "built-in" KDE to 4.3.4 from kde-redhat unstable (x86_64, some i686 libs > > taken from the i386 repo). > > Login, logout, and no more sound. > > By looking at the control center, I can see that KDE only sees the > > Pulseaudio sound server (instead of Pulse + on-board HDA Intel (alsa) + > > SB Audigy 2 (alsa) and USB microphone (USB camera). > > that's expected, see also, > http://colin.guthr.ie/2009/10/so-how-does-the-kde-pulseaudio-support-work- > anyway/ Is it something -very- new? I mean, I never saw it before. (Both KDE 4.3.3 under F11 and KDE 4.3.3 under F12 gave me the full list of devices, including non-PA ones...) > > > Far worse, when I try to test the pulse audio server (from the control > > center), I get a "Pulse audio server not responding - falling back to > > (empty).". > > Boo, obviously PA has gotten confused/wonky. reboot? Gaaah.... Reboot? It's very weird, if it indeed it was a PA problem, neither mplayer, nor skype (...) would have worked. ... Plus, I killed PA and ran it under gdb in a console, it nothing looks out of the ordinary. > > -- Rex - Gilboa