On 04/13/2010 09:35 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Tuesday 13 April 2010 12:18:31 Neal Becker wrote: >> Neal Becker wrote: >>> Neal Becker wrote: >>>> Don't know if it's kde related. This morning a large update, including >>>> kernel. Now kde tells me: >>>> >>>> "The audio playback device doesn't work, falling back to internal..." >>>> >>>> A look at system settings/multimedia tells me that it wants to remove >>>> pulseaudio. >>>> >>>> My log says: >>>> >>>> Apr 13 06:19:21 localhost rtkit-daemon[2070]: Sucessfully made thread >>>> 2068 of process 2068 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '500' high priority >>>> at nice level -11. >>>> Apr 13 06:19:23 localhost rtkit-daemon[2070]: Sucessfully made thread >>>> 2319 of process 2068 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '500' RT at priority >>>> 5. Apr 13 06:19:23 localhost rtkit-daemon[2070]: Sucessfully made thread >>>> 2322 of process 2068 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '500' RT at priority >>>> 5. Apr 13 06:19:25 localhost rtkit-daemon[2070]: Sucessfully made thread >>>> 2362 of process 2362 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '500' high priority >>>> at nice level -11. >>>> Apr 13 06:19:25 localhost pulseaudio[2362]: pid.c: Daemon already >>>> running. >>>> >>>> ps aux | grep pulse >>>> nbecker 2068 0.1 0.2 449432 5964 ? S<sl 06:19 0:00 >>>> /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start >>>> nbecker 2359 0.0 0.1 92204 3124 ? S 06:19 0:00 >>>> /usr/libexec/pulse/gconf-helper >>>> >>>> Any ideas? >>> >>> This looks suspicious: >>> Apr 13 06:09:02 Updated: phonon-4.4.0-3.fc12.x86_64 >>> Apr 13 06:09:03 Updated: phonon-backend-xine-4.4.0-3.fc12.x86_64 >> >> I found if I do >> pulseaudio -k >> pulseaudio -D Instead of pulseaudio -D can you try using start-pulseaudio-kde instead? -- Rex