On Saturday 12 March 2011 17:58:05 Gabriel Ramirez wrote: > On 03/11/2011 11:24 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: > > A few days ago I installed a Creative SB X-Fi Surround 5.1 box - a USB > > device that allows you to use good speakers from your laptop. At first > > I had no success at all, but following the steps at > > http://fedorasolved.org/Members/fenris02/pulseaudio-fixes-and-workarounds > > got me started. This is where the fun and games begins. > > > > When I look at System Settings> Phonon, the number of devices that are > > listed varies enormously. I have seen about 10 on one occasion. Today > > there are 3, one of which is greyed out. I have no idea what causes the > > devices to be seen on some occasions but not on others. FWIW, the 5.1 > > system tops the list, the laptop's internal speakers are next, then the > > greyed out one is another configuration of the 5.1 system. > > Hi, > > maybe you want make this change: > > resample-method = trivial > > in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf > > and reboot your machine , I have trouble restarting pulseaudio in F14 > via killing the pulseaudio seems pulseaudio restart itself so executing > start-pulseaudio-kde after the kill leaves sometimes some app without sound > > another issue what phonon-backend do you use I was using using > phonon-backend-vlc but because of: > > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=264292#c4 > > after following the instructions in that comment and reboot, after oa > few hours the problem came back following the instructions again and > changing to phonon-backend-gstreamer and reboot again, and the problem > was fixed or at least minimized > I don't think pulseaudio was properly installed, for some reason. After trying a few commands that I found on blogs I got a message saying that no pulseaudio daemon was running, and I couldn't find any way to get it. Rebooting didn't do it, so I assume that something was missing stopping it from initialising at bootup. I never say any phonon-anything backends offered - just xine, gstreamer and vlc. I've removed PA altogether, and at least have sound from a single speaker now. I could really use some help to re-install PA properly this time. If I can get so far I can try your suggestions. Thanks for answering Anne -- New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
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