On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Jan Steffens <jan.steffens@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > What are the contents of /etc/asound.conf and ~/.asoundrc? > > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Madhurya Kakati <mkakati2805@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi all, >> I am using kde 4.4.4. whenever i get any notifications knotify4 throws >> up error stating seg fault. this is very annoying cause sometime while >> chatting if chat window is unfocused, if someone replies, i get >> notification and immediately knotify throws error. >> >> Application: KNotify (knotify4), signal: Segmentation fault >> [KCrash Handler] >> #5 0x00007f2fed7912f0 in snd_pcm_extplug_close () from /usr/lib/libasound.so.2 >> #6 0x00007f2fed750d65 in snd_pcm_close () from /usr/lib/libasound.so.2 >> #7 0x00007f2fed76f135 in snd_pcm_plug_close () from /usr/lib/libasound.so.2 >> #8 0x00007f2fed750d65 in snd_pcm_close () from /usr/lib/libasound.so.2 >> #9 0x00007f2febbd0f98 in gst_alsasink_close () from >> /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstalsa.so >> #10 0x00007f2fec30eb86 in gst_audioringbuffer_close_device () from >> /usr/lib/libgstaudio-0.10.so.0 >> #11 0x00007f2fec2ff143 in gst_ring_buffer_close_device () from >> /usr/lib/libgstaudio-0.10.so.0 >> #12 0x00007f2fec30a396 in gst_base_audio_sink_change_state () from >> /usr/lib/libgstaudio-0.10.so.0 >> #13 0x00007f2fecbb28fc in gst_element_change_state () from >> /usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0 >> #14 0x00007f2fecbb32e2 in gst_element_set_state_func () from >> /usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0 >> #15 0x00007f2fed2efa2a in >> Phonon::Gstreamer::AudioOutput::setOutputDevice(Phonon::ObjectDescription<(Phonon::ObjectDescriptionType)0> >> const&) () >> from /usr/lib/kde4/plugins/phonon_backend/phonon_gstreamer.so >> #16 0x00007f2ff7c2185c in >> Phonon::AudioOutputPrivate::setupBackendObject() () from >> /usr/lib/libphonon.so.4 >> #17 0x00007f2ff7c21e63 in >> Phonon::AudioOutputPrivate::createBackendObject() () from >> /usr/lib/libphonon.so.4 >> #18 0x00007f2ff7c1f0cc in >> Phonon::AudioOutputPrivate::init(Phonon::Category) () from >> /usr/lib/libphonon.so.4 >> #19 0x000000000040c871 in _start () >> > cat shows this error cat: /etc/asound.conf: No such file or directory. The output of cat ~/.asoundrc is ctl.equal { type equal; } pcm.plugequal { type equal; # Modify the line below if you don't # want to use sound card 0. #slave.pcm "plughw:0,0"; #by default we want to play from more sources at time: slave.pcm "plug:dmix"; } #pcm.equal { # Or if you want the equalizer to be your # default soundcard uncomment the following # line and comment the above line. pcm.!default { type plug; slave.pcm plugequal; }