I found an interesting link on KDE's Pulseaudio integration: http://colin.guthr.ie/2009/10/so-how-does-the-kde-pulseaudio-support-work-anyway/ .......... So when libphonon is used in an application, a connection to PulseAudio will be attempted. If that connection fails everything will work as currently and nothing much changes. If the connection succeeds, we establish if "module-device-manager" is loaded. This is a module specifically written to implement the routing policy (an ordered priority list of devices for each category of sound produced - e.g. Notifications, Music or Video). If this module is not detected we offer a reduced/cut-down PulseAudio integration where the user will only see a single, virtual "PulseAudio" sound "device" listed in the KDE configuration system's multimedia section. If m-d-m is detected however, users will get the full rich experience. ........... QUESTION: How does one tell KDE/phonon to quit looking and attempting to contact pulseaudio (since I deinstalled pulseaudio). Every time a KDE audio app is started, there's a lag of 5-10 seconds before the application even starts as it attempts to contact pulseaudio and then times out:: gnulem-121-~/Music> amarok socket(): Address family not supported by protocol ... For those of us not running pulseaudio, is there an environment variable or some magic ~/.kde/* setting to tell phonon to quit looking for pulseaudio? (Or shorten the timeout to zero?). And also, if a phonon app doesn't find pulseaudio, shouldn't it cache that result somewhere instead of retrying for the nonexistant server every time audio needs to be setup? (Is that a bug or a feature?)\ FYI, other than the startup delay, KDE's audio integration is quite nice. For example, I can tell phonon to send music output to Jack (and if jack is not running, it then talks to the soundcard directly). Niels http://nielsmayer.com _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
