On Tuesday 14 September 2010 13:58:08 Colin Guthrie wrote: > 'Twas brillig, and sibu xolo at 14/09/10 13:33 did gyre and gimble: > > On Monday 13 September 2010 11:59:14 Colin Guthrie wrote: > >> 'Twas brillig, and sibu xolo at 13/09/10 11:10 did gyre and gimble: > > First of all thanks (or shall I say 'kallu kalay') for the help. > but you really do want to use all the patches from this branch since > v0.9.21 tag (there will likely be another 10 fixes landing later today) > I downloaded the stuff from GIT. The bundle was labelled as [pulseaudio-0.9.19 which is strange considering the released stuff is labelled 0.9.21. I did not clean out the original installation before I compiled/installed the git stuff so a couple of the libraries had 0.9.21 extensions (I merely labelled them as _X). I then recompiled alsa-plugins and so far I have sound on all logins and logouts as well as the cli. So much progress has been made. > > ---e) audio CDROMs do not play neither with KsCD nor Kaffeine for any > > logins > > This is likely an issue to do with using analog playback rather than > digital extraction (DAE) and subsequent software playback. You can > probably use a low level alsamixer (alsamixer -c0) to unmute the CDROM > element, but really most applications should be using digital extraction > and software playback these days AFAIK. > > I'd ignore this particular problem until all others are addressed :) I still do not have CDROM sound nither with Kaffeine nor KsCD, I tried an internet search but came up with nowt so any pointers you can give will be grtefully received. Once again many thanks for your help. sincerely sibu xolo. > Col