Upgraded from Hardy to Jaunty, now only sound in KDE 4 apps

[Matthew Flaschen]

Myriam Schweingruber wrote:
> I just checked here, gstreamer shouldn't be a problem without
> pulseaudio. Just try avoiding to use it for KDE4 applications, it has
> some bugs with phonon that really cause trouble. Let's hope this will
> be solved in karmic.
>
> [snip]
>
> Did you restart KDE since you made these changes? That is necessary 
> to reload phonon with the correct settings, after having removed pulseaudio,
> pushed the remaining option in the phonon settings to the bottom
> (that can't be removed completely as libpulse0 is still installed)
> and having removed the phonodevicesrc file in ~/.kde/share/config/

Thank you.  I did:

sudo apt-get remove pulseaudio vlc-plugin-pulse
sudo apt-get install vlc libvlc2 libvlccore0
rm ~/.kde/share/config/phonondevicesrc

then killed X (Ctrl-Alt-Backspace), logged back in, then ran:

asoundconf set-default-card Intel

This last part was prompted by some part of update-manager/Adept.
Probably, what really fixed it was removing pulseaudio and phonondevicesrc

I tested and both VLC and Flash have working sound.  However, one can
not access the sound device if the other is already open.

For instance, if Flash is open, then vlc gives:

oss audio output error: cannot open audio device (/dev/dsp)

The opposite is true too.  If VLC already has the audio device, then
Flash has no sound.

So something is still wrong with the config.

Thanks again,

Matt Flaschen