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On Saturday, 24 November 2018 10:06:37 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> On Friday, 23 November 2018 19:28:19 GMT Dale wrote: |
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> > Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > > Hello list, |
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> > > |
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> > > Over the last few days I've trimmed my plasma setup - to slightly below |
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> > > the |
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> > > minimum, by which I mean that sound notification has stopped working. I |
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> > > can |
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> > > hear streamed radio, but the plasma control panel doesn't show any |
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> > > devices |
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> > > so I don't hear notifications. |
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> > > |
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> > > I've scanned the list of packages I removed but I can't see a likely |
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> > > suspect, and google just returns results about having no sound at all, |
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> > > which is not my case. |
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> > > |
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> > > Can anyone tell me which plasma module I need to install to hear |
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> > > notifications again? |
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> > > |
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> > > Again, the hardware and low-level drivers are fine: it's just plasma |
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> > > that's |
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> > > missing a component. |
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> > |
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> > Could you be missing Kmix? Since it controls volume/mute settings, I'd |
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> > think it would be needed, maybe anyway. |
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> Good idea, but no cigar. |
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> Mick suggested pulseaudio. I don't think it can be that because there's no |
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> sign of it in my backups; neither in world nor under /etc/portage. I'll try |
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> it though; I just need to decide whether to set the USE flag globally or |
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> just on certain packages - or just emerge pulseaudio. The global setting |
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> causes 10 rebuilds, including ffmpeg and firefox, as well as 9 new |
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> packages, so don't hold your breath. |
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That didn't help either. In fact I had to install phonon-gstreamer. |
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I hope that helps somebody one day. |
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Regards, |
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Peter. |
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