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From: Xi Shen <davidshen84@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Sound in KDE-4
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 06:03:13
Message-Id: 53e35fd51001112130x7c2c1ae4qb16c397ebe179f30@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Sound in KDE-4 by Peter Humphrey
1 have you run alsaconf, and start alsasound?
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4 On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 8:34 PM, Peter Humphrey
5 <peter@××××××××××××××.org> wrote:
6 > Hello list,
7 >
8 > Having finished building KDE on my new box (if that task can ever be
9 > considered finished) I'm now tying up some loose ends.
10 >
11 > When I log in to kde via kdm, I get a dialogue box telling me it wants to
12 > remove my sound devices. It says "KDE detected that one or more internal
13 > sound devices were removed. Do you want KDE to permanently forget about
14 > these devices? This is the list of devices KDE thinks can be removed:
15 > Capture: HDA Intel (); Output: HDA Intel ()".
16 >
17 > I don't get the log-in sound played. Later, though, Firefox and Flash manage
18 > between them to stream BBC radio to the speakers and I can listen to the
19 > music.
20 >
21 > What's going on here? The Gentoo sound page is woefully out of date, and the
22 > KDE page is concerned with other things. I haven't found anything useful
23 > about Gentoo and phonon.
24 >
25 > The only sound hardware in the box is on the Asus P7P55D motherboard; it's
26 > an Intel HD Ibex Peak high-definition audio chip according to lspci:
27 >
28 > $ sudo lspci -v -s 00:1b.0
29 > 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak High Definition Audio (rev
30 > 05)
31 >        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 8375
32 >        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 22
33 >        Memory at f7ff8000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
34 >        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
35 >        Capabilities: [60] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
36 >        Capabilities: [70] Express Root Complex Integrated Endpoint, MSI 00
37 >        Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel <?>
38 >        Capabilities: [130] Root Complex Link <?>
39 >        Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
40 >        Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel
41 >
42 > The kernel clearly has control of the device, as I can hear some sounds.
43 >
44 > Any ideas?
45 >
46 > --
47 > Rgds
48 > Peter.
49 >
50 >
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54 --
55 Best Regards,
56 David Shen
57
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Re: [gentoo-user] Sound in KDE-4 Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××××.org>