[gentoo-user] Sound in KDE-4

[Peter Humphrey]

Hello list,

Having finished building KDE on my new box (if that task can ever be 
considered finished) I'm now tying up some loose ends.

When I log in to kde via kdm, I get a dialogue box telling me it wants to 
remove my sound devices. It says "KDE detected that one or more internal 
sound devices were removed. Do you want KDE to permanently forget about 
these devices? This is the list of devices KDE thinks can be removed: 
Capture: HDA Intel (); Output: HDA Intel ()".

I don't get the log-in sound played. Later, though, Firefox and Flash manage 
between them to stream BBC radio to the speakers and I can listen to the 
music.

What's going on here? The Gentoo sound page is woefully out of date, and the 
KDE page is concerned with other things. I haven't found anything useful 
about Gentoo and phonon.

The only sound hardware in the box is on the Asus P7P55D motherboard; it's 
an Intel HD Ibex Peak high-definition audio chip according to lspci:

$ sudo lspci -v -s 00:1b.0
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak High Definition Audio (rev 
05)
        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 8375
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 22
        Memory at f7ff8000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [60] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
        Capabilities: [70] Express Root Complex Integrated Endpoint, MSI 00
        Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel <?>
        Capabilities: [130] Root Complex Link <?>
        Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
        Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

The kernel clearly has control of the device, as I can hear some sounds.

Any ideas?

-- 
Rgds
Peter.