Re: [gentoo-user] Plasma sound devices

[Mick]

On Friday, 23 November 2018 17:44:00 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> Over the last few days I've trimmed my plasma setup - to slightly below the
> minimum, by which I mean that sound notification has stopped working. I can
> hear streamed radio, but the plasma control panel doesn't show any devices
> so I don't hear notifications.
>
> I've scanned the list of packages I removed but I can't see a likely
> suspect, and google just returns results about having no sound at all,
> which is not my case.
>
> Can anyone tell me which plasma module I need to install to hear
> notifications again?
>
> Again, the hardware and low-level drivers are fine: it's just plasma that's
> missing a component.

I have the kde-plasma/plasma-meta installed here, although I do not run the 
plasma desktop.  It has the USE flag pulseaudio enabled, which I suspect is 
needed to get things like desktop notifications working:

[+ C    ] pulseaudio
    kde-plasma/plasma-meta: Install Plasma applet for PulseAudio volume 
    management
        [+  ] (5) 5.13.5 [gentoo]
        [+  ] (5) 5.14.3-r1 [gentoo]

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Regards,
Mick