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If at all possible avoid it! |
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I installed it awhile back for similar reasons ... I needed a BT headset |
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that some programs could only use via pulse. |
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Since then (and currently) audio only seems to work sporadicly with |
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strange, and hard to trace problems - its reputation as a pita to work |
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with is well earned in my experience. |
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:( |
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BillK |
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On Sun, 2012-08-19 at 23:11 -0300, João Matos wrote: |
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> Hi list. |
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> The KDE phonon can't work properly when I plug a USB audio card (like |
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> a webcam with microphone) neither recognize my bluetooth headset. |
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> When I used to try to use my webcam microphone, phonon got lost every |
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> time I've reboot the system. It always asked me to forget the devices, |
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> as if there were new sound cards every time the system rebooted. It |
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> also wasn't able to decide which should be the default sound card. |
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> Sometimes it guessed correctly, most the time not. Other problems: |
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> when kde had the control of a device, none application outside kde |
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> were able to use it, as skype or mplayer. |
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> The solution I found then was to disable the support from my webcam's |
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> audio card on kernel. Without the USB card support, my system get back |
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> to normal behavior and I was able to use the webcam. Of course, it was |
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> kinda extreme. |
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> So, I was wondering if use pulseaudio should fix it, but I'm not sure |
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> if it can help. What do you think? |
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> Any help will be appreciated. |
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> thanks in advance, |
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> -- |
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> João de Matos |
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> Linux User #461527 |
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