Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Plasma sound devices

[Mick]

On Sunday, 25 November 2018 16:24:21 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Saturday, 24 November 2018 10:06:37 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > On Friday, 23 November 2018 19:28:19 GMT Dale wrote:
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > Could you be missing Kmix?  Since it controls volume/mute settings, I'd
> > > think it would be needed, maybe anyway.
> >
> > Good idea, but no cigar.
> >
> > Mick suggested pulseaudio. I don't think it can be that because there's no
> > sign of it in my backups; neither in world nor under /etc/portage. I'll
> > try
> > it though; I just need to decide whether to set the USE flag globally or
> > just on certain packages - or just emerge pulseaudio. The global setting
> > causes 10 rebuilds, including ffmpeg and firefox, as well as 9 new
> > packages, so don't hold your breath.
>
> That didn't help either. In fact I had to install phonon-gstreamer.
>
> I hope that helps somebody one day.

Interesting ... I don't have phonon-gstreamer, but media-libs/phonon with 
USE="pulseaudio vlc", which brings in media-libs/phonon-vlc here.  Either way, 
one or the other phonon backend seems to be necessary to be able to produce 
sound.

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Regards,
Mick