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Yukimura
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 Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 10:51 am Post subject: No sound in kde 4.2 [solved] |
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Hello everyone!
I installed kde 4.2 on my pc's and I don't have any sound in kde applications. I can play media via vlc, mplayer,.... but it seems to me that phonon is't working, since I don't have anything to select in Systemsettings>Multimedia>Backend. However I can set the device I want to use for Music,Video,... in Systemsettings>Multimedia>Device Preference.
So I can't use amarok 2, and I'm not planing on installing amarok 1.4 since I would need to install half of stuff from kde 3.5.
Is there any way to fix this problem? Did anyone have any similar problem?
Kind regards! 
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audiodef
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Yukimura
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| Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 9:37 pm Post subject: |
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This is a fresh Gentoo install with only kde KDE 4.2.
I can't think of any reason why sound wouldn't work in kde, because it works in vlc, mplayer, mp3blaster and everything is allright with alsa (afaik). |
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platojones
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| Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 10:21 pm Post subject: |
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Have a look at your system settings. Go to the backend tab and make sure that KDE is identifying at least Xine in the backend list box.
If not, and assuming you have installed the required phonon packages (media-sound/phonon + USE=xine and kde-base/phonon-kde) |
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Yukimura
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| Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 10:33 pm Post subject: |
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In systemsettings in backend tab I have nothing, kde doesn't identify xine nor gstreamer.
Yes, I have phonon (4.3.0) and phonon-kde installed.
And I have xine installed. So really I have no idea why it's not working....
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audiodef
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platojones
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| Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 12:47 am Post subject: |
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| Yukimura wrote: | In systemsettings in backend tab I have nothing, kde doesn't identify xine nor gstreamer.
Yes, I have phonon (4.3.0) and phonon-kde installed.
And I have xine installed. So really I have no idea why it's not working....
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Do you have the xine use flag in place for the phonon package?
Also, make sure that /usr/lib/kde4/plugins/phonon_backend exists and has phonon_xine.so in it. |
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Yukimura
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| Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 8:57 am Post subject: |
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| platojones wrote: | | Do you have the xine use flag in place for the phonon package? |
Yes, I have:
| Code: | [I] media-sound/phonon
Available versions: (~)4.2.0!t (~)4.3.0 {debug gstreamer xcb xine}
Installed versions: 4.3.0(00:32:06 02/16/09)(gstreamer xcb xine -debug)
Homepage: http://phonon.kde.org
Description: KDE multimedia API |
| platojones wrote: | | Also, make sure that /usr/lib/kde4/plugins/phonon_backend exists and has phonon_xine.so in it. |
ls says it exists:
| Code: | # ls /usr/lib/kde4/plugins/phonon_backend/
phonon_gstreamer.so phonon_xine.so |
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alunduil
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| Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 9:05 am Post subject: |
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Try the following as root:
| Code: | | ln -s /usr/share/kde4/services/phononbackends /usr/kde/4.2/share/kde4/services/ |
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Alunduil |
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Yukimura
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| Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 9:14 am Post subject: |
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| alunduil wrote: | Try the following as root:
| Code: | | ln -s /usr/share/kde4/services/phononbackends /usr/kde/4.2/share/kde4/services/ |
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Yey, it worked, thank you very much. |
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pisolonet
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| Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 5:17 pm Post subject: |
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| alunduil wrote: | Try the following as root:
| Code: | | ln -s /usr/share/kde4/services/phononbackends /usr/kde/4.2/share/kde4/services/ |
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Alunduil |
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zlm
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| Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 9:38 pm Post subject: |
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Hi!
I'm also having this problem on my PC.
I have recently upgraded to KDE 4.2 and now there is no sound on KDE 4 apps, like Amarok 2 or Dragon Player and on KDE notifications.
KDE 3 and Gnome based aplications like KPlayer and Firefox work fine.
Phonon 4.3.0 is emerged with xine use flag. Phonon-kde is also installed.
I tried running "ln -s /usr/share/kde4/services/phononbackends /usr/kde/4.2/share/kde4/services/", but I have no /usr/kde/4.2/ directory.
I'd be really glad if someone could help me on this. Thanks in advance. |
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alunduil
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| Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 9:41 pm Post subject: |
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If you don't have that directory I'm assuming you didn't have the kdeprefix flag set.
In that case you'll need to find phononbackends and place it in the correct services directory, but I don't know where that would be off-hand. I'll see if I can get a non kdeprefix 4.2 install to play with later.
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Alunduil |
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zlm
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| Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 1:22 pm Post subject: |
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| alunduil wrote: | If you don't have that directory I'm assuming you didn't have the kdeprefix flag set.
In that case you'll need to find phononbackends and place it in the correct services directory, but I don't know where that would be off-hand. I'll see if I can get a non kdeprefix 4.2 install to play with later.
Regards,
Alunduil |
You're right, I don't have the kdeprefix flag set.
The phononbackend directory is placed in /usr/share/kde4/services/.
I searched for "services" and found these directories:
/usr/share/dbus-1/services
/usr/share/services
/usr/share/apps/konqsidebartng/virtual_folders/services
/usr/share/apps/plasma/services
/usr/share/kde4/services
/usr/lib/dbus-1.0/services
/usr/kde/3.5/share/services
/root/.kde/share/services
/root/.kde4/share/services
/share/dbus-1/services
/home/zlm/.kde/share/services
/home/zlm/.kde4/share/kde4/services
/etc/services |
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zlm
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| Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 6:55 pm Post subject: |
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| I fixed all my sound problems by enabling the "pulseaudio" use flag and doing "emerge uND world" |
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Grey_Zz
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| Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 9:11 pm Post subject: |
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I have the same problem. But for me the previous changes haven't been successful.
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# ls /usr/kde/4.2/share/kde4/services/phononbackends/
gstreamer.desktop xine.desktop
# ls /usr/lib/kde4/plugins/phonon_backend/
phonon_gstreamer.so phonon_xine.so
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| Code: | [I] media-sound/phonon
Available versions: (~)4.2.0!t (~)4.3.0 {debug gstreamer xcb xine}
Installed versions: 4.3.0(23:53:37 27.02.2009)(debug gstreamer xcb xine)
Homepage: http://phonon.kde.org
Description: KDE multimedia API |
| Code: | Portage 2.1.6.7 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r1, 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 x86_64)
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System uname: Linux-2.6.25-gentoo-r7-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Quad_CPU_Q8200_@_2.33GHz-with-glibc2.2.5
Timestamp of tree: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:30:01 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.6-r1
dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r7
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7
dev-util/cmake: 2.6.2-r1
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63
sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2
sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26
virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2
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CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/4.2/env /usr/kde/4.2/share/config /usr/kde/4.2/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"
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DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
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LANG="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="en ru"
MAKEOPTS="-j5"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
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Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY |
And again all non-phonon players(vlc, mplayer) work good enough, but in dragon player and amarok I don't hear sound. |
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zlm
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| Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2009 1:09 pm Post subject: |
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I have phonon compiled without the gstreamer use flag.
Try adding "media-sound/phonon -gstreamer" to /etc/portage/package.use and re-emerging phonon. |
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Grey_Zz
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| Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2009 2:46 pm Post subject: |
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I've fixed it by using pulseaudio.
I configured pulseaudio to be used by all phonon players and other applications such as mplayer, gxine, etc in accordance with HOWTO PulseAudio. The only problem is unstable support of pulseaudio in Adobe Flash Player 10. So firefox periodically craches.
And it seems to be some problems when I use hibernation as well but I didn't test it much enough. |
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