[SOLVED] no sound as user - kde4

Almucard · n00b Joined: 23 Jul 2005 Posts: 27

I'm having some trouble with phonon not being able to access my soundcard in KDE4 (all versions from portage).

In the multimedia module of systemsettings, all outputs directly relating to my soundcard are greyed out.
I can get sound if I'm running any application not from KDE packages (for example mpg123).

Also, I have tried running systemsettings as root, and as root it seems to work properly. BTW I am in audio group.

I dont think it is problem with specific version of kde (or amarok etc.) becouse i have tested it with diffrent versions
and still nothing.

Thx for any suggestions.
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hamburgler6 · n00b Joined: 11 Aug 2007 Posts: 21 Location: albany,ny

I was having the same problem, and after messing around with the sound driver options in the kernel configuration I have it working now. The driver I use is the intel hd audio driver built into the kernel, not as a module. By default it is compiled with all sorts of codec support I don't need, so I took out a bunch of it. In my case the only options left in are (for what it's worth):

hwdep interface for hd-audio driver
realtek hd-audio codec support
analog device hd-audio codec support
enable generic hd-audio codec parser

I don't know if this will be of any use to you, but it might be worth checking out your in kernel driver options.

Cheers,
Kevin

stan666 · Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 9:18 am Post subject:

same problem here.
Almucard, did the suggestion from hamburgler6 work? I don't want to mess with my kernel
because KDE suddenly cannot use my sound card and all other apps still can.

I have an audigy2 card and no exotic kernel configuration, I use the same config for
quite a long time and I only have problems since I upgraded to KDE 4.3, sound card
support is _not_ statically compiled into the kernel but as a module.

Edit: this is a KDE problem for sure, if I open the phonon config module of systemsettings
as super user working devices appear that are hidden for my normal user

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hamburgler6 · n00b Joined: 11 Aug 2007 Posts: 21 Location: albany,ny

I also was having the problem that phonon was detecting the correct card as superuser, and not as a normal user. I agree it is a KDE problem, but messing around with the kernel options fixed it in my case(for reasons not obvious to me).

stan666 · Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 4:18 pm Post subject:

After removing all the policykit stuff, sound worked again.
I was suggested here
to do a

Almucard · n00b Joined: 23 Jul 2005 Posts: 27

Thank you very much for your help. It solved my problem.

I had to do 3 things:
1.