As soon as 11.2 starts, it gives me notification that Phonon cannot find pulseaudio (GREAT!), and says “falling back to HD…whatever it is”…
Sound works ok…
Since I dont like pulse can I remove Phonon, as I dont see its point… I already have all codecs…
…or it is used by something I do use?
Reference, falling back to default, this is a known bug. I believe a number of users have reported this on both 11.1 and 11.2. For 11.1 there are a more than a fewthreads here, where users have posted solutions that worked for them:
Phonon is the central sound framework of KDE4… by removing it, lots of apps that depend on it and use it (amarok2 being one of them) will no longer function properly… so… are you kidding me? Instead of removing the piece of **** pulseaudio that’s causing the problems, you want to remove the Phonon system?
In a normal 11.2 installation from DVD with KDE 4.3.1 the installer does not install pulseaudio. Thats the reason why phonon falls back to your HDA(thats your soundcard). If you open the the kcontrol and then point audio you can decide that hda has a higher priority than pulseaudio. And if you have done that, your problem will be solved.
Yap, I did that. Set higher priority of HDA (after writing post). I don’t have pulse, but still, don’t know why I have it there, and why is “primary” when pulse is not installed by default?!
Anyways, I won’t remove Phonon, didn’t know what it was really, just seen that it makes problems… didn’t know that it was bug…
Anyways, I will solve that “error” problem, as it is just notification, not actually doing any misbehaving, as sound works OK.
I read some interview with creator of PulseAudio, he is complaining that Cannonical didn’t update version of it etc etc… oh man, get real. It’s piece of ****… Do it right man… if you can.
Real question is: why distros include it, in first place, when it’s so buggy…