kde 4.1 phonom

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#1

My system is opensuse 11 i386

My soundcard is uses CA0106…

I updated to kde 4.1 now there is no system sound on startup it gives message phonom cant open (something not sure what) falling back to default hw

Now i don have system sound. i can play movies and songs there is no problem with 5.1 movies also…

so i installed phonom-xine hoping that will solve the problem still problem exist…

Now i disabled the notification sound…

Is there anyway to fix this i kind of miss those annoying system notification sound…

#2

you likely have on-board sound and a card

set up sound cards in yast hardware

#3

Did you try Kmenu>Configure Desktop> Sound the backend tab?
Once there see if you have Xine there select it click apply see if that works for you.

#4

I did that one… After installing phonom-xine backend… No luck

#5

Mine onboard is a usb-snd cmedia … But it is disabled in bios… and i also get an error saying my pci card (my sbls) not working switching to default hw

#6

To bad nothing seemed to work for me with phonom… well have to work with no system sound i guess…

#7

SDB:AudioTroubleshooting - openSUSE

#8

Well trying to fix this one… I tried may solution… After that lot of many small annoying bugs started to show… SO i reinstalled the opensuse 11 and kde4.1 with xinephonon backend… not strangely it works…

#9

i have the same problem, all sounds ok (firefox, mplayer, xine, amarok, etc.), but KDE 4.1 sound system down. Kde 3.5.9 its ok!

#10

have u tried installing phonon-backend-xine?

#11

I am having the same issue. The system notifications have worked intermittently with both KDE 4.1 and Gnome. I don’t know what changes but they will just stop working. I get sound in Firefox and mplayer. I found this link about the problem in the KDE forum:
System Notification sounds not playing - Graphics & Multimedia - KDE-Forum.org
I am having some trouble finding the kcontrol to check. I tried typing it in the search in the Kmenu but it didn’t seem to find it and was only looking to search on the web. If I find a solution I will post it here.

#12

its called “systemsettings” in kde 4

#13

While I don’t have KDE-4.1 (I am running only KDE-3.5.9 on openSUSE-11.0 on a test PC), I am trying to keep the openSUSE audio troubleshooting guide reasonably current and helpful. It has been a challenge to keep that guide current, given the new round of problems introduced as a result of the big changes to sound in openSUSE-11.0 and KDE4.

Hence I added a short Step-7 and Step-8 to the audio troubleshooting guide (referencing other pages) to provide a small measure of help for Pulse Audio and for Phonon. More help is most definitely needed and welcome from anyone who can help contribute and improve the audio troubleshooting guide:
SDB:AudioTroubleshooting - openSUSE

#14

Further to this, I am thinking of creating an opensuse page on Phonon for kde users, to address Phonon related sound problems. The idea is it would start off with a paragraph describing what phonon is supposed to do (I’ll copy that from the sound concepts page: Phonon Sound-concepts - openSUSE ) and then give troubleshooting hints (I’ll copy that from the KDE phonon troubleshooting page): Help & Documentation: Phonon, Open Source Multimedia

#15

I had issues with my notification sounds in KDE 4.1 as well, but I fixed it by switching from the Gstreamer backend to the Xine backend (put Xine as higher priority). It works better than the Gstreamer IMHO.