Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 01:16:45 +0100 From: "R. W." <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No Sound after upgrading KDE Message-ID: <200409270116.46025.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> In-Reply-To: <1096166889.32109.6.camel@prophecy.dyndns.org> References: <200409252137.06803.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> <1096166889.32109.6.camel@prophecy.dyndns.org>
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On Sunday 26 September 2004 03:48, Christopher Nehren wrote: > On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 21:37 +0100, R. W. wrote: > > I recently upgraded to KDE 3.3 (under FreeBSD 5.2.1) and the sound > > stopped working properly. I hear the tune as KDE starts up, but > > then there is no sound after that. Multimedia applications still > > work properly under XFce, it's just KDE. > > I suspect that you may be seeing the same issue that I do when I > start KDE. Next time you start KDE (after freshly rebooting the > system or proceeding from a setup where you know sound works > properly), open a console login somewhere and run the mixer command. > Note its output: what are the values for the various devices? I've > seen that, after starting KDE 3.3, all of my mixer devices are set to > 0 -- thus muted. They're not broken; you just need to manually reset > them. Thanks, that is the problem. The trouble is that KDE sets the mixer values back to zero each time it starts up. I've tried putting the mixer command in a KDE application-link in ~/.kde/Autostart/, but it seems to be run too early.
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