Bug 442764

Summary: KDE4 complains about failed soundcard, but it works
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.1 Reporter: Zsolt Sági <novell.admin>
Component: KDE4 WorkspaceAssignee: E-mail List <kde-maintainers>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Minor    
Priority: P3 - Medium CC: andrea, contezero, harbrink, hi-du, monkey9
Version: Final   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: Other   
OS: Other   
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Attachments: KDE4 popup

Description Zsolt Sági 2008-11-07 16:38:27 UTC
When I log in to KDE4, it gives me an error reporting popup (see the attached file, which may be informative despite it's in in hungarian), complaining about the failed soundcar. In spite of this, it works.

Another info:

linux:~ # hwinfo --sound
12: PCI 1b.0: 0403 Audio device
  [Created at pci.318]
  UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_27d8
  Unique ID: u1Nb.FXfaO+N_pn7
  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0
  SysFS BusID: 0000:00:1b.0
  Hardware Class: sound
  Model: "Intel 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller"
  Vendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation"
  Device: pci 0x27d8 "82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller"
  SubVendor: pci 0x103c "Hewlett-Packard Company"
  SubDevice: pci 0x30aa
  Revision: 0x01
  Driver: "HDA Intel"
  Driver Modules: "snd_hda_intel"
  Memory Range: 0xe8580000-0xe8583fff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  IRQ: 21 (331965 events)
  Module Alias: "pci:v00008086d000027D8sv0000103Csd000030AAbc04sc03i00"
  Driver Info #0:
    Driver Status: snd_hda_intel is active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe snd_hda_intel"
  Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Comment 1 Zsolt Sági 2008-11-07 16:39:13 UTC
Created attachment 250727 [details]
KDE4 popup
Comment 2 Stephan Binner 2008-11-13 08:24:51 UTC
*** Bug 444491 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Stephan Binner 2008-11-18 10:45:09 UTC
*** Bug 445949 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 andrea florio 2008-11-18 11:00:05 UTC
is enought to install phonon-backend-xine instead of the gstreamer one by default...
Comment 5 Robby Verberne 2008-11-20 09:05:35 UTC
I do not understand how this should work, if there is no way to change the engine in amarok2?
(it does not change anything with amarok2)
Comment 6 Stephan - 2008-11-25 22:29:41 UTC
here the same with my thinkpad.
Comment 7 Michele Cherici 2008-12-08 15:40:24 UTC
I've the same problem with RC1 but with a different sound card (TERRATEC Aureon 7.1 Space)
Comment 8 Zsolt Sági 2009-01-14 16:04:27 UTC
Still applies to the final version, with the difference, that now the warning popup is missing.


For example, I restarted my machine today, and there was no login sound during the first login. Amarok was also totally mute. It seemed to play the songg, but no sound. Other, non-KDE4 applications (for example VLC and Firefox were able to play sound). My workaround for this case is to log out and then log in again (similar resolutioon than old versions of Windows ;). On the next login KDE4 can play the sounds of the system messages, and Amarok also regains it sound. This is the typical behavior of my phonon-xine installation.
Comment 9 Eberhard Harbrink 2009-06-28 06:48:25 UTC
Removing all pulse-audio packages fixed this behavior. So it's a glitch in pulse-audio.
Comment 10 Stephan Binner 2009-09-08 09:35:16 UTC
Closing as dupe of newer bug report.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 536802 ***