Bug 536802

Summary: Phonon: "HDA Intel (AD198x Analog) does not work" at every KDE start
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.2 Reporter: Miro Hadzhiev <extigyro>
Component: KDE4 WorkspaceAssignee: E-mail List <kde-maintainers>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Minor    
Priority: P3 - Medium CC: estellnb, etech97, forgotten_sCvTvm8ObT, forgotten_xs3PtXj4XH, harbrink, johann-nikolaus.andreae, novell.admin, wamrfixit
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Hardware: i586   
OS: SUSE Other   
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Description Miro Hadzhiev 2009-09-04 10:35:48 UTC
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090730 SUSE/3.5.2-3.1 Firefox/3.5.2

KDE 4.3.1 "release 1"

Phonon reports that "the audio playback device HDA Intel (AD198x Analog) does not work. Falling back to PulseAudio." The message appears at every KDE start. However, no audio device is muted or does not work according to me.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.start KDE
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Actual Results:  
Notification from Phonon: KDE's Multimedia
Comment 1 Stephan Binner 2009-09-04 17:01:13 UTC
> However, no audio device is muted or does not work according to me.

That means except that popup message everything is working fine? :-)
Comment 2 Miro Hadzhiev 2009-09-08 08:56:05 UTC
Yes, it is. 

The same bug occurs in 11.1, too (the only difference is in the message, of course. It says: "Falling back to Default"). I haven't noticed it till now.
Comment 3 Stephan Binner 2009-09-08 09:33:11 UTC
You can change within "Personal Settings"/systemsettings under "Multimedia" the output device preference and then this popup shouldn't appear anymore.
Comment 4 Stephan Binner 2009-09-08 09:35:17 UTC
*** Bug 442764 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Thomas Rehill 2009-09-14 12:38:42 UTC
I have an ALC888 Analog on board Sound Card and whenever I log into KDE 4 it says that it is not working falling back to ALC888 Digital. Sometimes it does work and right in the middle of playing songs it fails and I get the error message and my music stops playing, so I have to log out and log back in, so that I can play music. This only occurs on the first login. If I logout and then log back in the audio device works. But, now in M7 it is failing while I play music.

Tom
Comment 6 Forgotten User xs3PtXj4XH 2009-09-17 15:38:41 UTC
I had this behaviour in Milestone 6, but have been unable to replicate it for Milestone 7.
Comment 7 Zsolt Sági 2009-09-17 19:12:21 UTC
I'm still using openSUSE 11.1, but with KDE 4.3.1. In the multimedia settings section of KDE system settings the primary default output device for every purpose is "HDA Intel (AD198x Analog)", and the secondary is "PulseAudio". My error message is that "HDA Intel (AD198x Analog)" is not working, so the system will fall back to "PulseAudio".

Finally I figured out, that this startup error message only occurs when something (e.g a headphones or speaker) is plugged into the sound output jack (analog)! When nothing is connected, I get no error messages on KDE startup. This might be the crucial point of the problem.

However, when I set "PulseAudio" to be the primary output device, then non-KDE4 applications (FireFox, artsd) cannot output sound (if I remember correctly).
Comment 8 Stephan Binner 2009-09-21 14:38:54 UTC
*** Bug 540576 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 Stephan Binner 2009-09-22 17:33:24 UTC
*** Bug 508364 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 10 Forgotten User xs3PtXj4XH 2009-10-03 02:37:31 UTC
I have not been able to replicate this in Milestone 8 either.  Is anyone else able to do so? Anyone who has experienced this issue should re-test with Milestone 8 and report their findings here.
Comment 11 Zsolt Sági 2009-10-13 20:55:52 UTC
(In reply to comment #10)
> I have not been able to replicate this in Milestone 8 either.  Is anyone else
> able to do so? Anyone who has experienced this issue should re-test with
> Milestone 8 and report their findings here.

Yes, Milestone 8 seems to work for me too.
Comment 12 Miro Hadzhiev 2009-10-14 08:07:47 UTC
And for me, too. But I didn't have the problem of Tamás Németh (described in https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=536802#c7 - post No 7). I was only seeing the error when I logged in KDE and there was NOT any visible problems to me.
Comment 13 Lubos Lunak 2009-10-14 11:58:08 UTC
Closing then.
Comment 14 Johann-Nikolaus Andreae 2009-10-19 06:29:08 UTC
I still have the problem with rc1. No sound at any aplication. Only the yast soundcheck works. Relogin did not solve the problem.

At last with openSUSE 11.1 i did not have this problem any more. Coud be that it is fixed in KDE 4.3.2.
Comment 15 Forgotten User xs3PtXj4XH 2009-10-26 14:44:52 UTC
Johann, is this from a clean install of RC1?
Comment 16 Johann-Nikolaus Andreae 2009-10-26 15:50:11 UTC
No it is a update from 11.1 to rc1 via zypper dup
Comment 17 Forgotten User xs3PtXj4XH 2009-10-27 06:49:22 UTC
What is the result if you do a full format and install from the RC1 disk?
Comment 18 Forgotten User sCvTvm8ObT 2009-10-28 16:45:58 UTC
may be its problem duplicate as 549991 ? https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=549991
after update user not add in group audio
Comment 19 Johann-Nikolaus Andreae 2009-10-28 17:10:55 UTC
I did not test the reinstall but comment #18 fix it on my system. Now i have sound.
Comment 20 Forgotten User sCvTvm8ObT 2009-10-28 19:08:13 UTC
mark as Duplicate 549991

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 549991 ***
Comment 21 Eberhard Harbrink 2009-10-29 00:28:42 UTC
This bug is *not* a duplicate of bug 549991 IMO, sine the original problem is not related to the user membership in group audio. My user was always in group audio and I had the originally described problem, Anyways the original problem was long solved since comment #13, so status resolved is ok.