From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lee Revell Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 22:11:52 +0000 Subject: Re: No sound in KDE with intel hda since 2.6.20-rc1 Message-Id: <1167775912.6670.92.camel@mindpipe> List-Id: References: <200612301844.02413.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> <20061230191123.GA4352@mellanox.co.il> <200612301919.06949.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <200612301919.06949.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Alistair John Strachan Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-sound@vger.kernel.org, Takashi Iwai , PeiSen Hou On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 19:19 +0000, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > On Saturday 30 December 2006 19:11, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > > On Friday 29 December 2006 06:25, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > > > Virtual MIDI Card 1 > > > > > > Compile this feature out, I bet things start working again. > > > > Yes, this helped, thanks. > > BTW, is this expected? > > It's a severe "misfeature" in my opinion that caused me problems years ago. > The first soundcard becomes "default", which can probably be overridden in > many different ways. > > However, I really think a hack should be put in to prevent "virtual MIDI" from > ever being in the first slot, it's just a bug asking to happen. > ALSA allows soundcards to be addressed by name. The bug is that KDE does not handle sound cards being added or removed properly. Gnome solved this problem already - just go to System->Preferences->Sound and select the "Default sound card". Lee