Re: No sound in KDE with intel hda since 2.6.20-rc1

Michael S. Tsirkin
2006-12-30T20:45:20Z

> > > > > 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.
>
> So should we enable Virtual MIDI in kernel config? Since I have it off and
> aRts have no sound with ALSA backend.

Try updating to latest git - I have 7479b1ce5ea41a828002c60739cff37f47b62913
with Virtual MIDI off and ALSA seems to work.

BTW, Amarok has an Engine dialog where you can easily switch between backends
which is good for testing.

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