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

Lee Revell
2007-01-02T22:10:53Z

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