I actually got PA to work nicely with my KDE desktop. Granted, I use Arch Linux (but will probably switch later since I don't like it) so I did the configuration myself. Took me a couple of hours of fiddling, but it was worth it. Everything (except VLC and sometimes flash) works like I expect them to!<br>
<br><a href="http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/4695/phononconfig.png">Phonon configuration dialog</a><br><br>My solution involves making ALSA talk to PulseAudio via a psuedo-device and then letting PA talk back to the real device in ALSA after that. Yes, that sounds really perverted but it works very well for me. When a program supports PA, it's just PA -> ALSA like usual, but if the software does not support it, the ALSA psuedo-device called "PulseAudio" in my case shows up to be used instead. AFAIK, this device is pretty much just a fast pass-through to PA without much of the overhead.<br>
<br>If you want to replicate my configuration, you can have a look in my ALSA conf file.<br><a href="http://kde.pastey.net/116433">/etc/asound.conf</a><br><br>I cannot find any specific line in my PA config files. Either it solved it by itself, or I did some configuring in one of the GUI programs and they saved that in some random gconf place. It might be enough with the alsa config above. I did this under a long time a long time ago, so I can't remember.<br>
<br>Hope this helps! If this solution is foolish, please speak up. I did this in the eyes of a user and my knowledge about sound servers are mostly nil.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 1:48 AM, Myriam Schweingruber <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:schweingruber@pharma-traduction.ch">schweingruber@pharma-traduction.ch</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">- KDE doesn't use Pulseaudio at all, there is not a single application<br>
that is meant to work with it by default,<br>
</blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">- Pulseaudio apparently only works correctly in combination with Gstreamer,<br>
- Amarok and Dragonplayer (as well as Kaffeine AFAIK) very often don't<br>
play sound when Pulseaudio is installed, and this seems to happen for<br>
many Jaunty users, who tend to be quite frustrated by that experience.<br>
<br>
Shouldn't Kubuntu work by default for most of the users? Well, it<br>
doesn't, and it is a frequent reason for people to either abandon<br>
Amarok or KDE or even change distribution... which is certainly<br>
totally counterproductive!<br>
<br>
</blockquote></div><br>PS. This certainly isn't a permanent solution. This is a way to fix the usability problems for the user while more applications gain support for PA.<br><br>-- <br>Magnus Bergmark - magnus DOT bergmark AT gmail DOT com<br>
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