Phonon oddities

[Andrew Stromme]

On Tuesday 21 April 2009 14:31:56 Christoph Spielmann wrote:
> On 21.04.2009 17:53, Ian Monroe wrote:
> > 2009/4/21 Christoph Spielmann<spielc at gmail.com>:
> >> Hmm! Well i guess it makes kinda sense. I was in a hurry and not barely
> >> awake when i wrote this
> >>
> >> I've been experiencing some really curious stuff when it comes to
> >> phonon.
> >>
> >> As i don't need a full-blown desktop environment (i just use
> >> some application from both kde and gnome mostly kde tho) i kinda created
> >> my own window manager consisting of compiz, compiz-deskmenu and awn. One
> >> of my fav programs is and probably will forever be amarok.
> >>
> >> Since kde-4.2.2 when i start amarok without doing anything phonon seems
> >> to play music (progress bar is showing some activity) but i can't hear a
> >> tone. I found out that i HAVE to start systemsettings before i start
> >> amarok and execute the following steps to actually hear something:
> >>
> >> Go to "Multimedia", check or uncheck the "Show advanced devices"
> >> checkbox and click on Apply.
> >>
> >> After that sound works perfectly but now this whole procedure starts to
> >> get on my nerves. I tried to find out how (or better said if) i can
> >> somehow automate this whole process using qdbus but till now i haven't
> >> found a working solution.
> >>
> >> So does anybody experience the same issues and have a working solution?
> >> Actually any input would be welcome as i ran out of ideas.
> >>
> >> I hope that's better now ;) Also i CC'ed kde-multimedia-mailinglist as
> >> they probably know better what's going on here.
> >
> > That was going to be my suggestion. ;)
> >
> > You could try uninstalling pulseaudio. That usually fixes weird
> > problems like this.
>
> You were right Ian. Uninstalling pulseaudio fixed it.
>
> Thanks a ton!
>
> Christoph
>
> > Ian

Yet another PulseAudio <---> Phonon conflict. Why am I not surprised....
I wish there were a way to determine exactly what's conflicting/going wrong in 
these cases. 

Andrew