[kde-freebsd] Missing audio record device

[Bengt Ahlgren]

Adriaan de Groot <groot at kde.org> writes:

> On Wednesday 02 December 2015 14:55:39 Gene wrote:
>> I can play sound with no problems.
>> In settings>multimedia, audio playback lists the 'oss' device, while audio
>> recording has no devices whatsoever.
>
> Hunh. Now you mention it, I have the same. A "default" playback device listed 
> everywhere, and no sound when I hit the "test" button. But the mixer systray 
> thingy shows a whole bunch of audio devices that I didn't even know I had 
> (e.g. HDMI on the video card as an audio output).
>
> Messing about with notifications, or changing the backend, does not seem to do 
> anything. No sound via KDE. But using vlc directly works fine. gst-play doesn't 
> seem to have any useful codecs installed here, so it does not. That might 
> impact the gstreamer phonon backend, but not the vlc one, which I also tried.
>
> So, no, no troubleshooting tips, but a confirmation that it affects 4.14.3 on 
> 10.2 too.

I need to (forcefully) remove phonon-gstreamer for any sound to work in
KDE.

But it sounds like the OP might have a different issue, since the "oss"
device is listed.  Hmm, I don't have any devices listed under "Audio
Recording" either in System settings->Multimedia->Audio and Video
Settings.

Bengt