[kde-linux] Audio device permanently disappeared from Multimedia System settings list

[Dale]

Jiri Moravec wrote:
> On 3.5.2010 10:11, Dale wrote:
>    
>> Jiri Moravec wrote:
>>      
>>> Knotify (probably) sometimes display information about nonfuctional audio devices:
>>> "KDE detected that one or more internal sound devices were removed.
>>> Do you want KDE to permanently forget about these devices?
>>> This is the list of devices KDE thinks can be removed:
>>> HDA ATI SB, ALC1200 Analog"
>>>
>>> Two weeks ago this happened to me again and this time I did something not too wise. I clicked on YES.
>>> And from that point I'm screwed, because I can't play any sound from any X11/KDE aplications, only from terminal command line.
>>> No youtube videos, no amarok, nothing.
>>>
>>> ALSA have no problem with my ALC1200 Analog:
>>> ~ aplay -l
>>> **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
>>> card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: ALC1200 Analog [ALC1200 Analog]
>>>     Subdevices: 0/1
>>>     Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
>>> card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 1: ALC1200 Digital [ALC1200 Digital]
>>>     Subdevices: 1/1
>>>     Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
>>> card 1: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 3: ATI HDMI [ATI HDMI]
>>>     Subdevices: 1/1
>>>     Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
>>>
>>> But KDE Multimedia System settings list only 2 devices and only latter is actually displayed if "Show advanced devices" is not checked:
>>> HDA ATI SB, ALC1200 Digital (IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output)
>>> HDA ATI HDMI, ATI HDMI (HDMI Audio Output)
>>>
>>> And it is HDA ATI SB, ALC1200 Analog, which I really need back.
>>>
>>> I have kde-base/phonon-kde-4.3.5 and media-libs/xine-lib-1.1.17 (yes gentoo).
>>> With gstreamer backend I'm not successfull. I tried almost everything include complete fresh install KDE and xine.
>>>
>>> Maybe question "Do you want KDE to permanently forget about these devices?" mean that there is some file where it is saved which devices must be permanently forgeted. But I found nothing.
>>>
>>> Do you know any method how can I solve my problem?
>>>
>>> Thank you for any help
>>> Jiří Moravec
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>> Well, I searched for my sound card and it is in this file:
>>
>> /home/dale/.kde4/share/config/phonondevicesrc
>>
>> If it was me, I would rename the file, maybe add .old on the end, then
>> login and see if things work.  If not, you may want to rename the file
>> and put it back.  I suspect this will fix it but I haven't tested it.
>> If it breaks, you can have the pieces. No promises.
>>
>> I have ran into this before but I just didn't answer yes.  I'm not sure
>> why it doesn't see my card at times.  It's rare that it does this but
>> you are not alone on this problem.
>>
>> Hope that helps.
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> :-)  :-)
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> Nope, when I reinstalled KDE, I removed all config files - (find /home -type d -name .kde4 -exec rm -rf {} \;).
>
> When I remove phonondevicesrc again and restart X11/KDE new created phonondevicesrc file:
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [AudioDevice_HDA ATI HDMI, ATI HDMI\nHDMI Audio Output_playback]
> cardName=HDA ATI HDMI, ATI HDMI (HDMI Audio Output)
> deleted=false
> deviceNumber=-1
> hotpluggable=false
> iconName=audio-card
> index=-2
> initialPreference=30
> isAdvanced=false
>
> [AudioDevice_HDA ATI SB, ALC1200 Digital\nIEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output_capture]
> cardName=HDA ATI SB, ALC1200 Digital (IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output)
> deleted=false
> deviceNumber=-1
> hotpluggable=false
> iconName=audio-card
> index=-3
> initialPreference=30
> isAdvanced=true
>
> [AudioDevice_HDA ATI SB, ALC1200 Digital\nIEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output_playback]
> cardName=HDA ATI SB, ALC1200 Digital (IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output)
> deleted=false
> deviceNumber=-1
> hotpluggable=false
> iconName=audio-card
> index=-1
> initialPreference=30
> isAdvanced=true
>
> [Globals]
> nextIndex=4
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> ALC1200 Analog device is still missing. Probably problem is with xine or maybe deeper.
>
> Any new idea?
>
>    

I don't have any new ideas.  Maybe there is a global config somewhere 
deep in /usr?

Dale

:-)  :-)