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[James Richard Tyrer]

david walcroft wrote:
> Hi,
>   I've had problems with KDE and Alsa sound for some time now,it's 
> always this error:
> 
> Sound server informational message:
> Error while initializing the sound driver:
> device: default can't be opened for capture (Invalid argument)
> The sound server will continue, using the null output device.
> 
> All other third party programmes use Alsa but not KDE and I'm a little 
> stumped,can someone help please.

Some recent KDE versions had a known bug.  The autodetect didn't work 
for the sound system.  The workaround for this is simple:

In the Control Center: Sound & Multimedia -> Sound System.

On the Hardware tab: "Select the audio device".  Set this to "Advanced 
Linux Sound Architecture".

-- 
JRT
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