How must be configured the sound in KDE?

Question

Hello
I have installed alsa and pulseaudio and configure . In gnome 3 the sound work perfect. But in KDE not,  have installed phonon-gstreamer and somedays work fine other not, and i have to select in VLC to use the alsa output, I don't have individual sound control  for apps, some days yes.
And always get a message about "Falling back to default" on start. That troubles i have since the 2012 or even 2009
Last edited by felipe (2013-07-07 16:36:45)

Answer 1

This is related to randomly switching "places" of detected sound devices. If you want to have sound on the same device, after reboot, after suspend, in KDE, you have to create sound config file, place it in /etc/modprobe.d/
See this:
cat alsa-base.conf
options snd slots=snd_hda_intel,snd_SB-XFI
options snd_hda_intel index=0
options snd_SB_XFi index=1
#options snd_SB_XFI index=2
#options snd_ctxfi index=2
If i had not created it, than on every reboot, every suspend and wake it up, my cards would switches places and i would not have sound. In this config, my primary card is intel sound card (as a matter of fact this is only the driver for it, the sound card in fact is VIA integrated chipset operating on intel drive) and XFI that has "1' passed to config. What it means? Use as a secod device.
BTW -
options snd slots=
is new order of setting devices here, old one is this:
options snd_hda_intel index=xxxx
Last edited by firekage (2013-07-08 17:51:51)