linux-kernel - Re: No sound in KDE with intel hda since 2.6.20-rc1

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Message-Id: <1167775912.6670.92.camel@mindpipe>
Date:	Tue, 02 Jan 2007 17:11:52 -0500
From:	Lee Revell <rlrevell@...-job.com>
To:	Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@....ed.ac.uk>
Cc:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...lanox.co.il>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-sound@...r.kernel.org, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>,
	PeiSen Hou <pshou@...ltek.com.tw>
Subject: Re: No sound in KDE with intel hda since 2.6.20-rc1

On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 19:19 +0000, Alistair John Strachan wrote:
> On Saturday 30 December 2006 19:11, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > On Friday 29 December 2006 06:25, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > > Virtual MIDI Card 1
> > >
> > > Compile this feature out, I bet things start working again.
> >
> > Yes, this helped, thanks.
> > BTW, is this expected?
> 
> It's a severe "misfeature" in my opinion that caused me problems years ago. 
> The first soundcard becomes "default", which can probably be overridden in 
> many different ways.
> 
> However, I really think a hack should be put in to prevent "virtual MIDI" from 
> ever being in the first slot, it's just a bug asking to happen.
> 

ALSA allows soundcards to be addressed by name.  The bug is that KDE
does not handle sound cards being added or removed properly.

Gnome solved this problem already - just go to
System->Preferences->Sound and select the "Default sound card".

Lee

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