Well, I would like to make a resumee of my experiences: 1.) I needed to install the phonon-backends in $KDEDir and not in $QT4DIR. This makes sure, that system-settings -> multimedia -> phonon lists the backends. Otherwise, an empty list shows up
2.) I had to recompile the alsa programs, I do not now why, but it seems that the installation became corrupt during my KDE building. 3.) After this, I had music on my box. BUT: 4.) Skype shows only pulseaudio as sound driver, and it does not function at all. I tried erasing ~/.Skipe, without success. Then, I tried to uninstall pulseaudio ! As I had already built programs like phonon including pulseaudio in the configuration, the result of uninstalling is, that kdm fails starting xorg ! It was necessary to reinstall pulseaudio. Then I had to rename /usr/bin/pulseaudio and, finally, I got to make Skype accept to use the alsa drivers ! Once installed, it is, in my opinion, not advisable to uninstall pulseaudio. The program seems to be agressive, at least considering Skype. I could not manage it to work ( under KDE ), but probably that is my fault. It seems to be true, that we do not know much about. It is not a problem of starting it: pulseaudio starts from the beginning from /etc/xdg/autostart. Thanks for all contributions, and I hope for a pulseaudio solution. Edgar -- Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers <[email protected]> GPG Key ID:AD5C6F70 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
