I'm seeing a general problem in KDE 4's multimedia's subsystem's handling of my sound card, where apps such as amarok-2.4.3 (amarok-kde4) erroneously report:
Sound device HDA Realtek ALC888 PCM #0 Analog (pcm) is not working, falling back to default (what exactly *is* this default, anyway?). When I try to configure sound inside amarok, the test sound plays fine using PCM #0, but as soon as I actually try to use it outside of the configuration dialog, another popup appears with the above message. Meanwhile, sound is hideously garbled. I can hear the file I'm trying to play, but at the same time, I'm hearing something that sounds like water sluicing through a drainpipe (I know, hardly a very technical description, but that's what it sounds like, I swear). :-) $ uname -a FreeBSD serene.no-ip.org 9.0-BETA1 FreeBSD 9.0-BETA1 #3: Sat Aug 20 15:25:34 CDT 2011 conr...@serene.no-ip.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CUSTOM amd64 $ cat /dev/sndstat FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 64bit 2009061500/amd64) Installed devices: pcm0: <HDA Realtek ALC888 PCM #0 Analog> (play/rec) default pcm1: <HDA Realtek ALC888 PCM #1 Analog> (play/rec) pcm2: <HDA Realtek ALC888 PCM #2 Digital> (play) pcm3: <HDA Realtek ALC888 PCM #3 Digital> (play) And from dmesg: hdac0: HDA Codec #0: Realtek ALC888 pcm0: <HDA Realtek ALC888 PCM #0 Analog> at cad 0 nid 1 on hdac0 pcm1: <HDA Realtek ALC888 PCM #1 Analog> at cad 0 nid 1 on hdac0 pcm2: <HDA Realtek ALC888 PCM #2 Digital> at cad 0 nid 1 on hdac0 pcm3: <HDA Realtek ALC888 PCM #3 Digital> at cad 0 nid 1 on hdac0 Sound works just fine under KDE 3 and any other environment. Only KDE 4 is exhibiting this odd behavior. Any suggestions? I've already done a recursive rebuild/reinstall of both amarok-kde4 and kde4, to no avail. -- Conrad J. Sabatier conr...@cox.net _______________________________________________ kde-freebsd mailing list kde-freebsd@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd See also http://freebsd.kde.org/ for latest information