On Tuesday 15 February 2011 11:44:24 Duncan wrote:
Peter Nikolic posted on Tue, 15 Feb 2011 08:24:01 + as excerpted:
I have been looking at opensuse 11.4 RC1 with KDE 4.6 now i am not
sure where the correct place for this is but here goes .
OS11.4rc1 install seems to default to pulseaudio (pa) which if it works
is fine apart from with pa running Kmix adopts a dire personality where
each slider id it it's own Tab .
Question is how can i revert Kmix back to the old sensible method but
keep with pa i have tried binning /home/user/.kde4/config/kmix* that
just stops kmix until i log out and back in again when we are back in
the same disgusting boat of one slider oer tab dont like it dont
appreaciate it find it very clunky to use all in all hard work for
something that should be simple .
I'm not an OpenSuSE user (Gentoo) nor a pulseaudio user (straight alsa,
phonon-vlc as the kde/phonon backend), but here's a simple trick that may
well fix it for you, given the above:
Those kmix config files? Instead of deleting them, truncate them to zero
bytes (delete everything in them, or delete them and then touch them to
recreate @ 0 bytes), then set permissions on them read-only. (I've used
this trick to good effect with a number of other kde uncooperatives. If
they can't write the bad config...)
If that doesn't work (it might not depending on the config saving
mechanism) try setting them to root ownership and read-only.
If that doesn't work (depending on the technique used by config-saving
mechanism, you may need to set perms on the containing directory, which
isn't ideal given its a general kde config dir, not kmix specific),
there's three more complex options you might be able to try depending on
how your system is setup:
If the filesystem in question is ext2/3/4 based, consider setting the
files in question immutable. (FWIW I've never done this as I run
reiserfs here and IIRC it doesn't have an immutable bit, but it's an
interesting concept.)
If your system runs SELinux security contexts, you can try editing the
security contexts of the files so kmix can't touch them. (Again, no
selinux here so I've not actually tried it.)
Setup a script that deletes the files either as part of the login process,
before kmix is up and running to read them, or perhaps as part of the
logout process. (I HAVE done this sort of thing, before, actually
somewhat frequently, as because the technique simply runs a script, it's
as flexible as the commands I can run from a script. =:^)
Well fixed it uninstalled pulseaudio all fine now mixer back to sanity sound
still working from what i have been told on the suse list it seems it is a
personality used for pulseaudio henc i will not use pa till this problem is
solved
Unless anyone knows how to doctor this so called personality
Pete .
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