I think your problem may be related to use of PulseAudio in GNOME/Ubuntu, while KDE 4.3 used in 9.10 is not supporting PA yet. KDE 4.4 should have proper PulseAudio support and may fix your issue.
If you would like to try out KDE 4.4 beta2 (there will be also RC in around a week), you could try it from kubuntu-ppa/beta PPA. Note: this will upgrade all KDE related packages to KDE 4.4 prerelease version. In any case, it is not much that Ubuntu packagers can do to solve this issue, so it might be better to report the problem to upstream, i.e. http://bugs.kde.org -- Digikam tries to initialize phonon when run from Gnome https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/503453 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to digikam in ubuntu. -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-b...@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs