I attained Sound Heaven by removing pulseaudio and all its works. poc On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 14:29 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I was listening to a CD (Yehudi Menuhin) on one F-8 laptop, > where it worked fine (using amarok), > and moved to another, apparently identical, F-8 laptop, > and got no sound at all. > I tried "killall -9 pulseaudio" and it worked perfectly. > > There seem to be a vast number of sound applications > competing for use. > What exactly is the relation between pulseaudio and amarok? > I see on my KDE system I also have KDE=>Multimedia=>CD Player > but I have no idea what application this refers to. > Clicking on it does not produce any sound, in any case. > > KDE=>System=>Soundcard Detection seems to me completely useless. > It either tells me that sound is working, which I already know, > or else that it is not working. > I cannot see what function this program could possibly serve, > unless one has more than one soundcard, > which surely is extremely rare. > > RealPlayer, mplayer, helix, amarok, KsCD, KMix - > is there any end to this ... > >
