Description of problem: When I play an audiocd with kscd (via direct digital playback with the alsa backend) it plays fine through the front speaker outputs. However, the output stream does not appear in the pulseaudio volume control (pavucontrol) and so I cannot switch to my headphones on the rear speaker output of my soundcard(*). Presumably I would be unable to take advantage of PAs ability to switch to usb headphones too. If I set the alsa output device to 'default' in the kscd configuration (and restart kscd to make it pick up changes), then the output stream is seen by pulseaudio, as expected. The arts backend has no problems with pulseaudio. * Note that the PA default configuration only uses the first device for each soundcard. I've added a second output sink with "load-module module-alsa-sink device=rear sink_name=Headphones" in my .pulse. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kdemultimedia-3.5.8-8.fc8 pulseaudio-0.9.7-0.17.svn20071017.fc8 pavucontrol-0.9.5-0.4.svn20070925.fc8 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Play music in kscd with the alsa backend 2. Open pavucontrol 3. Look for output stream from kscd.
FWIW the KDE 4 version of Kscd now defaults to Phonon, so for KDE 4 this should be fixed by my patch to make Phonon default to the ALSA default device. The default still needs fixing for Fedora 8 (and arguably 7 too, "default" should also be used with dmix) though.
Should we set the default in kde-settings or should I patch kdemultimedia to make it do the right thing by default? There's some code to use "plughw:0,0" as the device if the device is not set, we can patch that to "default" or we can just set "default" in kde-settings.
If either works (right?), it sounds to me like patching (and pushing upstream) would be the preferred option.
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As I said, this is already fixed in F9, still it should be relatively easy to fix in F8, so maybe we should do it?
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