Re: Default KDE to PulseAudio

Neal Becker wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 September 2008, Mark Bidewell wrote:
>> When I use KDE, the actual HW is the default sound device which causes
>> immediate failure messages.  Shouldn't KDE default to PulseAudio for its
>> sound device?
>>
>> Mark Bidewell
> 
> I find this whole setup bewildering.  But don't mind me, I'm just a EE with 30 
> years experience.

It turns out that while we tested/configured phonon-xine-backend to 
"just work", phonon-gstreamer-backend still has issues (and requires 
manual tweaking).  Problem being that the upgrade process from kde-4.0 
to kde-4.1 ends up making the latter (-gstreamer) the default backend, 
which is causing some head-aches.

We've issued a fast-track update to address this:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/phonon-4.2.0-5.fc9

-- Rex

p.s.  nitty-gritty details involve yum (recently?) changing its 
depsolving/preferred updates method/algorithm to no longer prefer the 
matching package with the shortest name, ie -xine should beat -gstreamer.

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