Re: Sound disappearing from VLC after kernel update

On 10 October 2011 20:26, Patrick Connolly <[email protected]> wrote:

> I recently updated my Fedora 15 which did a kernel update.  Now the
> sound has vanished from VLC.  Xine is still fine -- though it still
> won't play some DVDs that stopped working after the previous update.
>
> If I log on as a different user the problem vanishes (from VLC) which
> indicates there's a setting in ~/ directory somewhere, but there
> doesn't seem to be a ~/.vlc directory nor anything I can think of where
> they'd be.
>
> It might work if I wipe my ~/.kde directory and let KDE create a new
> one, but there are oodles of settings in there I don't fancy redoing.
>
> Any ideas what I could be overlooking?
>
> TIA
>
>
> --
>   ___     Patrick Connolly
>  {~._.~}
>  _( Y )_          Good judgment comes from experience
> (:_~*~_:)         Experience comes from bad judgment
>  (_)-(_)
>

find ~ -iname "*vlc*" (pretty generic way of finding such files)

rm -fr .config/vlc
rm -fr .local/share/vlc
rm -fr .cache/vlc

Seems to put everything back into a "out of the box" state...

Regards,
Nevyn
http://nevsramblings.blogspot.com/
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