Re: Sound disappearing from VLC after kernel update

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 9:53 PM, Patrick Connolly
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Somewhere about Mon, 10-Oct-2011 at 09:05PM +1300 (give or take), Nevyn wrote:
>
> |> 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
> |> >  {~._.~}
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> |> >  (_)-(_)
> |> >
> |>
> |> find ~ -iname "*vlc*" (pretty generic way of finding such files)
> |>
>
>
> Silly me.  I normally would do
>
> locate vlc | grep config
>
> Which would have worked fine.  Think I was looking for a .vlc
>
> Thanks also to Cliff
>
>
> That was easy.  Evidently the problem with Xine is rather different
> (particularly since a different user makes no difference to the
> symptoms).  Generally I prefer to use it in preference to VLC but with
> some DVDs, I can get as far as indicating which part of the DVD I want
> to see and once I select it, Xine vanishes.  I couldn't find anything
> in /var/log/messages but I know that it did used to work before a
> kernel upgrade.
>
> Ideas where I should look would be appreciated.

running from the command line generally sips out error messages that
are informative.

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