No sound in kubuntu 10.04
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Dear all,
last year I used Ubuntu 8.04 LTS and everything worked fine. But the other day, I decided to do a full reinstall of everything and, since a friend of mine had recommended me to use Kubuntu instead of Ubuntu, I installed Kubuntu 10.04 LTS (I used a lot of KDE programs even in Ubuntu since they are better!) Problem is that now, I have no sound when I use Amarok, nor for flash... I am a pretty big linux noob but always eager to learn! I looked through a loot of solutions on the internet but none of them worked for me. The last thing I found out is that when I test my sound car under multimedia settings (HDA Intel (ALC262 Analog), it returns the message that the audio playback device does not work... Could you help me out? Thank you! |
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Amarok doesn't handle sound itself, it lets Phonon do so. I move this thread to Multimedia.
Running Kubuntu 22.10 with Plasma 5.26.3, Frameworks 5.100.0, Qt 5.15.6, kernel 5.19.0-23 on Ryzen 5 4600H, AMD Renoir, X11
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Hmm I should have known that. I was really tired yesterday when I posted the message.
But could you please help me out over here? I really like to use Kubuntu but without sound it's pretty hard for me. |
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Please check you have the phonon-xine-backend configured and make sure you don't use Pulseaudio (this is a recommendation for Kubuntu 10.04, if you use 10.10 you need Pulseaudio).
Also make sure nothing is muted in Kmix, if necessary you can also check all channels with alsamixer which is a command line tool.
Running Kubuntu 22.10 with Plasma 5.26.3, Frameworks 5.100.0, Qt 5.15.6, kernel 5.19.0-23 on Ryzen 5 4600H, AMD Renoir, X11
FWIW: it's always useful to state the exact Plasma version (+ distribution) when asking questions, makes it easier to help ... |
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Thank you for your post!
Forgive me my ignorance but what exactly do you mean by configuring phonon-xine-backend? I went to settings/multimedia/backend etc... but there is nothing I can do there. The only option is xine. So I uninstalled Pulseaudio but I guess I need something else to replace it with? Because now it says no playback/recording through the pulseaudio server is possible. Kmix and alsamixer are all fine... What now? |
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You shouldn't have pulseaudio installed in Kubuntu 10.04 in the first place, unless you also installed Gnome multimedia applications. Then it would be needed of course and unistalling it is a bad idea.
And no, you don't need anything to replace pulseaudio in that version of Kubuntu, Phonon handles the sound quite well. Please remove this file and start KDE again: $HOME/.kde/share/config/phonondevicesrc
Running Kubuntu 22.10 with Plasma 5.26.3, Frameworks 5.100.0, Qt 5.15.6, kernel 5.19.0-23 on Ryzen 5 4600H, AMD Renoir, X11
FWIW: it's always useful to state the exact Plasma version (+ distribution) when asking questions, makes it easier to help ... |
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I deleted that file but nothing has changed.
What I find strange though, is that I only have Master, PCM and mics in alsamixer and kmix. That probably has to do with the problem? |
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Did you check the KMix settings for more channels? Alsamixer should see those natively, make sure nothing is muted.
Running Kubuntu 22.10 with Plasma 5.26.3, Frameworks 5.100.0, Qt 5.15.6, kernel 5.19.0-23 on Ryzen 5 4600H, AMD Renoir, X11
FWIW: it's always useful to state the exact Plasma version (+ distribution) when asking questions, makes it easier to help ... |
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Yes I did, and there is no front output channel or whatever available. Alsamixer doesn't see those either...
Do you have an idea? |
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Not really, sorry. Could you please give the specifications of your soundcard? The command 'lspci' shows the details. Also could you please state which exact KDE version you are using. Your problem could be caused by an old Phonon version.
Running Kubuntu 22.10 with Plasma 5.26.3, Frameworks 5.100.0, Qt 5.15.6, kernel 5.19.0-23 on Ryzen 5 4600H, AMD Renoir, X11
FWIW: it's always useful to state the exact Plasma version (+ distribution) when asking questions, makes it easier to help ... |
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I am using KDE 4.4.2 Thank you! |
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Hi,
if I add the line
to the /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf file, I get the Speaker channel in alsamixer! But the sound still does not work 
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Hello again,
when I add the lines
I get even more channels. Furthermore, when I give ALC262 (analog) priority (the only output device that überhaupt gives an output when I test it), I get music! And it works fine. Headphone discovery doesn't work, but that's easily fixed manually with alsamixer. One more thing though, is the microphone, mainly for skype. I installed skype and get fine sound but the microphone doesn't seem to work. I've had the problem before, in the past, and I've never really been able to fix it. Do you have a clue? Thank you a lot! |
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Indeed, your KDE version is not exactly new, so I guess a Phonon problem that was solved since.
You should consider updating your KDE version, the backports repository holds bugfix releases for the KDE 4.4.x series: open the package manager and in the software sources go to the Updates tab and check the Lucid-backports repository. Even if it says "unsupported", it is well supported by both the KDE and Kubuntu community. Another option is to upgrade to KDE 4.5.1, which is in the Kubuntu backports PPA, see also http://www.kubuntu.org/news/packages-av ... ations-451 for instructions on how to upgrade in Lucid.
Running Kubuntu 22.10 with Plasma 5.26.3, Frameworks 5.100.0, Qt 5.15.6, kernel 5.19.0-23 on Ryzen 5 4600H, AMD Renoir, X11
FWIW: it's always useful to state the exact Plasma version (+ distribution) when asking questions, makes it easier to help ... |
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Well the reason why I installed 10.04 LTS is twofold: I want to resume work on a thesis so I need a stable system and also I tried 10.10 and it doesn't work properly. I didn't feel like sorting out the reasons for this. I think I'm happy with the LTS version.
If I update KDE to using the Lucid-backports repository it means that I'm still using 10.04, right? I grew weary of updating because it tended to screw up my system a few times already. Thank you for the help |
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