My sound keeps going out ever since I moved to KDE. If I jump over to GNOME I find my volume is turned all the way down! No idea how this is happening. Any insight? Could there be some key command I dont know about in KDE that I keep pressing and turning the volume down? Its not on mute, just down to zero. Strangely enough, the kmix shows all volume levels at 100%

Also, is this something I can fix in KDE without having to logout and go into GNOME? Thanks in advance!

EDIT: Just went over to GNOME and found the volume back at zero again. Now I am back in KDE and sound is at zero. Funny thing also I notice, the intro sound works fine when going into KDE and when logging out of KDE the exit sound works too! Strange.

Please check your system for Pulseaudio, which if you have any GNOME applications running on startup could very well be the cause of the problem.

I do not have this problem on my work computer. I have KDE on there, but did not upgrade it to the very latest 4.4. Here at home I'm running the newest version and I keep experiencing this problem.

Not sure how to check for pulse audio. I have ktorrent starting when the computer boots. Let me see what else.... and Dropbox. Thats it!

I went into Multimedia - Sound & Video Configuration" and Pulse Audio is third down on the list. When I click the first one to test it, it tells me "HDA Intel (ALC880 Analong) does not work"

To check if Pulseaudio is running, open System Monitor ( Ctrl + Esc ) and filter for "pulse". It will be running under your user.

There is a 'normalising' feature in pulseaudio that could be implicated. Take a look at /etc/pulse/daemon.conf and set flat-volumes = no. It cured the volume problem here.

Thanks for the replies, I will check it as soon as I get home and post my results.

Just curious, any way to uninstall the 4,4 upgrade?

I've lost my sound since I updated to 4.4. Prior to that I had sound. When the system starts it tells me my sound isn't working properly. Pulseaudio is present in the system monitor. I've check and see no gnome programs loading on start. If I configure sound with the multimedia option I can hear sound sometimes. No program I have will play sound back, period. I use this to do a lot of my day in and day out work.

I'm a bit disappointed in this update.

If you are using the Xine backend, please uninstall pulseaudio.

Why?

Pulse isn't the sound architecture of choice these days?

Pulseaudio severely interferes at this time with the operation of KDE applications. Pulseaudio is preferred by GNOME applications ( along with GStreamer ). KDE picks nothing although Xine works the best at this time.

My understanding is that pulse is the future of all things Linux and thus I hope that the KDE folks can resolve this. The main reason I say this is that this appears to be an issue with KDE 4.4 as KDE 3.3.5 had no issues with pulse being present. I have about 8-13 Linux boxes all using KDE as the desktop. My main user workstation has no sound with Pulse being loaded (though it worked in KDE 4.3.5). My multimedia computer connected to my LCD TV has pulse running and sound works.

On my main workstation I had to remove pulse to resolve the issue, but it also removed some other things in the process, which I wish didn't have to be removed. Other than that, aside from the overabundance of bugs in the new KDE 4.4 I have stabilized this workstation to some extent--until I discover the next series of annoying bugs.

I certainly hope this release doesn't get the attention that KDE 4.0 received, as I see that coming. Hopefully a 4.4.1 will be due out pronto.

jimbo99 wrote:I've lost my sound since I updated to 4.4. Prior to that I had sound. When the system starts it tells me my sound isn't working properly. Pulseaudio is present in the system monitor. I've check and see no gnome programs loading on start. If I configure sound with the multimedia option I can hear sound sometimes. No program I have will play sound back, period. I use this to do a lot of my day in and day out work.

I'm a bit disappointed in this update.

This is an intermittent problem on my system - I'm not sure if it is the fault of KDE or Kubuntu.

What I do know is that Pulse Audio is NOT installed on my system and 90% of the time audio works perfectly, it seems that occasionally the audio card is not detected, I'm guessing that some boot processes are loaded in parallel and every once in a while there is some sort of conflict.