I have multiple entries for the external devices listed in my device notifier in KDE 4.6 beta2.

has to do with KDE moving away from HAL to devicekit, having both installed causes multiple entries in device manager and Dolphin (probably others). If you remove HAL then only one will show. I removed HAL, no issues so far

see http://www.afiestas.org/one-step-closer ... -hal-free/
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/DeviceKit

Disabling Hal fixed the probelm but nuked my sound. Gotta have sound.

try changing to the VLC phonon back end instead of Xine. At some point I also lost sound (maybe because I removed HAL? Hadn't connected as being related the 2 at the time) but vlc resolved the issue.

google01103 wrote:try changing to the VLC phonon back end instead of Xine. At some point I also lost sound (maybe because I removed HAL? Hadn't connected the 2 at the time) but vlc resolved the issue.

Okay, what do I need for that? Just VLC, or is there other stuff I need too? I've never used VLC in my life.

there are Slackware packages for VLC here http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-slackware.html

As best as I can tell the phonon backend is a KDE/VLC project, openSuse has a rpm but you might need to compile - to compile see http://blogs.fsfe.org/myriam/2010/04/wa ... re-you-go/

Not sure this will resolve your problem but .............

google01103 wrote:there are Slackware packages for VLC here http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-slackware.html

As best as I can tell the phonon backend is a KDE/VLC project, openSuse has a rpm but you might need to compile - to compile see http://blogs.fsfe.org/myriam/2010/04/wa ... re-you-go/

Not sure this will resolve your problem but .............

There are several places I can get VLC; not worried about that. I was just wondering if the phonon backend will come with VLC or if I need something else as well.

no idea, might be included as VLC's openSuse repo includes a phonon-vlc package but the actual repo I use (Packman) doesn't - seems to be dependent on packager and as i don't use Slackware I have no idea

called phonon_vlc.so

Phonon-VLC lives in a separate GIT repository from VLC and has a different release schedule, so I doubt they would be released together by default. Distributions could choose to do so, though, and it would not be unreasonable for dis to package phonon-vlc and vlc-qt together.