Some questions that do 3d6 fire damage

Posted Aug 26, 2010 21:39 UTC (Thu) by sfeam (subscriber, #2841)
In reply to: Some questions that do 3d6 fire damage by nix
Parent article: Systemd and Fedora 14

And on that Perfect Setup page you will find the following advice:

KDE 4 uses Phonon as the main audio interface. The Xine backend of Phonon should eventually use PulseAudio automatically, but at the time of writing the pulse plugin for Xine is too unreliable, so it's disabled by default. While waiting for that to get better, Phonon uses Alsa. Therefore, to get Phonon to use PulseAudio, you have to edit your ~/.asoundrc or /etc/asound.conf. However, the normal .asoundrc modifications aren't enough. See #232 (specifically the workaround part). New progress is being made with KDE 4 and Phonon all the time. Please refer to the KDE wiki page for further information and setup instuctions.

... which matches my experience. Getting PA to work with KDE4 is somewhere on the spectrum from painful to impossible. And it doesn't get you away from dealing with the ALSA configuration.