[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#448263: Bug#448263: alsa-source: artsd fails to start with ALSA 1.0.15 and sound has to be unmuted in kde

[Arthur Marsh]

Elimar Riesebieter wrote, on 29/10/07 03:14:
...
> Could you
> please do the following:
> 
> Boot your machine without starting kde. Switch to a console like
> <CTRL> <ALT> <F2> login as user and do
> 
> $ alsamixer
> 
> Is the sound muted then?
> 
> I remember a similar bug. alsamixer worked fine and kmix has had its
> own config, though......
> 
> Elimar
> 

I quit kmix then did:

victoria:/home/amarsh04/.kde/share/config# ls|grep kmix|xargs rm

I then rebooted and from a console prompt without starting kde ran 
alsamixer and found that the sound was *not* muted.

When I started kde, having deleted all kmix settings, sound continued as 
normal and I heard the kde start-up sounds (-:.

Where would the bug actually lie, and what would be the best way to 
avoid it in the future?

Arthur.