On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 8:39 AM, Borden Rhodes <j...@bordenrhodes.com> wrote:
> > In my case. "timidity" was causing my problem. Within X, I did a "sudo > kill > > timidity", and immediately my Volume control on the pane of KDE's Plasma > > desktop changed, and the volume control slider produced test clicks. I > > tried purging timidity, but it seems to want to take half of KDE with it, > > so I'm gonna hold off until tomorrow to tinker any more with it. > > > > Whew! > > Yessir. The timidity update on 19 June messed up my sound, too. After > a frustrating few hours of troubleshooting I discovered that timidity > is hogging the sound server. > > Which brings us to the obvious question of how do you get Pulse to > play nicely with Timidity? > > This morning I removed "timidity" from the "audio" group, and rebooted. All seems well for me, but then, I don't use Timidity (to my knowledge - don't really know what it is). I do notice that a "ps ax | grep timidity" does not return anything. -- Kent West <")))>< Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com