Audio/Sound controls work in Unity, not in KDE
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I just installed KDE on top of my original Ubuntu 16.04 LTS installation. I quite like it so far, but one problem is that the sound control doesn't work well at all. There are several problems:
- While I was able to select HDMI outputs in Unity sound control, here in "Phonon Audio and Video", the two HDMI ports are listed, but somehow greyed out and I am unable to see them anywhere else. No sound is able to come out through HDMI outputs
- I was able to connect my Bluetooth headphone and it showed up. I can also play Test sound through it just fine. However, all the sound from actual applications is still coming out through the laptop's internal speakers.
I saw the post No sound from bluetooth headset, but it's detected and installed pavucontrol, which helped me solve the second problem (I am now able to select playback device for each individual audio stream, which I wasn't able to do before).
However, the HDMI output is still not shown even in pavucontrol.
I don't really understand why this is happening. If I just switched a desktop environment, surely what was possible under the previous desktop environment should also be possible here?
Is there a way to just use the GNOME Audio management software under KDE and set the output device correctly? (e.g. I can still use baobab in KDE even though it's originally from GNOME.) I don't seem to be able to launch it in KDE. Or should I do something else to solve the problem?
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I just installed KDE on top of my original Ubuntu 16.04 LTS installation. I quite like it so far, but one problem is that the sound control doesn't work well at all. There are several problems:
- While I was able to select HDMI outputs in Unity sound control, here in "Phonon Audio and Video", the two HDMI ports are listed, but somehow greyed out and I am unable to see them anywhere else. No sound is able to come out through HDMI outputs
- I was able to connect my Bluetooth headphone and it showed up. I can also play Test sound through it just fine. However, all the sound from actual applications is still coming out through the laptop's internal speakers.
I saw the post No sound from bluetooth headset, but it's detected and installed pavucontrol, which helped me solve the second problem (I am now able to select playback device for each individual audio stream, which I wasn't able to do before).
However, the HDMI output is still not shown even in pavucontrol.
I don't really understand why this is happening. If I just switched a desktop environment, surely what was possible under the previous desktop environment should also be possible here?
Is there a way to just use the GNOME Audio management software under KDE and set the output device correctly? (e.g. I can still use baobab in KDE even though it's originally from GNOME.) I don't seem to be able to launch it in KDE. Or should I do something else to solve the problem?
sound pulseaudio kde hdmi plasma
asked Jan 28 at 21:44
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I just installed KDE on top of my original Ubuntu 16.04 LTS installation. I quite like it so far, but one problem is that the sound control doesn't work well at all. There are several problems:
- While I was able to select HDMI outputs in Unity sound control, here in "Phonon Audio and Video", the two HDMI ports are listed, but somehow greyed out and I am unable to see them anywhere else. No sound is able to come out through HDMI outputs
- I was able to connect my Bluetooth headphone and it showed up. I can also play Test sound through it just fine. However, all the sound from actual applications is still coming out through the laptop's internal speakers.
I saw the post No sound from bluetooth headset, but it's detected and installed pavucontrol, which helped me solve the second problem (I am now able to select playback device for each individual audio stream, which I wasn't able to do before).
However, the HDMI output is still not shown even in pavucontrol.
I don't really understand why this is happening. If I just switched a desktop environment, surely what was possible under the previous desktop environment should also be possible here?
Is there a way to just use the GNOME Audio management software under KDE and set the output device correctly? (e.g. I can still use baobab in KDE even though it's originally from GNOME.) I don't seem to be able to launch it in KDE. Or should I do something else to solve the problem?
sound pulseaudio kde hdmi plasma
asked Jan 28 at 21:44
xji
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I just installed KDE on top of my original Ubuntu 16.04 LTS installation. I quite like it so far, but one problem is that the sound control doesn't work well at all. There are several problems:
- While I was able to select HDMI outputs in Unity sound control, here in "Phonon Audio and Video", the two HDMI ports are listed, but somehow greyed out and I am unable to see them anywhere else. No sound is able to come out through HDMI outputs
- I was able to connect my Bluetooth headphone and it showed up. I can also play Test sound through it just fine. However, all the sound from actual applications is still coming out through the laptop's internal speakers.
I saw the post No sound from bluetooth headset, but it's detected and installed pavucontrol, which helped me solve the second problem (I am now able to select playback device for each individual audio stream, which I wasn't able to do before).
However, the HDMI output is still not shown even in pavucontrol.
I don't really understand why this is happening. If I just switched a desktop environment, surely what was possible under the previous desktop environment should also be possible here?
Is there a way to just use the GNOME Audio management software under KDE and set the output device correctly? (e.g. I can still use baobab in KDE even though it's originally from GNOME.) I don't seem to be able to launch it in KDE. Or should I do something else to solve the problem?
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sound pulseaudio kde hdmi plasma
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