Bug#607459: pulseaudio: KDE starts up in "alsa mode"

[Daniel Schaal]

Package: pulseaudio
Version: 0.9.22-2
Severity: normal

KDE doesn't recognize that Pulseaudio is running and talks directly
to ALSA (the phonon device list shows the alsa devices, as does kmix).

I tried the PA packages from Ubuntu (1:0.9.22-0ubuntu3) and KDE
correctly switches to pulseaudio using those packages.

So I looked into the differences between the Debian/Ubuntu
packages and found that using the build-dependencies from the
Ubuntu package but everything else from the Debian package
(and building that in a clean chroot) KDE uses PA from the start.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (102, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.37-rc6-00038-g506502d (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages pulseaudio depends on:
ii  adduser              3.112+nmu2          add and remove users and groups
ii  consolekit           0.4.3-2             framework for defining and trackin
ii  libasound2           1.0.23-2.1          shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii  libc6                2.11.2-7            Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdbus-1-3          1.4.0-2             simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libice6              2:1.0.7-1           X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libltdl7             2.2.6b-2            A system independent dlopen wrappe
ii  libpulse0            0.9.22-2            PulseAudio client libraries
ii  libsamplerate0       0.1.7-3             Audio sample rate conversion libra
ii  libsm6               2:1.2.0-1           X11 Session Management library
ii  libsndfile1          1.0.23-1            Library for reading/writing audio 
ii  libspeexdsp1         1.2~rc1-1           The Speex extended runtime library
ii  libtdb1              1.2.7+git20101021-1 Trivial Database - shared library
ii  libudev0             164-3               libudev shared library
ii  libwrap0             7.6.q-19            Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  libx11-6             2:1.3.3-4           X11 client-side library
ii  libx11-xcb1          2:1.3.3-4           Xlib/XCB interface library
ii  libxcb-atom1         0.3.6-1             utility libraries for X C Binding 
ii  libxcb1              1.7-1               X C Binding
ii  libxtst6             2:1.2.0-1           X11 Testing -- Record extension li
ii  lsb-base             3.2-26              Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  udev                 164-3               /dev/ and hotplug management daemo

Versions of packages pulseaudio recommends:
pn  gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio     <none>      (no description available)
ii  libasound2-plugins           1.0.23-1+b1 ALSA library additional plugins
pn  pulseaudio-esound-compat     <none>      (no description available)
ii  pulseaudio-module-x11        0.9.22-2    X11 module for PulseAudio sound se

Versions of packages pulseaudio suggests:
pn  paman                         <none>     (no description available)
pn  paprefs                       <none>     (no description available)
ii  pavucontrol                   0.9.9-1    PulseAudio Volume Control
pn  pavumeter                     <none>     (no description available)
ii  pulseaudio-utils              0.9.22-2   Command line tools for the PulseAu
ii  rtkit                         0.9-2      Realtime Policy and Watchdog Daemo

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