RTP, the official TLA for “Return to Port”
May 2nd 2008 11:44 pm
So now I’m back in town again, after a fairly harrowing (for me) patrol. Apparently being chem-radcon officer is a lot of work for inspection. The final grade is apparently classified so I won’t remain on the topic for too long, but I didn’t do too bad at least, which is all I can do really.
Tons more fun was had; I think I actually slept more and saw more movies when I was qualifying than I did this run. (You are supposed to neither watch movies nor be sleeping for no reason until you are qualified ;) Once, I actually got 12 consecutive hours of sleep… and promptly got the nickname “12 down” for the rest of the run. *sigh*
Either way though if you’ve sent me email or left me a comment and I haven’t replied back, well, that’s the reason. I’m living in a different house now so I’ll probably still be busy unpacking but feel free to drop me an email if you need something now that I’m back.
I have noticed much improvement to KDE 4, which is exciting to see. Unfortunately my sound still does not work, but I haven’t troubleshooted (troubleshot?) it at all yet. I’ve also applied the usual 15 or so security upgrades I seem to usually have waiting for me when I pull back in. Now it’s time to think about what computer upgrade I will treat myself to after this last patrol.
Also, two thumbs up to Super Smash Bros. Brawl. If I can figure out how to stop running into the walls I may eventually give two thumbs up to Mario Kart Wii. TODO: Make a TODO list for the new house and stick to it.
I had no sound in KDE4, sound worked for all other applications. I logged out of kde, in from a terminal I deleted the file $HOME/.kde4/share/config/phonondevicesrc
After that I logged in to KDE4 and sound worked for KDE4 (Phonon), too. Hope this helps.
Sound does work when I use e.g. gstreamer-based applications, I looked in systemsettings and Phonon had the right device but said it couldn’t load the driver or something like that.
I tried removing the rc file and re-logging in, and now there are simply no devices. :) I’ll keep trying though.
Got the sound working again. Turned out that the suggested fix worked, an unrelated upgrade caused HAL to go away in the interim (which nothing warned about. :)