В Fri, 13 Mar 2015 18:59:01 -0700 don fisher пишет:

Can somebody point me to a link, or explain how the sound is supposed to work. On my last system, there always appeared to be a contest between Firefox (e.g. after YouTube) and other applications.

Not sure I understand it. Usually all sound sources are supposed to be mixed in one output stream, at least by default. Do you want to select single application and mute all the others?

Sorry for being so dumb on this, but I am a software developer and rarely tried running sound before. In my home I have a receiver that allows me to chose the desired input channel. How is this accomplished under linux? It also is not clear to me which software components need to be loaded. I saw on the online setup how to make the system bark, but not how to select between Firefox and Rhythmbox, for instance. I also installed the Rhythmbox RPM and cannot make it operate. It will not load my large directory of music file. If I select a single track, it appears to be playing the track (as the bar moves across the top) but no sound comes from the speakers.

I did a Google on opensuse 3.2 sound and most of the listings were ancient, like 2001.

Don

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On 03/13/2015 09:59 PM, don fisher wrote:

Can somebody point me to a link, or explain how the sound is supposed to work.

Possibly, if you tell us more about your system and what the sound hardware is and what sound modules you have (use 'lsmod') and what sound applcaiton you are running. The default is pulseaudio unless you've chosen or configured something else.

On my last system,

What was your last system?

there always appeared to be a contest between Firefox (e.g. after YouTube) and other applications.

Contest meaning what? * that whichever one started first come though and the other didn't * both came though overlaying each other * the last one started took control exclusively

In my home I have a receiver that allows me to chose the desired input channel. How is this accomplished under linux?

How is it accomplished on your receiver? On my hifi amp its push buttons, but I also used to have a 'mixer' cosnole that had sliders. I'm using KDE and my audio control is Kmix See https://www.kde.org/applications/multimedia/kmix/ *IF* I have multiple sources, for example if I open multiple podcasts and have many talking heads', I get a slider for each one. This is dynamic. I close one and the appropriate slider goes away.

It also is not clear to me which software components need to be loaded.

That will depend on your hardware and on your desktop. if you tell us, we can advise, but you might want to try configuring sound using YAST - the normal openSuse approach :-) (YAST2-sound)

If I select a single track, it appears to be playing the track (as the bar moves across the top) but no sound comes from the speakers.

Yes, I get that with mplayer, so I use bangarang. But as I say, I use KDE. What do you use? If you use KDE there's plenty of sound players to try and video players that can also handle sound files. You may need to configure or add in appropriate plugins for the specific player. I keep my music in OggVorbis but my VOIP system delivers voicemail as .WAV format. Some player I've tried will handle both, some only one or the other. As I say, without more details we can only give limited advice. You might want to try some of the other more 'standard' (aka come as part of the distribution) sound players as part of debug tactic. See https://www.kde.org/applications/multimedia/ for KDE Of course there's always VLC :-)

I did a Google on opensuse 3.2 sound and most of the listings were ancient, like 2001.

That makes no sense. Try # zypper search pulseaudio to see what you have installed Might I also not that installing from RPMs is NOT A GOOD IDEA. Using zypper or YAST to install from a repository ensure that the dependencies will be loaded or that you will be told they are unavailable. Try using http://software.opensuse.org/search to find a suitable source of Rhythmbox That led me to http://software.opensuse.org/package/rhythmbox-desktop-art You might try those repositories. -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org