Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3666 mails)

[Dumb Waiter <dumbwaiter@xxxxxxxxx>]

Have been scratching my head due to this, for several nights now:

I have tried to record sound in KDE (Krecord, Audacity, even
Qarecord) and also did try out Skype, but the microphone 
seems to be a problem - it records on a very very low level,
like a whisper really, and in Skype the fellow in the other 
end barely hears me.
 
While I can hear myself in the headphones just fine, loud
and clear, a recording ends up useless "whisper". 

Have played with various mic settings, mic boost is on, have 
played with etc/asound.state settings based on an usenet msg, 
and with sound related permissions. In Skype I tried starting 
Skype with "artsd something" parameter based on a newsgroup 
article; no help.

As I see it here and there in usenet messages that other people
too do have this problem in Suse 9.2, and as someone else -
apart from Jake Sallee - wrote something about Suse (artsd?)
packages being broken, could this be due to some Suse (artsd
or other) RPM's being "bad".

If so, which packages should one download and rebuild,
to get a consistent upgrade to the sound system?

I use a Terratec Aureon Fun 5.1 card, but earlier I had
Creative Live Player 5.1 and if I remember correct, it
did not perform too well either. (Did not try Skype with it, 
though.) There's an integrated sound chip on my PC,
but it is disabled in the BIOS settings. The mic/headphone
set is a good quality Labtec one and should be working just
fine.

Test sound in Control Centre / Sound System works
o.k. but test midi produces no sound whatsoever.
MP3's and Wav's play ok. Alsa mixer looks like the
recording level settings etc. would be as they should.

Thanks for any input, especially for instructions on
getting and rebuilding the relevant RPM's.

 2.6.8-24.11-smp / artsd (whatever it is..) version is 1.3.0

dw / Mike