On 5 June 2010 19:36, C
I'm having some real frustrations with getting sound working right on a computer I support.
This is a Acer laptop running: 11.2, KDE4.4.3 Factory, a Logitech Wireless USB headset. The owner wants all sound to be routed through the headset only - this is all sounds, system sounds, audio from Firefox, Skype, Ekiga etc.
What I did to achieve this - I installed 11.2, then useing YaST, deleted the autodetected onboard sound card and "configured" the USB headset to be the only/primary sound device. Initially, this seems to work. Audio from Firefox for example is routed through the headset as this use wants. Skype is also playing nice with this config, and uses the USB headset.
It's falling down though when Ekiga is brought into the mix. It's complaining that the output audio device is busy and the user cannot hear any sound. Nothing we do seems to sort this out. Ekiga cannot open the audio output device.. which is according to Ekiga the USB Headset. We've tried making sure all apps that use audio are closed down.. so Amarok, Firefox, Skype etc. Then doing a clean start of Ekiga.. still the same error... we've rebooted... nothing seems to let Ekiga open the audio output device.
Anyone here run across this? Any suggestions?
Ekiga is a Gnome app, maybe it expects a pulseaudio-based sound configuration? Have you got pulseaudio enabled? If not, it may be worth trying to enable it. If you're averse to using pulseaudio, there was a recent thread on this list about enabling an alsa dmix device so multiple apps could simultaneously play sound. Perhaps, that will solve your problem. Vadym -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org