Will Stephenson wrote:
On Saturday 05 Feb 2011 01:44:13 Donn Washburn wrote:
Hey Group;
Another "fails to work" is Yast2>Hardware>Sound is that setting for Pulseaudio turned on as default. It kept Amarok, Firefox and Kmix from working.
More details, please. PulseAudio is on by default in KDE installs for 11.4.
* what does 'not working' mean? * what Firefox sound failed to work? From a Flash site? * Does the test sound in YaST2->Hardware->Sound work? * what phonon backend are you using? The default is GStreamer * what mixers does kmix show? something like "Internal Audio Analog Stereo" or the old style "Master", "Rear", etc? * did sound start working after you disabled PulseAudio? * what sound hardware do you have?
I am running a fresh M6 install here with KDE 4.6.0 pulled from K:D:F. Motherboard is a Gigabyte MA790GPT-UD3H which utilizes the Realtek ALC889A codec. I do not wish to lose the equalizer support in Amarok so I select the phonon-xine backend. Upon noticing the symptom I get from PulseAudio I immediately went in and turned it off. What happens for me is that when I may be listening to an MP3 stream in Amarok and a notification sound event occurs there is a loud click (also known as a "spitch") right at the beginning of the sound notification. It is just much too annoying to put up with. Previously, while still running 11.3 I had problems with audio in Virtualbox. Upon starting a VM vbox would pop up some error screens indicating failure and when the VM was up and running there would be no audio from it. Disable PulseAudio and no more problem. I like the concept contained within PulseAudio. But until it works at least as well (and hopefully better) than what it replaces I won't use it. I have tried on and off over several iterations (11.2, 11.3, 11.4) and it has always been a problem. Without it all my audio works as it should. -Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org