Weired sound with Suse 9.0 and KDE control center
Hi, ... Actually, it is not the sound that is weired, but the way how I have to activate my sound. When I log in with KDM I have the normal system sounds. However, if I want to start another sound application, like the ALSA player or XMMS, I don't get any sound output. Starting the ALSA player turns my mouse pointer in the hour glass for several seconds, like when the application is started, and then nothing happens. Starting XMMS works fine, but when I want to play a song, I get the error message, that the sound driver is not accessible. The weired thing now is, that if I start the KDE control center, go to the sound configuration and press the 'apply' button, without actually changing anything, suddenly the ALSA player pops up and starts playing, and the XMMS plays now as well. Can anybody give me a hint what is going on with my computer? It looks to me something is hogging the sound driver, but why does it get released after 'applying' the control center configuration? BTW, I have a Micro-Star motherboard with on board 82801DB AC'97 Audio Controller. Thanks for the help. Guenter
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BTW, I have a Micro-Star motherboard with on board 82801DB AC'97 Audio Controller.
I'm not certain if you said what Suse version you have but... ( been on the road and it's not easy to follow specific threads that way) For a while I used the onboard chip w/ this computer and occassionally had that same problem it was as if it "forgot" what the sound card drivers where or where they were. First I must ask if you set the card up in yast or in the install , did you go to the "yast2 modules" or settings as they were sometimes called and set your card/chip up there? Under the hardware settings the sound chip has to be setup there first, or you will never get it to remember... Then, depending on your version of Suse, you should be certain you have all the updates applied... and THEN .. go to "packman" ( bookmark this like you will hear it a lot in future on this list and others ) www.links2linux.org ( select the german or English flag to change language settings as needed ) The packman section is where all the stuff you will ever need for multimedia is or will be once the guys have time to get it up <G> They do amazing jobs there , since it is not a paid site and the code is contributed ...( You can bookmark the page where the packman files are if you want to , but it's also fun to see what else they are doing) Packman is where you find the lastest and greatest stuff for most of the the less business oriented libraries, programs, and updates to multimedia, games and a whole lot else ... Hope it helps -- j -- nemo me impune lacessit
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