I haven't had reason to do much with sound so far this year, but yesterday someone sent me a reference to a BBC News article... This was a flash video embedded in a web page.
The sound was 'choppy'. I checked out some other sites, Ted, Wired, Brightalk, and the results were the same.
I googled and found some Mozilla pages that mentioned this and recommended regressing to Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202. Well that what I was/am running.
More googling, looked at re-starting pulseaudio, looked at changing the phonon back-end.
All I've succeeded in doing is loosing sound altogether! I can't play recorded music (CDs or MP3s), make recording from my microphone, use Skype, listen to Ted or podcasts. Not that I could when the sound was choppy, but at least I had sound.
I looked at how sound was supposed to start under systemd and that just got me more confused.
Now I'm hopelessly lost and don't know what to try next. You don't mention which version of oS you are using nor which audio
On 13/01/13 03:09, Anton Aylward wrote: source (onboard audio chip or a PCI/E audio card -- and which one did you make active in your BIOS?). Nevertheless, bear in mind that - seeing as you mentioned pulseaudio above - pulseaudio sits on top of alsa which means that you need to get your sound card first configured using alsamixer before pulseaudio will behave. Also note that pulseaudio, at least in the past, did not allow alsamixer to display all the available channels of your card and I used to either uninstall pulseaudio or disable it (and I still do this - I have no need for pulseaudio) to be able to configure the channels. (Make sure you select the correct sound source in alsamixer - F6 I think is the key.) And if you decide to stay with pulseaudio then install pavucontrol to be able to configure pulseaudio. BC -- Using openSUSE 12.2 x86_64 KDE 4.10.0 & kernel 3.7.1-2 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel Corsair "Vengeance" RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX550Ti 1GB DDR5 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org