Thanks, I hadn't seen that page, but it doesn't tell me HOW. Why does YaST show two sound Card Models and how do I know which one is correct (assuming only one is?)? And why do neither produce any noise when I press Test? I'll try to use the info Felix provided to see if I get any further. I don't know if this will help or not, but I was able to get a test sound to play using the YaST2 sound module. I selected the correct card, which is the one integrated on the motherboard. I went down to "Other" and selected "Set as the Primary Card". The other listing in there
On 10/18/2016 11:46 PM, Dave Howorth wrote: pertains to the HDMI port on the video card. Next I clicked on the "Other" button again and clicked on Volume, having the correct device selected in the Card model view. I wasn't able to hear a test sound until both the PCM and Master sliders were up. The graphical representation of the volume slider in YaST2 sound is not equal to the one in KDE. Meaning I had to turn them both way up to 100% to get the level in kmix to about 5%. Other times I tested it, 100% slider in YaST2 sound was some other random value in KDE. It appears buggy, or if that directly controls alsamixer, the levels in alsamixer get off kilter with those of PulseAudio. And then there's Phonon on top of that, and even another application layer on top of that for KDE applications. Altogether it's too many layers, and nobody working on Linux seems to really care about fixing the problem, and the most all of the financial backing for all things Linux doesn't go into improving the desktop experience. Maybe one day someone will tear the audio system out of android and use that for the linux desktop. That appears to be a better option to fix sound on the Linux desktop, rather than to keep tweaking all 10 layers trying to make them all work together. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org