On 13/02/12 18:35, C wrote:
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 02:26, Basil Chupin<blchupin@iinet.net.au> wrote:
In the end... things got so mixed up and messed up that we opted to do a complete re-install again... tomorrow sometime.
Perhaps I am misunderstanding or maybe I have been unclear.
Pulse will not work on its own - it needs to have alsa installed, and alsa is installed when you install openSUSE. Right, agreed. What I meant to say was we disabled/removed PulseAudio and went with 100% alsa. That failed miserably. Not only did the audio out not work, but the microphone which was working stopped.
However, to get pulse to work properly you need to install pavucontrol which controls whatever audio devices you have: audio card or chip, microphone, whatever.
But pavucontrol requires that you first set the audio device by installing alsamixer[#]. When you run alsamixer you need to begin by selecting the audio device with the F6 key (and then select/unmute/mute the appropriate channels). Once the correct audio device is selected pavucontrol will then be able to "see" it and configure it. Did that. Pulled up alsamixer (cli version, I never use the gui version for this stuff). None of the audio channels were muted. All were maximized.
Which just may be part of the problem - having all the channels unmuted :-( . I suggest that you start a device which would produce a sound thru whatever device you want (you mentioned the mic output below) and then go thru each channel and mute it (ie switch it off) and see which one needs to be turned off to make your mic, in this case, work. With my external SoundBlaster card I have to switch off one particular channel otherwise I get no sound. I suspect the same is happening in your case. It's a matter of playing around with the channels I am afraid :-( . BC -- Aspire to inspire before you expire. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org