On 10/10/13 03:07, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
Hi - I just installed openSuSE 12.3 x64 on an ASUS G75V series laptop and ran into a quirk with the KDE mixer (KDE Version 4.10.5 "release 1") that I suspect is a simple oops on somebodies part. This laptop does have two stereo speakers. When I bring up the KDE mixer dialog window, click on Settings -> Audio Setup, that brings up the Phonon - KDE Control Module dialog window. From here I select my sound card and set the profile to "Analog Stereo Output" Then if I click on the test buttons for the "Front Left" and "Front Right" the "Front Left" works fine but the "Front Right" also comes out on the Front Left speaker as well. BTW this DID work fine under openSuSE12.2 so I suspect something broke in this release.
Now for a bit of further quirkiness.... For grins I also tried the "Analog Surround 4.0 Output" profile. This time both the Front Left and the Front Right test buttons produced sound on the correct speaker, but both the Rear Left and Rear Right test buttons produce sound on the Front Left speaker and at a much higher volume level than the sound produced by the Front Left and Front Right test buttons.
I kinda suspect this is a simple problem to solve and somebody dropped the ball on testing this software code. Any ideas on how to get my KDE mixer to behave properly? Thanks in advance...
Marc..
You have "started off with the wrong foot", so to speak :-) . The sound works using Alsa so you have to first configure Alsa. but do this you need to disable pulseaudio - and to do that: run YaST>Sound>Other> and disable Pulseaudio - but before doing this first chose which sound card/chip is to be used as the default sound device. BTW,if you have a sound chop on your mobo as well as a sound PCIe card, decide which one you are going to use if you going to use the sound card then disable the chip in the BIOS. While you are in YaST>Sound>Other test for sound. Once you have done the above, open a terminal/console and run (as user) alsamixer. Use F6 to select your sound device; use F5 to see all the available channels; activate/deactivate the channels to give you sound from your speakers (here it pays to have something producing sound - like a CD or DVD - so that you can judge if you are getting sound). Now that you have sound you can fiddle with KDE mixer if you want - but I wouldn't. You can even reactivate pulseaudio (in YaST) if you want, if you really need it that is, and install pavucontrol (not installed by default) to be able to have control over pulseaudio. BC -- "If you read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking." - Haruki Murakami -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org