[opensuse] Sound system frustrations in 11.2 and KDE4
I'm having some real frustrations with getting sound working right on a computer I support. This is a Acer laptop running: 11.2, KDE4.4.3 Factory, a Logitech Wireless USB headset. The owner wants all sound to be routed through the headset only - this is all sounds, system sounds, audio from Firefox, Skype, Ekiga etc. What I did to achieve this - I installed 11.2, then useing YaST, deleted the autodetected onboard sound card and "configured" the USB headset to be the only/primary sound device. Initially, this seems to work. Audio from Firefox for example is routed through the headset as this use wants. Skype is also playing nice with this config, and uses the USB headset. It's falling down though when Ekiga is brought into the mix. It's complaining that the output audio device is busy and the user cannot hear any sound. Nothing we do seems to sort this out. Ekiga cannot open the audio output device.. which is according to Ekiga the USB Headset. We've tried making sure all apps that use audio are closed down.. so Amarok, Firefox, Skype etc. Then doing a clean start of Ekiga.. still the same error... we've rebooted... nothing seems to let Ekiga open the audio output device. Anyone here run across this? Any suggestions? C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 5 June 2010 19:36, C
I'm having some real frustrations with getting sound working right on a computer I support.
This is a Acer laptop running: 11.2, KDE4.4.3 Factory, a Logitech Wireless USB headset. The owner wants all sound to be routed through the headset only - this is all sounds, system sounds, audio from Firefox, Skype, Ekiga etc.
What I did to achieve this - I installed 11.2, then useing YaST, deleted the autodetected onboard sound card and "configured" the USB headset to be the only/primary sound device. Initially, this seems to work. Audio from Firefox for example is routed through the headset as this use wants. Skype is also playing nice with this config, and uses the USB headset.
It's falling down though when Ekiga is brought into the mix. It's complaining that the output audio device is busy and the user cannot hear any sound. Nothing we do seems to sort this out. Ekiga cannot open the audio output device.. which is according to Ekiga the USB Headset. We've tried making sure all apps that use audio are closed down.. so Amarok, Firefox, Skype etc. Then doing a clean start of Ekiga.. still the same error... we've rebooted... nothing seems to let Ekiga open the audio output device.
Anyone here run across this? Any suggestions?
Ekiga is a Gnome app, maybe it expects a pulseaudio-based sound configuration? Have you got pulseaudio enabled? If not, it may be worth trying to enable it. If you're averse to using pulseaudio, there was a recent thread on this list about enabling an alsa dmix device so multiple apps could simultaneously play sound. Perhaps, that will solve your problem. Vadym -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 14:34, Vadym Krevs wrote:
Ekiga is a Gnome app, maybe it expects a pulseaudio-based sound configuration? Have you got pulseaudio enabled? If not, it may be worth trying to enable it.
No, no PulseAudio enabled. This computer recently had a harddrive failure, and I installed a new drive and reinstalled. Somehow in the past I got Ekiga to play nice with Skype and Firefox in KDE4, but no real idea how i did it... and no way to dissect the old dead HD to find out either. I did not use PulseAudio then.... I tried Pulse at some point, but it turned into a major sound disaster as I attempted to convince it to route all sound to teh USB headset. BTW, I'd love to find a good quality VoIP app for KDE4 that is on par wit Ekiga... any suggestions?
If you're averse to using pulseaudio, there was a recent thread on this list about enabling an alsa dmix device so multiple apps could simultaneously play sound. Perhaps, that will solve your problem.
I've been following the other sound thread... I'll try out the suggestions given there when i can get access to the computer again. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sat, 5 Jun 2010 20:36:03 +0200, C
It's falling down though when Ekiga is brought into the mix. It's complaining that the output audio device is busy and the user cannot hear any sound.
When multiple audio sources want to output in parallel the sound must be multiplexed. This can either be done in hardware (soundblaster is one example for that) or in software. See if you have dmix running. Dmix is the alsa software mixer and should be used if the hardware can't do the multimlexing by itself. But I'd strongly recommend that you ask on the opensuse-multimedia list as the possibility of getting help for questions like this is significantly higher than here. Philipp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 6 June 2010 17:16, Philipp Thomas
But I'd strongly recommend that you ask on the opensuse-multimedia list as the possibility of getting help for questions like this is significantly higher than here.
Hmm, opensuse-multimedia does not appear to be a popular place to ask questions, to put it mildly. And if you search this list, you will find that quite a few questions regarding sound got successfully resolved here. Regards, Vadym -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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