[opensuse] Setting up sound..
Wow I gotta say setting up sound under SuSE11.2, KDE4.4.1 for my media center has NOT been fun! Some thought needs to be given to a better organization of the tools, setups, and initialization IMHO!.... I have a Creative Labs Audigy 4 Pro sound card. Upon installing SuSE11.2 I had no sound. I tried to follow the procedures in the SuSE online help wiki for tracking down the sound problem and that turned out to be a big red herring of trying to find missing codecs.. None were missing. So I went back to YaST, tried to remove and reinstall the sound device and still no joy. Next tried alsaconf and that tool crashes SuSE/KDE and locks up my system hard. Backgrounds go black, all tool bars, activities and plasma applets disappear, and only windows which were open at the time remain active.. Only remedy is to reboot. Brought up KMix, another "wonderfully" undocumented tool and after another few hours of puzzling I finally discover that KMix hides a whole LOT of controls for my sound card, which need to be selected and turned visible first, and buried in one of these invisible controls was an associated mute checkbox that defaulted with the mute turned on!!! (I discovered a number of other controls in a similar state!) So for me this was an ugly mess and one in which other users will NOT find easily discoverable solutions for similar sound systems... I don't want to report a bug without first checking with the gurus. It certainly seems wrong that alsaconf should crash and lock up my system like it does. Do others have similar troubles or is this something associated with my particular sound card? And why is KMix hiding many of the sound controls and setting mute controls to default on? That too seems certainly wrong in my opinion! What happened to the old KDE3.5 sound control GUI for ALSA? I could not find it anywhere... Marc..
On 18/03/10 02:10, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
Wow I gotta say setting up sound under SuSE11.2, KDE4.4.1 for my media center has NOT been fun! Some thought needs to be given to a better organization of the tools, setups, and initialization IMHO!.... I have a Creative Labs Audigy 4 Pro sound card. Upon installing SuSE11.2 I had no sound. I tried to follow the procedures in the SuSE online help wiki for tracking down the sound problem and that turned out to be a big red herring of trying to find missing codecs.. None were missing. So I went back to YaST, tried to remove and reinstall the sound device and still no joy. Next tried alsaconf and that tool crashes SuSE/KDE and locks up my system hard. Backgrounds go black, all tool bars, activities and plasma applets disappear, and only windows which were open at the time remain active.. Only remedy is to reboot. Alsaconf when starting will shut down any other applications using alsa. It sounds like it has killed plasma and kwin rather than crashed the whole system (though why I don't know, it doesn't do this on my system). If you have a terminal open (or if krunner Alt-F2 is still working) try restarting kwin and plasma-desktop. Brought up KMix, another "wonderfully" undocumented tool and after another few hours of puzzling I finally discover that KMix hides a whole LOT of controls for my sound card, which need to be selected and turned visible first, and buried in one of these invisible controls was an associated mute checkbox that defaulted with the mute turned on!!! (I discovered a number of other controls in a similar state!) So for me this was an ugly mess and one in which other users will NOT find easily discoverable solutions for similar sound systems...
I don't want to report a bug without first checking with the gurus. It certainly seems wrong that alsaconf should crash and lock up my system like it does. Do others have similar troubles or is this something associated with my particular sound card? And why is KMix hiding many of the sound controls and setting mute controls to default on? That too seems certainly wrong in my opinion! What happened to the old KDE3.5 sound control GUI for ALSA? I could not find it anywhere... If you've got issues with the alsa defaults for your sound card, I'd take it up with the alsa devs. As for KMix hiding controls, I don't know where those settings come from - alsa or KDE. As for the old GUI, KDE is now independent of alsa - there is a layer called phonon that is between KDE and whatever sound system you choose (alsa/pulseaudio), and so KDE doesn't configure them directly anymore. The configuration of which devices/backends to use is in System Settings -> Multimedia.
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On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 19:10 -0700, Marc Chamberlin wrote: <>
card, which need to be selected and turned visible first, and buried in one of these invisible controls was an associated mute checkbox that defaulted with the mute turned on!!! (I discovered a number of other controls in a similar state!) So for me this was an ugly mess and one in which other users will NOT find easily discoverable solutions for similar sound systems...
I don't want to report a bug without first checking with the gurus. It certainly seems wrong that alsaconf should crash and lock up my system like it does. Do others have similar troubles or is this something associated with my particular sound card? And why is KMix hiding many of the sound controls and setting mute controls to default on? That too seems certainly wrong in my opinion! What happened to the old KDE3.5 sound control GUI for ALSA? I could not find it anywhere...
Well, i found that my son's PC was muted after each reboot.... What i did is from after.local: #!/bin/bash # amixer sset Master 80% on amixer sset Front 70% on Not realy nice, but it works for me... hw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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Tejas Guruswamy