On Wednesday 01 December 2004 4:54 am, Steve Dowe wrote:
Hi folks,
One of those tricks is to covertly reduce my sound mixer volume. Sometimes it's just PCM volume that goes from around 80 (my usual setting) to 29. Sometimes it's that and the Master volume (both to 29). I will reset the volume(s) to 80 through KMix (or Kamix), and then about 45 minutes later, cannot hear sounds for system notifications, for instance. Back to the mixer, change again... ad infinitum.
I read the previous thread ("Sound Problem") and, thinking this might be a similar issue, followed advice in there (including following the steps here: http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi?/en/2004/05/thallma_ 91_sndsilence.html). Sadly, the problem still remains. Whilst my dear friend SUSE 9.2 is very close to me, its humour is becoming slightly irksome :)
One thought I have is to stop alsa, set /etc/asound.state manually and changing it to read-only for root user, group and world, and then seeing if it sticks. But this seems, at best, a kludge... I'm afraid the sound system(s) in linux are not my strong point.
Any suggestions gratefully received.
Thanks, Steve
Try using alsamixergui instead of Kmix/Kamix. I have better luck with it setting and keeping volumes. This has worked whether Kmix/KAmix were running or not on my system. This is over SUSE 8.1 or 8.2 through 9.1 and KDE up to and including 3.3.1. The solution you reference never worked for me but has worked for others on the list. Using YaST, Hardware, Sound Card, Volume Settings would work until a reboot on my system. Alsamixergui seems to be able to set my sound volumes and keep them. I just did a fresh install of SUSE 9.2 Pro with the base KDE 3.3.0 and my volumes have stayed perfect so far. This is new behavior and a welcome change on my system. Stan