Nobody's responded to this so I thought I'd repost. I am definitely not getting the performance I expect from my sound card. How do I know? Because my machine is dual boot with XP and in XP the sound is loud and clear. The sound in Linux, even with my tweak below is low and hissy ( like it's not putting out enough volume, so the background noise is emphasized ). This is really frustrating because this is the THIRD sound card I'm using. 1) The built in VIA chipset never worked with Suse. 2) I bought a SB Pro 24-bit live and they never wrote the full drivers because SB did not release the specs. 3) Now I bought a card that based on the Suse hardware database that was rated as being FULLY supported and there are still problems. On Wednesday 18 May 2005 00:22, John Bailo wrote:
I just added a C-Media C8738-MC6 audio card.
For a long time the sound volume was very, very low and I had to run my speaker volume way up to hear it.
Then I started playing with audio settings. I opened up K-Mix...for each slider there are green lights at the top and red lights at the bottom.
I have no idea what they mean but when I clicked on the red light at the bottom of the PCM slider, suddenly the volume turned up to a normal, clear level. However, if I use the slider on RealPlayer, the volume goes back down...until I click the red light again. It doesn't seem to matter if I click it on or off, it just makes the sound normal.
Questions:
What are these green and red lights?
Is there some way or some other setting I can change to make the normal sound volume 'stick' ?