On Wednesday 24 May 2006 14:42, Witold Wolski wrote:
Any further hints, which would allow me to pin the problem down would be highly appreciated. I really would like to use suse because many other options seem to work fine.
Hi Eryk, I know you're probably sick of reading all the threads on this topic in the SLE archives, but I'm sure if you continue to dig and test you'll eventually find a solution. It might help speed things up if you search for people who've posted questions and/or solutions discussing your specific brand of hardware. I know that helped me a lot. Unfortunately, there just isn't a single "magic bullet" solution since everybody's hardware is different. And also make sure you check the functionality of every mixer, including QAmix, while no other mixers are running, either in the foreground or in the background. (Try 'ps ax | grep mix' in a shell to see if any other mixers are running.) In my case, alsamixer did not work 100% although I could adjust some of the levels. It took quite a while to experiment and narrow it down, but I eventually discovered QAmix was correctly "hooked" into my sound chip, meaning it provides control over all the functions I need... mic level & mute, mixer out level & mute, master volume level & mute, line-in level & mute, and so on. None of the other mixers that I tried works the same way. So please search the web (Google for 'Linux sound' and your hardware) as well as the SLE archives for your motherboard/chipset/soundcard and see if a solution hasn't already been published. hth & regards, Carl