On 8/7/2011 11:22 PM, Peter Nikolic wrote:
On Monday 08 August 2011 04:26:04 John Andersen wrote:
On 8/5/2011 4:20 AM, John Bennett wrote:
Anyone having an issue recently (~last week..) where the kmix widget in the task bar in kde (V4.6.00) locks up - can't change volume with multimedia keys, or mute etc. Think there may have been a recent update...? It does seem to react visually, but nothing happens.
Thanks, John.
Yup. Its usually not Kmix that went AWOL, it turned out to be the sound system in my case. I had to go thru Yast again and re-setup the sound system all over again.
Linux sound is getting flakier and flakier of late. Especially with intel sound chips.
Yes and the sound quailty is going west , i am thinking of chnaging the mother board in this box because it does not have enough PCI slots to allow me to use my SB sound card and the builtin Intel one is as noisey as hell
Pete .
Thing is, it didn't use to be this way. I've been using the same equipment for several years now (I think I started with OpenSuse 9.2 on this particular laptop) and the sound has gotten worse with each new release. The current version does not expose all of the channels the sound chip supports, no base/treble controls, no ability to control PCM separate from digital audio or even show the other channels in Kmix, and it lets the center woofer speaker in the bottom of the lap top run wild, uncontrolled by any volume sliders. So its shedding capability AND sounding worse with each new version. The intel/sigmatel sound chip is NOT THAT BAD of a chipset. Any noise you hear was probably software induced. Prior versions of the linux sound system worked just fine, sounding every bit as good as the Windows sound system that the laptop came with. I still have a Windows XP drive for this machine sitting on the shelf and when i swap that in and play some music the difference is astounding. Now the sound system is a huge "Just So" story, where yast seems to figure it out (most of the time), as long as you install all of the stuff it wants, including pulse audio, phonon, and all his ugly friends, OR you manually install only exactly what you want, and tell Yast hands off. But every tweek you do puts the whole thing at risk. Its a house of cards right now. I admit I haven't been keeping up with developments in this area and I don't fully understand all the new pieces and where they fit in. Phonon? Pulse? Alsa? GStreamer Backend ? Xine Backend (Really? load A video player for sound output?!?!!) -- _____________________________________ ---This space for rent--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org