On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 07:29:13PM +0100, Lucas Moulin wrote: > Hi all, Hi Lucas,
> > I'm using Linux 2.6.0-ben1 but have problems with alsa. I did what I > read on this list, i.e. put a file in /etc/modprobe.d to load the > modules in the correct order, and so on. I've configured alsa-base the > right way, I think. Here are my problems. > > When I plug headphones, the sound's muted, and I have to change the > Master sound level to bring it back. Known problem so far. But if I do > this, then the speakers are turned back on. if you use pbbuttonsd and the (fn)+F4/F5 buttons to adjust volume, then pbbuttonsd adjust both master and speaker volume and thus reactivating the speaker channel. Locate the line reading mixer channels (or similar) in /etc/pbbuttonsd.conf and remove the speaker-part to have pbbuttonsd adjust the master volume only or use alsamixer (or any other mixer for that matter) to adjust master volume only. > Secondly, with this kernel and alsa, the sound's way too powerful if I > set the volume to the max. It wasn't this loud when I used 2.4 kernel or > OS X. I'm afraid I might break my speakers because of this :( On my machine the bass level was way too high after sleep causing ugly sound, if this is what you're experiencing the solution I found might work for you too: I have pbbuttonsd start a small script that - upon resume - uses aumix to restore sound levels _twice_ with intermediate and with desired settings to force the levels to be touched no matter what. With this the bass level is set correctly after resume. > Finally, rhythmbox takes forever to start playing a song with alsa. > Never had this problem with OSS-based 2.4. Have you tried oss-emulation or sdl ? > > BTW, I'm not using any sound server. > > Could these issues be solved ? Should I patch the kernel"s alsa with a > newer one, and if so, how ? Should I just wait and stick with the > previous stable kernel ? Thanks for your help. AFAIK the alsa source that comes with 2.6 is pretty much the same than the source in the alsa-source package testing holds, so switching to 2.4 for alsa would be pointless. If OSS works better for you - it's still in 2.6. > > Cheers. > -- > Lucas Moulin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Joe
