On 05/14/15 13:35, Alexandre Ratchov wrote:
On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 06:20:07AM -0500, Stan Gammons wrote:
Ok. Let's start over. When the system starts it doesn't automatically start
KDE. When I login I'm able to get the sound to play noise with cat
/dev/urandom > /dev/audio. Audioctl and mixerctl both display the various
settings when I run them. When I run startkde4, the sound icon is in the
lower right on the screen, the volume control slider is present and the
notification sounds play. But, there is no audio device shown in kmix and
when I click on the drop down to select the audio device, it's empty. As I
said before, I don't have this problem with FreeBSD. So, if the azalia
driver is the same, why do I have this problem on OpenBSD?
FWIW, neither the azalia driver, nor the audio API are the same in
freebsd and openbsd. If openbsd native tools work, but kmix
doesn't, most probably openbsd-specific bits in kmix are incomplete
(kmix itself or whatever audio framework it uses).
If you don't have multiple audio cards and you don't need to switch
between them, you don't have to worry, just ignore kmix. Audio is
supposed to somewhat work by default in audio programs fully ported
to openbsd.
Ignore kmix? You're kidding, right? I need to be able to just the
microphone input level, so I need a mixer. I guess one could adjust it
manually with mixerctl. Thanks, but no thanks.
Stan
