Hi all, I wonder if anyone can help with my current problems. My main box is currently running SuSE9.3 and up until recently the only time I wanted it to make noises, amarok, xmms and xine were all I needed and worked quite well.
Recently I've wanted to get started using other stuff but....I can't get anything else to work! I thought it was setup to run ALSA, if I start up in runlevel 3 speaker-test works OK. If I start up in 5 and login to a KDE desktop, amarok works (but it always starts up artsd which runs at s illy priority and eats all my CPU). If I kill off artsd, I get noises from speaker-test. I'm trying to rosegarden working (a Midi Sequencer) and it is configured to talk to Alsa. If artsd is running when it starts, it seems happy enough - but no sound. If I start it with artsd NOT running, it complains "No soundcard available or sound support not configured yet...". Seems to start up something called jackd (not a balding comedian from london). KMid never complains - and looks as if it is playing my midi files regardless of whether artsd is running or not. Doesn't make any noise though. It says its using alsa. Running QAmix when XMMS or Amarok are blasting, the volume controls don't have any effect, but the PCM mute turns off the sound (but master mute doesn't). Anybody got a clue what's going on here? Or better, how I should fix it? (BTW its a crappy onboard sound chipset it's only described as 'Onboard 5.1 Channel, AC97 Audio Codec' but it only provides line in / line out / mic connectors) TIA, Colin _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish