Sorry, I forgot to add that I had similar problems with KDE on fedora, which I only solved after much trial and error, and unfortunately I don't quite remember how, too many options.
Craig > 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 [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
