Re: kde volume control question
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quicktip: mouse wheel on kmix icon also commands the single slider that ypu selected as master. No clicks needed ;) Wow! I have been using KDE for years and never even knew about this awesome tip! Thanks for sharing it! raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kde volume control question
On 07/03/2008 05:02 PM, Kent West wrote: [...] How do I get the volume control in the systray to control the PCM control instead of whatever other control it is presumably controlling? Thanks! The tiny volume control affects the master volume control; however, the master volume is bounded by the PCM volume (for PCM data--whatever that is), so if you turn the master volume up to 100%, but PCM is at 50%, you get 50% volume. The solution would be to set the PCM volume to an acceptably high level, and save the volume state using alsactl store; I think that KDE might have a separate way to manage mixer state persistence, so you may have to investigate that too. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kde volume control question
I have a couple of different machines doing this. Audio works fine, volume control works fine from the mixer, depending on which control I move. However, the systray volume control related to kmix doesn't control the device in kmix which controls the volume. For example, on this machine in front of me, I can be playing some audio, but the little blue KDE volume control down by the clock doesn't affect the volume, but if I click on the word Mixer when that control is open, that will open the mixer window, and I can control the volume by moving the PCM control in the Output tab. If it's easy enough to explain, I'd like to know how a mixer works (what is PCM; what do the green and red lights mean; etc), but that's probably more complicated (and may vary depending on hardware) than is suitable here, so my real question ... How do I get the volume control in the systray to control the PCM control instead of whatever other control it is presumably controlling? Thanks! -- Kent West http://kentwest.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, Understanding mixer is not hard. PCM means Pulse Code Mudulation and you can obtain more information about it from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCM. Basically PCM is the digital coded form of the sound that you here so computer can play with it. Generally PCM is the where all sound signal is combined so it acts like master. The green lights mean active. So if a green light is turned off for a channel, that channel is muted. Similarly red lights in input tab means Recording this channel. You can say kmix to play with which slider in single slider mode (i.e. single click, tray mode or the mode problematic for you). You need the select the PCM since it's the master. Just right-click to the mixer icon and select select master channel and select PCM from the appeared window and select OK. Now your misbehaving slider will control your master out. Quicktip: mouse wheel on kmix icon also commands the single slider that ypu selected as master. No clicks needed ;) Cheers and Regards, Hakan. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kde volume control question
On Thursday 03 July 2008, Kent West wrote: How do I get the volume control in the systray to control the PCM control instead of whatever other control it is presumably controlling? Right click on the speaker .. see the menu ... Select Master Channel . and pick one.The little slider is one of the sliders in the mixer, and you get to pick which one. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kde volume control question
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You need the select the PCM since it's the master. Just right-click to the mixer icon and select select master channel and select PCM from the appeared window and select OK. Now your misbehaving slider will control your master out. Quicktip: mouse wheel on kmix icon also commands the single slider that ypu selected as master. No clicks needed ;) Well that was easy. Wonder why I've never noticed that. Thanks! And the extra tip is nice also. Thanks again! -- Kent West Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kde volume control question
On Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:10:06 -0500 Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Kent, Well that was easy. Wonder why I've never noticed that. Thanks! Because..(see sig) :-) -- Regards _ / ) The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately apparent He looked the wrong way at a policeman I Predict A Riot - Kaiser Chiefs signature.asc Description: PGP signature
kde volume control question
I have a couple of different machines doing this. Audio works fine, volume control works fine from the mixer, depending on which control I move. However, the systray volume control related to kmix doesn't control the device in kmix which controls the volume. For example, on this machine in front of me, I can be playing some audio, but the little blue KDE volume control down by the clock doesn't affect the volume, but if I click on the word Mixer when that control is open, that will open the mixer window, and I can control the volume by moving the PCM control in the Output tab. If it's easy enough to explain, I'd like to know how a mixer works (what is PCM; what do the green and red lights mean; etc), but that's probably more complicated (and may vary depending on hardware) than is suitable here, so my real question ... How do I get the volume control in the systray to control the PCM control instead of whatever other control it is presumably controlling? Thanks! -- Kent West http://kentwest.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
