Re: [Dorset] Sound issues
On 05/02/17 11:55, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Tim, Up until recently the sound output on my PC has been ok but something has now changed I know little about audio under Linux, but does your package manager log every install and update so you can look to see what changed between "it was definitely working then" and "first noticed it broken yesterday"? That might give a clue, or help Googling for recent activity by others with the same problem. It's also possible you installed the breakage a while ago, but only rebooted so it took effect recently. Cheers, Ralph. I have had a look on google, but I can't even tell if I my sound is running under Alsa, Pulse both or neither. My suspicion as I stated in my reply Patrick is it is a Firefox issue. I think I may do a complete reinstall of SolydXK, the XFCE EE variant (EE being the testing version) once current testing becomes stable (which is only several weeks away). Tim -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2017-02-07 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK IF YOU'RE REPLYING Reporting bugs well: http://goo.gl/4Xue / TO THE LIST OR THE AUTHOR
Re: [Dorset] Sound issues
On 04/02/17 23:57, Patrick Wigmore wrote: On Saturday, 4 February 2017, at 23:24:23 GMT, Tim wrote: ...very bassey, very distorted. If I play a CD\mp3 through Clementine then with the use of the inbuilt equaliser the output is ok. This makes me wonder whether your sound hardware is being treated as surround sound hardware, and the audio jack you are using has been incorrectly mapped to the subwoofer channel. If you are using PulseAudio, It might be worth checking what profile your sound card is set to, using pavucontrol, the KDE multimedia settings, or something like: pacmd info | grep -B50 "active profile" (Sorry, I don't know the equivalent for plain old ALSA.) I could be barking up the wrong tree though. The Speaker system is two small satellite speakers and a subwoofer The play back using Clementine etc. is correct no issue what so ever. While I hate to say it this is starting to look more like a FireFox browser issue again, not so long ago I have the sound issue with video audio running in the background when the said video was not the focus on the page. I made a new profile when I had that issue so I doubt it will be a Firefox Profile issue again I tried the pacmd info | grep -B50 "active profile" All I get is Daemon not Responding The "Active Profile" bit, not sure if you meant it as it is written or as the users logged in, tried both but respond was the same. Tim -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2017-02-07 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK IF YOU'RE REPLYING Reporting bugs well: http://goo.gl/4Xue / TO THE LIST OR THE AUTHOR
Re: [Dorset] Sound issues
Hi Tim, > Up until recently the sound output on my PC has been ok but something > has now changed I know little about audio under Linux, but does your package manager log every install and update so you can look to see what changed between "it was definitely working then" and "first noticed it broken yesterday"? That might give a clue, or help Googling for recent activity by others with the same problem. It's also possible you installed the breakage a while ago, but only rebooted so it took effect recently. Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2017-02-07 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK IF YOU'RE REPLYING Reporting bugs well: http://goo.gl/4Xue / TO THE LIST OR THE AUTHOR
Re: [Dorset] Sound issues
On Saturday, 4 February 2017, at 23:24:23 GMT, Tim wrote: > ...very bassey, very distorted. If I play a CD\mp3 through > Clementine then with the use of the inbuilt equaliser the > output is ok. This makes me wonder whether your sound hardware is being treated as surround sound hardware, and the audio jack you are using has been incorrectly mapped to the subwoofer channel. If you are using PulseAudio, It might be worth checking what profile your sound card is set to, using pavucontrol, the KDE multimedia settings, or something like: pacmd info | grep -B50 "active profile" (Sorry, I don't know the equivalent for plain old ALSA.) I could be barking up the wrong tree though. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2017-02-07 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK IF YOU'RE REPLYING Reporting bugs well: http://goo.gl/4Xue / TO THE LIST OR THE AUTHOR
[Dorset] Sound issues
Up until recently the sound output on my PC has been ok but something has now changed and now any music played through anything other than something like Clementine is awful, very bassey, very distorted. If I play a CD\mp3 through Clementine then with the use of the inbuilt equaliser the output is ok. But play back from a video or music clips played in a web browser for example it is awful. The other thing is there does not seem to be any play back control of the volume, one song will be played back at an acceptable level, the next song played will blow your ear drums out, then the next song you will have to turn the volume up Using (Clementine volume is OK). I can turn the volume up and down as required but I have never had to do it on a per song basis. I normally use Firefox as my Browser of choice which is currently v51.0.1 My audio hardware is as follows |mit@lunar1 ~ $ inxi -A Audio: Card Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.8.0-2-amd64| |I am running SolydX EE which is a derivative of Debian Testing using the 4.8.0.2 kernel (I can't use the 4.9. kernel as my PC will lock up solid). | | | |Tim | -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2017-02-07 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK IF YOU'RE REPLYING Reporting bugs well: http://goo.gl/4Xue / TO THE LIST OR THE AUTHOR
