Weird sound issues Was: FC 2 : Alsa,Alsa,Alsa

red red at raven.ch
Thu May 20 07:35:19 UTC 2004



red schrieb:
> 
> 
> Guy Fraser schrieb:
> 
>> david walcroft wrote:
>>
>>> I've just put FC2 in, system-config-soundcard works with no problem
>>> but KDE does'nt want to work.It's the same problem I had in Test3 and I
>>> get these two errors,which did'nt happen in Test3
>>>
>>> "Sound server informational message:
>>> Error while initializing the sound driver:
>>> device: default can't be opened for playback (Unknown error)
>>> The sound server will continue, using the null output device."
>>>
>>> "amixer: Unknown playback setup 'on' "
>>> this error appears when running  system-config-soundcard
>>>
>>> my card is an Audigy emuk10,I have not tried other sound sources (xmms)
>>> yet.
>>>
>>>   TIA    david
>>
>>
>>
>> Hmmm
>>
>> I was able to get XMMS to play WAV files after selecting ESD as the 
>> output system, but could not get Gnome to play the WAV sounds. I 
>> switched to KDE and it plays sounds well.
>>
>> Even though I had all the sound levels cranked up the line in level 
>> was not very loud. While trying to get my scanner to work I started 
>> scanimage and the volume jumped up. For what ever reason scanimage 
>> decided to use my video capture card because it couldn't find my scanner.
>>
>> In Gnome the mixer shows way too many volume controls. Many appear to 
>> be duplicates and some don't move. In KDE the mixer seems to show the 
>> correct number of mixer controls and they all seem to work.
>>
>> When i did an lsmod as root, I noticed that the OSS compatibility 
>> module was loaded. The reason I mention it, was I had originally 
>> thought Gnome had been compiled with OSS support rather than ALSA 
>> support. Since the OSS module is loaded it shouldn't matter which one 
>> it was compiled with I would think.
>>
>> The sound on the computer with the problems has an on-board {ASUS-P4PE}
>> SoundMax {ADI198x AC97 codec}. I wonder if it is somehow stuck in 
>> surround sound mode. When I get home tonight I will try hooking the 
>> speakers to the line in and mic jacks to see if it is sending sound to 
>> those ports {that is where the centre/sub and surround outputs are 
>> when in surround mode}.
>>
>>
> 
> ha, found the solution for my sound-problem... i had to try the other 
> jacks... thank you for this hint!
> greets
> red
> 

there is still a problem. when i try to start esd on gnome startup it 
hangs when trying to open the gnome session.
some ideas?
greets
red

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