Sound lost when KDE is installed (FC2)

Ed Wilts ewilts at ewilts.org
Wed Nov 24 20:16:10 UTC 2004


On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 08:58:12PM +0100, Peter Zubaj wrote:
> OSS mixer api is so simple and usable only for simple soundcards,  
> that for all other things you have to write special app (for exaple  
> switching analog/digital mode on Audigy) for every soundcard - if  
> you have time, then you should start.  
>   
> Most of problems are problems with mixer (mayby 95 %). From these  
> mixer problems are 90 % caused by buggy mixer app and 10 % by human.     

The problem that some people are seeing is that soundcard is correctly
discovered and tested during the install phase.  It's not until later
that you realize you suddenly lost the sound.  So...it's the default
configuration following an install that's got it wrong.  It would be
nice, perhaps, if Red Hat could provide an update to
system-config-soundcards that resets the mixer configuration to
something usable like it did during the install.  How that's done, I
don't know...

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Ed Wilts, RHCE
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