[SLUG] SUSE installation sound problems

[john at johnallsopp.co.uk]

Thanks Steve

Before I answer your questions, I just noticed that the DVD drive is
connected to the sound card (I did that, it was connected to the
motherboard) by an analogue cable. So I'm asking the DVD drive to do
the DAC work, whereas I'd say I'd be better off asking the soundcard
to do that, so I'm going to look into that.

Gnome

Yast, under Hardware, has Sound which recognises the SB0410 SBLive 24
bit card (previously it didn't recognise the on-board sound so I had
nothing to play with).

I have add, edit, delete and other. Under other there's the sequencer
and volume, so I've knocked off the sequencer (apparently that's for
Midi), and under volume I have:

Master volume:
Analog Centre FE, 0
Analog Front 98
Test, which provides a nice bit of orchestra.

Then there are other channels:

Analog rear
Analog side
Capture feedback inl
SPDIF Centre LFE
SPDIF Front
SPDIF Rear
SPDIF Unknown

The centre one's set to 78, the rest 0. I've played with these
settings and nothing except analog front seemed to make any difference

I have seen mention of Alsa in the system which started to make me
think it was there. I haven't installed it tho.

I did use the different output modules. Banshee was using Helix, I
changed to GStreamer, same thing.

Incidentally, Banshee doesn't play nice. It requires a Force Quit to
close it, even if I eject the disc from within that software.

Thanks for your help

Cheers
J

> john at johnallsopp.co.uk wrote:
>> No, not yet. I did look around it for an mp3, I'll have another go.
>
> Can you re-explain the intermittent symptoms - do I understand it
> right
> that you get a half second of sound followed by a second of silence
> etc?
>
> Does the silence replace that half second of expected sound? Or is it
> as
> though paused for a half second and then restarted?
>
> This does sound like a buffering problem if you have some sound at
> all... You're using SUSE, are you using KDE or gnome?
>
> What sort of options are you presented with in Yast for configuring
> sound? I seem to recall that it has a 'play test sound' button - does
> it, and what does that do?
>
> In Amarok (a KDE music player) there is an options menu for choosing
> your output module and doing some configuration stuff relating to how
> Amarok uses it - perhaps play in there too.
>
> You say you're using Gstreamer... that's what I'd use, I notice you
> didn't have Alsa in the list... perhaps that's not used nowadays, but
> I
> thought that was still around - either way, try any other output
> modules
> you have.
>
> I think that's it for ideas for now - bon courage!
>
> Steve O
>
>
>
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