[Scottish] sounds blues

[Bell, Craig]

Sorry,

I forgot to add that I had similar problems with KDE on fedora, which I
only solved after much trial and error, and unfortunately I don't quite
remember how, too many options.

Craig

> Hi all,
>
> I wonder if anyone can help with my current problems. My main box is
> currently
> running SuSE9.3 and up until recently the only time I wanted it to make
> noises, amarok, xmms and xine were all I needed and worked quite well.
>
> Recently I've wanted to get started using other stuff but....I can't get
> anything else to work!
>
> I thought it was setup to run ALSA, if I start up in runlevel 3
> speaker-test
> works OK.
>
> If I start up in 5 and login to a KDE desktop, amarok works (but it always
> starts up artsd which runs at s illy priority and eats all my CPU). If I
> kill
> off artsd, I get noises from speaker-test.
>
> I'm trying to rosegarden working (a Midi Sequencer) and it is configured
> to
> talk to Alsa. If artsd is running when it starts, it seems happy enough -
> but
> no sound. If I start it with artsd NOT running, it complains "No soundcard
> available or sound support not configured yet...". Seems to start up
> something called jackd (not a balding comedian from london).
>
> KMid never complains - and looks as if it is playing my midi files
> regardless
> of whether artsd is running or not. Doesn't make any noise though. It says
> its using alsa.
>
> Running QAmix when XMMS or Amarok are blasting, the volume controls don't
> have
> any effect, but the PCM mute turns off the sound (but master mute
> doesn't).
>
> Anybody got a clue what's going on here? Or better, how I should fix it?
>
> (BTW its a crappy onboard sound chipset it's only described as 'Onboard
> 5.1
> Channel, AC97 Audio Codec' but it only provides line in / line out / mic
> connectors)
>
> TIA,
>
> Colin