On Friday 11 March 2011 17:24:22 Anne Wilson wrote: > A few days ago I installed a Creative SB X-Fi Surround 5.1 box - a USB > device that allows you to use good speakers from your laptop. At first I > had no success at all, but following the steps at > http://fedorasolved.org/Members/fenris02/pulseaudio-fixes-and-workarounds > got me started. This is where the fun and games begins. > > When I look at System Settings > Phonon, the number of devices that are > listed varies enormously. I have seen about 10 on one occasion. Today > there are 3, one of which is greyed out. I have no idea what causes the > devices to be seen on some occasions but not on others. FWIW, the 5.1 > system tops the list, the laptop's internal speakers are next, then the > greyed out one is another configuration of the 5.1 system. > > Then there's sound output from applications. On the occasion that all the > devices were listed I had good sound from front and rear, left and right, > no center and no bass. Today, from a CD + VLC I have good sterio sound > from rear L and R - nothing from the other speakers. Amarok simply > outputs through the center speaker. Clementine plays through the laptop's > speakers. > > I'm rather at a loss with this so any ideas you might have would be very > welcome. > It seems that some change I made yesterday has made a difference - but not for the better. Now the Phonon page is systemsettings shows only PulseAudio as the output. Using the Test button, I get stereo sound from the rear speakers as before, but no application appears to be able to work with it. Every player I've tried is silent :-( Do I really have to remove PA? Anne -- New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
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