Robert Persson wrote: > Bob van der Poel wrote: >> I'm running kde and have kmix as the mixer. I a little pop-up which is >> supposed to be a volume slider ... problem is that is really isn't. Not >> with my 24/96 card. Here's the problem: the card uses 2 channels, both >> labeled ADC to control the left and right volumes. I can assign one or >> the other to the <main volume> slider, but it only effects one channel. >> So, is there a way to tie the 2 together so I can easily control volume? >> >> Now, the reason I got to this at all is that I got a new keyboard >> (computer, not music) and it has some multimedia buttons on it. I've got >> volume-up/down and mute. The mute displays a nice Mute-On or Mute-Off >> message, but does nothing. And the up/down displays a nice slider and >> appears to do the same as kmix. Again, I need to tie the 2 sides >> together for this. Also, I have no idea of what the program for the >> multi-media keys is, but I assume it is kmix. >> >> > I have a different problem to yours with kmix and my audigy 2, in that > what is supposed to be the balance control does nothing when you move it > to the left, but fades the volume to zero when you move it right (and > then won't restore the volume when you centre it again). Although I have > not found any of the other various mixers for alsa to be completely > satisfactory, I have not been able to duplicate this particular problem > with any of them, which suggests to me that kmix has some problems > peculiar to itself. So it might be worth your while trying another mixer. > > I have got better mileage out of kamix myself. However when I am > completely stuck I use gamix. It's not pretty, and many of the sliders > aren't labelled (at least not for the Audigy 2), but it should allow (or > at least it allows me) to control pretty well every mixer parameter on > your sound card. > > Robert > If I want to actually do mixing I use alsamixergui which seems to do most of what I need to do. I just don't see that any mixer other than kmix will dock into the kde toolbar. Nor do I see anyway to set the multimedia keys to anything other than the defaults, which appears to be kmix (but I'm not sure). Oh, tried gamix this morning and it's a nice little demo of core dumps :) Can't find kamix in my ubuntu packages. -- Bob van der Poel ** Wynndel, British Columbia, CANADA ** EMAIL: bob@xxxxxxxxxxxx WWW: http://www.mellowood.ca _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
