On 03/29/2011 12:52 PM, Doug wrote: > Hello, group--I'm a newbie here. Running PCLOS with KDE 4.6.1. I > recently decided that I wanted to be able to try out SKYPE, and I > don't want to move cables around, so, since I had an old sound card, I > plugged it in. Up til then, sound was on MOBO and worked > fine. Now sound only comes out p/i card, except once for a minute, > until I messed with the GUI PAVU, and now it's back to the > p/i card again, only. I have tried sound output from an internet > radio station and from an mp3 file on a CD. It was the CD that briefly > produced output from the MOBO sound device. Here is what the system > says about the cards: > (Trident is p/i; SiS is on MOBO) > > [doug@(none) ~]$ cat /proc/asound/cards > 0 [TRID4DWAVENX ]: TRID4DWAVENX - Trident TRID4DWAVENX > Trident TRID4DWAVENX PCI Audio at 0xdc00, irq 17 > 1 [SI7012 ]: ICH - SiS SI7012 > SiS SI7012 with ALC655 at irq 18 > > I went as far as I could with the instructions in "The Perfect > Setup"--I'm in group 2, and I edited /etc/group > to eliminate everything and then added "pulse." At this point I got a > little confused, coming to "Third Party > Applications" and ALSA Applications: my asound.conf is not in /etc > but in /usr/share/xbmc/system. So far I > have not messed with that. After that, I got even more perplexed: > what do I do (if anything) with the virtual > ALSA device pulse? (I find /etc/pulse and > /etc/sound/profiles/pulse.) What do I do with % aplay and % amixer? > And in which file? > > Further down, "If you want to make PulseAudio driver the default, use > something like this in the ALSA configuration > files:" Well, I don't know if I want to make the PulseAudio driver > the default; I don't know what that would do > for me or to me. And if I did, just what are the "ALSA configuration > files"? Then if I should do this, where would > I put the load-module module-alsa-sink device-hw:0? > > One other thing: To the far right of each "port" is a green ball with > a white checkmark. It cannot be unchecked or > modified, so I don't know what it's supposed to do. The plug-in card > shows up as the lower port, even tho it appears > first on the list above, and has a lower IRQ. > > Sorry to be such a dunce, but I'm afraid I have exhausted my > resources. All help and advice gratefully appreciated. > You can change the order of the cards in the asoundrc or set the default card in the sound preferences (pavuctl) to be the onboard device. Cheers. > --doug > > > > > -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd.
