On 03/28/2011 11:09 PM, Patrick Shirkey wrote: > 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. > (I didn't snip out the old material, in case someone else comes in late and wants to know what's going on.) I don't have asoundrc. It's not loaded, and it doesn't exist in the Synaptic package manager. I have tried every combination I could think of in pavuctl. I'm using the gui, because when I opened the program in the Konsole, it produced a graphic image that looks identical to the gui I get off the KDE screen. There is nothing that says "default" and once in a while the green check box, if you hover over it, will say something like set preference or something like that, but snapping on the one for the port I want to listen to does nothing. The only way I get any kind of sound out of the top port is when I move the volume sliders, and the speakers go "bong" every time I do it. It seems to me that it would be giving up if I have to build or buy a switch box, and just pull the second card out, assuming that would let the MOBO sound work once again. So what now? --doug -- Blessed are the peacemakers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A. M. Greeley
