[Lysdestic]

Hey all.

I have a Soundblaster Audigy sound card in my desktop box that is giving me some problems. I purchased it when I realised that my C-Media on-board sound that was only supported by the USB-Audio module wouldn't do surround sound.

The surround sound works fine, the issue lies in the fact that if I am playing music in Amarok (which is almost all of the time) sound from other applications won't play. Such as Kopete, KNotify, Games, etc.

If another application tries to play sound a message pops up by the system tray from phonon (no clue what that is) saying that the default card is disabled.

Also, I don't think this is a KDE 4 issue, as it doesn't happen on my laptop, but at start up the KDE startup sound stops halfway through (about the same time the tip of the day pops up). It sounds to me like it is because of the multiple application issue.

Another thing. Is it normal to not have a master volume control in KMix when you have a surround system? I have volume sliders for the indivudual channels but not a slider for all of them. That is kind of frustrating, as I would like to be able to turn down all of my speakers, as opposed to one or two of them. =\

The card is identified in YaST as a SB Audigy LS using the snd-ca0106 module. If any other info is needed, let me know.