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Originally Posted by Lysdestic
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.
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Typically, the sound APIs with ESD, aRts, and OSS won't share audio between applications. However the alsa API (where alsa comes with both hardware sound drivers and an API) will share audio between applications.
What works for some users in the 10.x openSUSE is to specify alsa as the sound output module in each and every multimedia applications.
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Originally Posted by Lysdestic
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.
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I'm not up to speed on the practical aspects of phonon.
I know Phonon was intended to provide a common interface on top of other systems, such as GStreamer. It was to be introduced with KDE4 (which I don't have installed), to offer a consistent API to use audio or video within multimedia applications. Phonon is not supposed to be a new sound server, and is not supposed to compete with xine, GStreamer, ESD, aRts, etc. Rather, due to the ever-shifting nature of multimedia programming, it is supposed to offer a consistent API that wraps around these other multimedia technologies.
As to how that was implemented, ... I don't know. Hence I don't know if you need to point Phonon to use alsa (instead of ESD, aRts, OSS) or if you have to point your applications to use alsa.
KDE4 is too unstable for my temperament, and hence I will be behind the learning curve on the practical aspects of smoothing out KDE4 sound hiccups. Others who know the theory and practical will need to step in and help you here.
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Originally Posted by Lysdestic
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. =\
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I find the appearance of kmix tends to be very specific to the various sound cards. Maybe this is an enhancement or bug you need to forward to the KDE developers.
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Originally Posted by Lysdestic
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.
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I assume you have seen Chrysantine's solution for audigy users with no sound (and I think it not applicable to you).
[Solution] Creative Audigy 1/2 + 11.0 + KDE/GNOME + ALSA - openSUSE Forums