realtek audio card no more works

hello guys…

i was having a good time here

but i have got a small problem,at the system startup kuda applet manager shows my audio card no more works so its falling back to default…**

this is my audio card config:**
*options snd slots=snd-hda-intel

5Dex.Xwg_vpelK3D:IXP SB4x0 High Definition Audio Controller

alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
*

can any one help me…

i can hear a very odd sound at high volume

thank you

i actually dont know whether its a problem or not… so came over here to ask all the geeks here

A number of users have reported this. There are a couple of threads here, where users have posted solutions that worked for them:

An odd sound at high volume? Perhaps that is distortion? … over driving of the speakers maybe ? This reads like a different problem.

If so, for this different problem, you could go to YaST > Hardware > Sound > Other > Volume and move both PCM and Master volume to high levels. Then close YaST. Next go to your mixer and adjust the level both PCM and Master volume to remove the distortion. Note every time you start a new multimedia application, the level of PCM may dynamically change, and you may need to re-adjust it.

thank u very much…

i have a query for u

what’s the phonon-backend-gstreamer and phonon-backend-xine do
and what is the difference

any way i got my problem solved… that message no more appears… and after following the steps u gave. sound is some what better

I’m a user like yourself (ie not a developer) but from what I know, in KDE 4, the developers decided to use a new multimedia API, known as Phonon. Phonon provides a common interface on top of other systems, such as GStreamer. Phonon (software) - Wikipedia

Phonon is a new KDE technology, one of the purposes of which is to offer a consistent API to use audio or video within multimedia applications. The API is designed to be Qt-like, and as such, it offers KDE developers a familiar style of functionality. Phonon is not a new sound server, and it does not compete with xine, nor GStreamer, nor ESD, nor aRts, etc. Rather, due to the ever-shifting nature of multimedia programming, it offers a consistent API that wraps around these other multimedia technologies. Then, for example, if GStreamer developers decide to alter the GStreamer API, only Phonon needs to be adjusted, instead of each KDE application being forced to update individually to work with a revised GStreamer API (interface).

Phonon is powered by what the developers call “engines” and there is one engine for each supported backend.

The phonon-backend-gstreamer and phonon-backend-xine are two of the backends.

You can read more here: Sound-concepts - openSUSE

Glad to read its working better.