sound really low on 64bit opensuse11

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#1

Hi all,

I am trying to figure out why my sound is really low on my 64bit machine.

I am using onboard audio chip (Realtek).

I can hear everything played, but really low.

I have turned up all the audio settings on the mixer, and any application that is playing sound.

What else can I do?

Heeter

#2

On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:16:03 GMT
Heeter <Heeter@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to figure out why my sound is really low on my 64bit
> machine.
>
> I am using onboard audio chip (Realtek).
>
> I can hear everything played, but really low.
>
> I have turned up all the audio settings on the mixer, and any
> application that is playing sound.
>
> What else can I do?
>
>
> Heeter
>
>
Hi
Have you changed the settings in YaST? Hardware->sound and then
press the button called ‘other’ and select ‘Volume’ Set both sliders
to 100% and hit test.

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#3

Hey, Thanks

That really helped.

Heeter

#4

Hey, this helped me too. My volume was a bit low.
Did anyone notice kde3 seems to be using kmix from kde4

I couldn’t see a kmix in the repo for kde3 either
It works fine, just odd.

#5

kmix is KDE4 app. kamix is KDE3 app. I’m just using kmix in KDE3.5.9 (as well as other KDE4 applications like kmail).

#6

I had thought kamix discontinued some time back:
Kamix home page

#7

… and kasamix never got out of the beta stage …
http://kalsamix.sourceforge.net/news.php

I don’t recall kamix nor kalsamix ever been offered as the default openSUSE KDE mixer. Instead its always (as much as I can remember) been kmix.

#8

I just checked - search in software management
and it’s there

but I’m sure kmix was a kde3 app, I don’t recall it being kamix

not that it matters. It’s working!

#9

Originally, I installed openSUSE 11 with KDE4, which installed the kde4-kmix package. Soon after, I realised I needed to stay with KDE3.5.9, and this dragged in kamix. I noticed the different icon, and at one stage both appeared in the system tray (hence my assumption).

linux:/home/dean # rpm -qa |grep k*mix
kde4-kmix-4.0.4-15.1
SDL_mixer-1.2.8-100.1
kamix-0.0.7e-397.1

I’ve just deleted the superfluous kamix app.

#10

Interesting!

When I installed 11.0 with a KDE-3.5.9 install (and no KDE4) only kmix was installed. … Its peculiar (and interesting) that kamix would be dragged in later (when you presumably (under YaST) selected a KDE-3.5.9 pattern under KDE-3 base and desktop).