On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 15:52, Anne Wilson wrote:
> I couldn't say about that particular card, but my older machine has a
> SB Live!5.1 which shows up as an es1371. My original SB Live!5.1
> used the emu10k1, but this one will not run with that driver. It
> seems that boards having the same name do not necessarily mean that
> they are identical.
>
> In this box I have an Audigy Platinum. The default for that is OSS,
> but emu10k2 is an alternative driver. I found that I got much better
> results by changing to that. If you are offered an alternative
> driver, try it. You can always change it back if it doesn't help.
>
> Anne
Following your suggestion I changed the driver to the other option
offered. Then I thought "how do I test it?"
I opened the Configuration-KDE-Look and Feel-system notifications and
tested one of the wav choices. Still no sound. So I went back and
changed the driver back to the original es1371.
I returned again to the System notification configuration and tried
again. Still no sound. So I figured I'd try playing with any setting
options I could find basically setting everything to maximum. Still no
luck.
Then I clicked on player settings. I noted that "Use External Player"
was checked but that no player was specified. I deselected the use
external player option and tried again. I selected the KDE open wav file
and hit the play button. The resulting sound rose me from my chair,
startled everyone in the house, and sent the dogs barking to get out.
After letting the dogs out,I adjusted the volume and tried again with
much less startling results.
So apparently the problem all along was that somehow or other the use
external player option was selected at some point. During the update?? I
don't know, but my sound system appears to be working at this point.
Thanks again to everybody for all the help with this!!
LTR }}:{(
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