On 03/29/2011 12:52 PM, Doug wrote:
Hello, group--I'm a newbie here. Running PCLOS with KDE 4.6.1. I recently decided that I wanted to be able to try out SKYPE, and I don't want to move cables around, so, since I had an old sound card, I plugged it in. Up til then, sound was on MOBO and worked fine. Now sound only comes out p/i card, except once for a minute, until I messed with the GUI PAVU, and now it's back to the p/i card again, only. I have tried sound output from an internet radio station and from an mp3 file on a CD. It was the CD that briefly produced output from the MOBO sound device. Here is what the system says about the cards:
(Trident is p/i; SiS is on MOBO)

[doug@(none) ~]$ cat /proc/asound/cards
 0 [TRID4DWAVENX   ]: TRID4DWAVENX - Trident TRID4DWAVENX
                      Trident TRID4DWAVENX PCI Audio at 0xdc00, irq 17
 1 [SI7012         ]: ICH - SiS SI7012
                      SiS SI7012 with ALC655 at irq 18

I went as far as I could with the instructions in "The Perfect Setup"--I'm in group 2, and I edited /etc/group to eliminate everything and then added "pulse." At this point I got a little confused, coming to "Third Party Applications" and ALSA Applications: my asound.conf is not in /etc but in /usr/share/xbmc/system. So far I have not messed with that. After that, I got even more perplexed: what do I do (if anything) with the virtual ALSA device pulse? (I find /etc/pulse and /etc/sound/profiles/pulse.) What do I do with % aplay and % amixer?
And in which file?

Further down, "If you want to make PulseAudio driver the default, use something like this in the ALSA configuration files:" Well, I don't know if I want to make the PulseAudio driver the default; I don't know what that would do for me or to me. And if I did, just what are the "ALSA configuration files"? Then if I should do this, where would
I put the load-module module-alsa-sink device-hw:0?

One other thing: To the far right of each "port" is a green ball with a white checkmark. It cannot be unchecked or modified, so I don't know what it's supposed to do. The plug-in card shows up as the lower port, even tho it appears
first on the list above, and has a lower IRQ.

Sorry to be such a dunce, but I'm afraid I have exhausted my resources. All help and advice gratefully appreciated.


You can change the order of the cards in the asoundrc or set the default card in the sound preferences (pavuctl) to be the onboard device.



Cheers.


--doug







--
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd.

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