Re: [newbie] Low volume sound
On Sunday 09 Mar 2003 10:16 am, Michael Adams wrote: With kde when you exit you have the option of checking save settings for next session or something like that. If you don't check it, the settings are restored to the defaults or to the previous last saved settings. I have no idea which variables are affected by this as i run IceWM normally, and am testing sawfish now. But this may be one of those settings that comes up in here periodically. Thanks, Michael. I'll bear that in mind. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Low volume sound
On Sunday 09 Mar 2003 8:59 pm, bascule wrote: kmix has a 'save current volumes as default' off the 'file' menu if you open kmix :) bascule I thought I had done that before, but I've done it again to make sure. See what happens g Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Low volume sound
On Friday 07 Mar 2003 5:03 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: I haven't heard this before, Tom. I wonder if that's the reason my 'slider' kept dropping down to around 60%? Short of gravity I've never been able to explain it. Anyway, aumix, as you said, was at around 60%, so I've hitched it up. We'll see if it cures the slider problem. Anne I forgot one important thing, sorry. Once you adjust the volume levels in aumix, click on File, then Save before quitting aumix. Otherwise the settings won't be saved. Sadly, gravity prevailed. The volume indicator was way down again this morning. It's not important, but I wish I knew what's doing this. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Low volume sound
In reply to Anne's mail, d.d. Sat, 8 Mar 2003 10:14:41 +: levels in aumix, click on File, then Save before quitting aumix. Otherwise the settings won't be saved. Sadly, gravity prevailed. The volume indicator was way down again this morning. It's not important, but I wish I knew what's doing this. Can you 'repair' it by running aumix -L ? If so, perhaps you can add that to your ~/.xinitrc At least that would make a workaround. I had a similar problem with the volume in RealPlayer. After an upgrade the problem suddenly disappeared. Which still baffles me... Paul -- If thou thinkest twice, before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it. -William Penn http://nlpagan.net - Linux by Mandrake - Sylpheed by Hiro Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Low volume sound
On Saturday 08 Mar 2003 10:53 am, Paul wrote: In reply to Anne's mail, d.d. Sat, 8 Mar 2003 10:14:41 +: levels in aumix, click on File, then Save before quitting aumix. Otherwise the settings won't be saved. Sadly, gravity prevailed. The volume indicator was way down again this morning. It's not important, but I wish I knew what's doing this. Can you 'repair' it by running aumix -L ? If so, perhaps you can add that to your ~/.xinitrc At least that would make a workaround. I had a similar problem with the volume in RealPlayer. After an upgrade the problem suddenly disappeared. Which still baffles me... It's worth a try - thanks Paul Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Low volume sound
On Saturday March 8 2003 04:14 am, Anne Wilson wrote: I forgot one important thing, sorry. Once you adjust the volume levels in aumix, click on File, then Save before quitting aumix. Otherwise the settings won't be saved. Sadly, gravity prevailed. The volume indicator was way down again this morning. It's not important, but I wish I knew what's doing this. Anne Well, as we get older everyone seems to complain about the effects of gravity ; Seriously, I've never seen that behavior, have no clue as to why or how to fix it. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Low volume sound
On Saturday 08 Mar 2003 5:13 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday March 8 2003 04:14 am, Anne Wilson wrote: I forgot one important thing, sorry. Once you adjust the volume levels in aumix, click on File, then Save before quitting aumix. Otherwise the settings won't be saved. Sadly, gravity prevailed. The volume indicator was way down again this morning. It's not important, but I wish I knew what's doing this. Anne Well, as we get older everyone seems to complain about the effects of gravity ; :-) Seriously, I've never seen that behavior, have no clue as to why or how to fix it. Well, as I said, it isn't important. Just one of life's niggles g Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Low volume sound
On Sat, 08 Mar 2003 23:14, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 07 Mar 2003 5:03 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: I haven't heard this before, Tom. I wonder if that's the reason my 'slider' kept dropping down to around 60%? Short of gravity I've never been able to explain it. Anyway, aumix, as you said, was at around 60%, so I've hitched it up. We'll see if it cures the slider problem. Anne I forgot one important thing, sorry. Once you adjust the volume levels in aumix, click on File, then Save before quitting aumix. Otherwise the settings won't be saved. Sadly, gravity prevailed. The volume indicator was way down again this morning. It's not important, but I wish I knew what's doing this. Anne This isn't on of those save current settings when exiting kde things is it? -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Low volume sound
On Saturday 08 Mar 2003 7:39 pm, Michael Adams wrote: On Sat, 08 Mar 2003 23:14, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 07 Mar 2003 5:03 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: I haven't heard this before, Tom. I wonder if that's the reason my 'slider' kept dropping down to around 60%? Short of gravity I've never been able to explain it. Anyway, aumix, as you said, was at around 60%, so I've hitched it up. We'll see if it cures the slider problem. Anne I forgot one important thing, sorry. Once you adjust the volume levels in aumix, click on File, then Save before quitting aumix. Otherwise the settings won't be saved. Sadly, gravity prevailed. The volume indicator was way down again this morning. It's not important, but I wish I knew what's doing this. Anne This isn't on of those save current settings when exiting kde things is it? Not that I know of. Do you want to be more specific? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Low volume sound
On Thursday March 6 2003 07:20 pm, bascule wrote: apart from the obvious of checking mixer levels i should note that my sblive card is significantly quieter in lm 9.0 than it is in winxp, if i put the amp volume down and turn mandrake and winxp volumes to max the winxp has a lot more! why this is i don't know, with lm 8.2 this wasn't the case, but then in lm8.2 there was a mixer control (digital 1 or something) that acted as a volume control that is missing in lm9.0, i can't help wondering that there might not be some miser setting that is unaccessible to lm9.0 using even alsamixer that is not set to optimal but that is set properly by winxp, i realise that that's hardly a scientific diagnosis but it's the best i've got! the point is if you still find that the volume is below what you would expect after checking mixer levels you might just have to turn up your amp/speaker volume as there may be nothing 'wrong' with your system :) bascule On Thursday 06 Mar 2003 7:04 am, Jon wrote: Hi, I have a sound blaster card that Mandrake 9.0 has detected. Whilst the sound is coming through the volume level is very low. How can this be changed? Thanks. Jon. FWIW, if you use kmix to raise the volume, also check aumix. A few times in the past, I'd set the volume to 100% in kmix, only to find the speaker levels (spkr) in aumix were at something like 60%. I only got full volume by raising the levels in both kmix and aumix to 100%. After that, I could adjust volume using just kmix (docked into the panel). -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Low volume sound
On Friday 07 Mar 2003 3:22 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday March 6 2003 07:20 pm, bascule wrote: FWIW, if you use kmix to raise the volume, also check aumix. A few times in the past, I'd set the volume to 100% in kmix, only to find the speaker levels (spkr) in aumix were at something like 60%. I only got full volume by raising the levels in both kmix and aumix to 100%. After that, I could adjust volume using just kmix (docked into the panel). I haven't heard this before, Tom. I wonder if that's the reason my 'slider' kept dropping down to around 60%? Short of gravity I've never been able to explain it. Anyway, aumix, as you said, was at around 60%, so I've hitched it up. We'll see if it cures the slider problem. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Low volume sound
On Friday March 7 2003 09:38 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 07 Mar 2003 3:22 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: FWIW, if you use kmix to raise the volume, also check aumix. A few times in the past, I'd set the volume to 100% in kmix, only to find the speaker levels (spkr) in aumix were at something like 60%. I only got full volume by raising the levels in both kmix and aumix to 100%. After that, I could adjust volume using just kmix (docked into the panel). I haven't heard this before, Tom. I wonder if that's the reason my 'slider' kept dropping down to around 60%? Short of gravity I've never been able to explain it. Anyway, aumix, as you said, was at around 60%, so I've hitched it up. We'll see if it cures the slider problem. Anne I forgot one important thing, sorry. Once you adjust the volume levels in aumix, click on File, then Save before quitting aumix. Otherwise the settings won't be saved. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Low volume sound
On Friday 07 Mar 2003 5:03 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Friday March 7 2003 09:38 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 07 Mar 2003 3:22 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: FWIW, if you use kmix to raise the volume, also check aumix. A few times in the past, I'd set the volume to 100% in kmix, only to find the speaker levels (spkr) in aumix were at something like 60%. I only got full volume by raising the levels in both kmix and aumix to 100%. After that, I could adjust volume using just kmix (docked into the panel). I haven't heard this before, Tom. I wonder if that's the reason my 'slider' kept dropping down to around 60%? Short of gravity I've never been able to explain it. Anyway, aumix, as you said, was at around 60%, so I've hitched it up. We'll see if it cures the slider problem. Anne I forgot one important thing, sorry. Once you adjust the volume levels in aumix, click on File, then Save before quitting aumix. Otherwise the settings won't be saved. 's OK - I spotted it. I've been caught too often on that one g Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Low volume sound
On Thursday 06 Mar 2003 7:04 am, Jon wrote: Hi, I have a sound blaster card that Mandrake 9.0 has detected. Whilst the sound is coming through the volume level is very low. How can this be changed? Thanks. Jon. You probably just need to turn up the mixer level KmenuMultimediaSoundKmix save the settings after setting them The mixer can be docked in the quickstart bar, and if you log out of KDE with the 'savesettings' box checked it will still be there next time you log on. HTH derek PS Please try to avoid sending HTML mails to mailing lists. Some email clients cannot display it, and others may not display it as you intend. On my client your mail comes up with really tiny fonts. -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Low volume sound
On Thursday 06 Mar 2003 7:04 am, Jon wrote: Hi, I have a sound blaster card that Mandrake 9.0 has detected. Whilst the sound is coming through the volume level is very low. How can this be changed? Thanks. The most common cause is low mixer settings, so run KMix and check them. While you're in there, there is an option to put an icon onto the system try, just like the M$ one. It's worth doing, as I find that, on my system at least, I need to push it up again every now and then. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Low volume sound
apart from the obvious of checking mixer levels i should note that my sblive card is significantly quieter in lm 9.0 than it is in winxp, if i put the amp volume down and turn mandrake and winxp volumes to max the winxp has a lot more! why this is i don't know, with lm 8.2 this wasn't the case, but then in lm8.2 there was a mixer control (digital 1 or something) that acted as a volume control that is missing in lm9.0, i can't help wondering that there might not be some miser setting that is unaccessible to lm9.0 using even alsamixer that is not set to optimal but that is set properly by winxp, i realise that that's hardly a scientific diagnosis but it's the best i've got! the point is if you still find that the volume is below what you would expect after checking mixer levels you might just have to turn up your amp/speaker volume as there may be nothing 'wrong' with your system :) bascule On Thursday 06 Mar 2003 7:04 am, Jon wrote: Hi, I have a sound blaster card that Mandrake 9.0 has detected. Whilst the sound is coming through the volume level is very low. How can this be changed? Thanks. Jon. -- - It could be a torture chamber or a dungeon or a hideous pit or anything! - It's just a student's bedroom, sergeant. - You see? (Men at Arms) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Low volume sound
Hi, I have a sound blaster card that Mandrake 9.0 has detected. Whilst the sound is coming through the volume level is very low. How can this be changed? Thanks. Jon.
