Thanks for the input Curt.I will keep plugging at it. I may try the window manager idea and see if my ham stuff will work well with it. If so KDE may hit the back burner for a while and that will really confuse my kids when they ask to use my computer. HHHmmm that may be part of the problem right there....
I purchased one of the cheepie USB sound dongles and that just really added to the confusion. I was going to run my other digital stuff on it and leave the on board audio for the desktop, but the USB thing did really strange stuff when I booted up and I was not going to manually insert it EVERY boot. Thanks again. I don't think they really need me as a Digi here but I know we have dead spots just southwest of me that I could help cover. I will keep trying. 73 On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Curt, WE7U <arc...@eskimo.com> wrote: > On Thu, 7 Jan 2010, Tim Billingsley wrote: > >> A few moments ago I checked it and >> I received one station a few miles from me and nothing else. Transmit >> audio seems to work fine, but there is one other item that may help in >> diagnosis. Almost every time I start xastir it will transmit once and >> after that it stores every beacon/message/query until I stop the >> interface and restart it. At that point everything transmits fine. The >> receive is hit and miss at best. A couple of days ago I ran almost all >> day with no glitches, today I have had no luck at all. I am about to >> reboot again and see what it does. > > Most of the trouble I had with soundmodem had to do with something > else whacking the receive levels. Sometimes it was the desktop > environment trying to do audio when it came up or some kind of audio > alert, sometimes it was an audio or video player app. By bringing > up an audio volume control application I could get it working again. > > I mostly solved this problem by not running a Desktop Environment > like KDE or Gnome, and running just a Window Manager instead. Most > people these days wouldn't go that route, but I'm a hard-core Unix > user so I feel at home with this. I run FVWM2 window manager. > > I don't know how to fix the soundcard order problem. I haven't run > a system with multiple soundcards yet but was planning to play with > that in the future in order to isolate the video/audio/system sounds > from the ham radio stuff. Perhaps someone with a USB 2nd soundcard > setup for their radios has solved these sorts of problems. > > -- > Curt, WE7U. <http://www.eskimo.com/~archer> > APRS: Where it's at! <http://www.xastir.org> > Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown > Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. > The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" > _______________________________________________ > Xastir mailing list > Xastir@lists.xastir.org > http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir > -- "Friends don't let friends do Windows" http://www.distrowatch.com _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir