--- On Fri, 7/4/08, Timothy Murphy <gayleard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Timothy Murphy <gayleard@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Does one have to be a sound engineer?
> To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Friday, July 4, 2008, 10:54 AM
> max bianco wrote:
>
> >> Surely the rational setup would be to have sound
> working
> >> at a reasonably high level when one logs on?
> >
> > I think the reasoning is not breaking the hardware or
> your ear drums.
> > Blowing speakers is relatively easy to do.
>
> Windows doesn't seem to worry about that.
> As it happens, I am using the laptop speaker -
> I doubt if this has ever deafened anyone.
>
> > I had to switch my default to ALSA and all was well.
> > Preferences-->Hardware-->Sound ( or something
> like that)
>
> I'm using KDE, and don't see any setting like this
> in the main menu.
> The only sound application there is KMix,
> which does not seem to offer anything along those lines.
>
> The only other application that I can see to control sound
> is System Settings=>Sound
> and I don't see anything similar there either.
>
> (Incidentally, I would have thought the default was always
> ALSA -
> what else could it be?)
It was arts for KDE and esound for Gnome prior to PulseAudio. Now it is PulseAudio.
>
>
>
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