On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 04:34:22PM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > I'm running Fedora-4 on a Sony C1VFK Picturebook, > with a Yamaha YMF-754 audio controller (according to lspci), > and I'm having trouble with sound - > which sometimes works perfectly, but more often does not work at all. > > Now the problem may well be with the hardware, > but my gripe is with the various methods which seem to be offered > for controlling sound. > > I should say that I am running KDE, > and I'm not entirely sure which tools belong to KDE, which to Fedora, > and which to Linux generally. > > System Settings=>Soundcard Detection > strikes me as completely useless. > What exactly is the point of it? > Has anyone ever found it of any use? > > Why isn't there a System Settings=>Sound > which will allow me to change the sound settings? > > The Control Centre=>Sound & Multimedia=>Sound System > is almost as useless. > containing only settings which I cannot imagine any normal person using > (eg control sound from another computer). > > I have a Sound icon (a loudspeaker) in my panel, > and if I right click on this and choose Show Mixer Window > a KMix window comes up with a large selection of controls, > all of which are more or less meaningless to me. > > What does a right-angle triangle, half-shaded in green, > with a letter b on the hypotenuse, mean? > Does this symbol have some universal significance? > > What does "FM Legacy" mean? > What does it mean to set this control to say 55% ? > And what is the strange icon, looking a little like a pen, > which appears above it, and 4 other different controls? > > What a mess! I share you frustration. I would stat with alsamixer and set the channels at the right levels. Which for me means maximum except for microphone if you don't have a microphone. You don't mention the options under Applications ->Sound and Video The volume control might help. But I don't know if they show up in the kde menu. -- ======================================================================= The goys have proven the following theorem... -- Physicist John von Neumann, at the start of a classroom lecture. ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
