On Mon 09 Apr 2007, Anne Wilson wrote: > > I'm running KDE-3.5.6 under Fedora-6 with kernel 2.6.20-1.2933.fc6, > > on a ThinkPad T43 with Intel AC'97 Audio Controller (ICH6 Family), > > and I can hear nothing - sound is turned off. > > > > However, if I go to Control Centre=>Sound & Multimedia=>Sound System > > and click on Test Sound I hear the sound perfectly - > > but that is the only place I can hear anything. > > Because system sounds and other sounds don't use the same output channels. > There have been lots of messages on this list about a recent update > re-setting the channels, lowering them or muting them. Run alsamixer from > a terminal and check all the outputs. Thanks, that did the trick. Unfortunately, I made several changes in alsamixer and don't know which had the desired effect. I must say, a sound program that requires you to run another program in order to get any sound is unforgivably BAD, and should be dumped. > > If I go to F (K Menu)=>Administration=>Soundcard Detection > > I hear nothing when I press the "Test sound" button, > > although the correct Model and Module are chosen. > > > > The log file says > > "aplay: main:545: audio open error: Device or resource busy". > > If anything is hogging it, it's likely to be aRts. In kcontrol > Sound & > Multimedia > Sound System make sure that 'Auto-suspend if idle after:' is > set to 1 second. Great minds think alike - I had done exactly this, without any effect that I could see. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
