On Sunday 29 July 2007 17:49, Mike Burger wrote: > > OK, this was working but it has stopped. > > > > For a long time videos on CNN had never worked. > > Then, several weeks ago they started working. > > And then several weeks more and the AUDIO stopped but the video was fine. > > > > For some reason, today I decided to go to jibjab, and lo, the same > > behaviour. > > I see the video, but no audio. Now this has ALWAYS worked. > > > > And my suspision is that I have a built in sound card (intel) on the > > motherboard, > > and add on sound card (sound blaster) and the jibjab (and probably the > > CNN) are > > connecting to the WRONG ONE (the intel). > > > > Changing the connection to the other output, and lo I have audio. > > > > So how do I tell the world which is the default sound card? > > Or how do I tell individual programs what is the default sound card? > > I dont see anything in jibjab nor in the netscape that it is running in > > Mumph. > > Grump. > > -- > > Reg.Clemens > > reg@xxxxxxx <Mikes top post reset as a bottom post, as top posting can be frowned upon> > I'm not 100% sure why nobody's suggested this, but... > > I'm going to take a leap, here, and assume that you're not using your > onboard (Intel) sound system, since you spent the time, energy and money > to buy and install the Sound Blaster. > > Why not just go into your system's BIOS setup, and turn off that sound > system? Voila...no more confusion over which sound card/subsystem to use. > Thats true, and about 4 years ago when I first started working with computers I did something similar. I bought an Audigy2 soundblaster, and wasn't sure if XP could do 2 soundcards, so disabled the onboard one with a jumper on the mobo. Very soon after that I moved to Linux, and havn't turned back. It can be usefull to have access to 2 soundcards though, in which case the indexing options in /etc/modprobe.conf work well. For example IIRC Gene Heskett uses one of his 2 soundcards just for Skype. That way Skype has a soundcard all to itself, and doesn't interfere with the other soundcard which he can use for other stuff. I may move the jumper back to enable the onboard soundcard again, just to see what soundcard this is, but as I have about 14 different distros running on this machine, it may take some time to sort them all out with the newly detected soundcard. Nigel.
