On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Timothy Murphy <gayleard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I installed Fedora-9 (from the KDE Live CD) > on a big new disk on my laptop (ThinkPad T43) yesterday, > and found that sound was not working. > I noticed on left-clicking on the sound icon in the panel > that the sound mixer was muted, > and the sound was set at minimal level as well. > Why? > 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. > Anyway, after unmuting the sound and increasing the level > I found there was still no sound. I had to switch my default to ALSA and all was well. Preferences-->Hardware-->Sound ( or something like that) > > Left-clicking on the sound icon, and then left clicking on the word "Mixer" > in the small window that appeared brought up a KMix window. > I noticed that the "Front" slider was set at the minimal level in this, > and pushing it up started sound working. > > What exactly does "Front" mean? > > Windows XP seems to get by without all this sophistication. > As far as I can see, all I can do under Windows > is make the sound stronger or weaker. > I must say that is all I want. > > Am I alone in feeling there is too much expertise, > and not enough common sense, in the Linux sound community? > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > -- If opinions were really like assholes we'd each have just one -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
