Audio problems from some sources

[d99ma]

Hi

I've got some sound issues. Mostly it works great, but when I visit sites where java, flash or realplayer is used to play sounds I have some problems. They seem to take control of the hardware so no other sound sorces will work (not a major problem really, but annoying) and I'm also not able to control volume. It is playing on max, and nothing seems to change that.

Any ideas?
/Martin

[suicidal_orange_II]

You should look into setting up dmix, there is a good guide in the wiki. As for changing the volume are there no controls in alsamixer (or whatever mixer in X you are using) or do they just not change anything?

It would also be useful to know what soundcard you have, and whether you have the sound drivers compiled into the kernel or as modules


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[padoor]

emerge aumix it may control the vol.
or u can try setting the pcm control as main vol control in kmix.
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[suicidal_orange_II]

padoor: Not everyone uses KDE, and a couple of days back your advice led to someone installing 1/2 of kde just to sort a sound problem, which isnt a good thing. If they don't complain now they will when emerge -u world notices a new version of kde has been released and they have to wait hours for it to complete the update. Perhaps before giving this advice you could say "if you use kde try kmix or if you use gnome use gnome-volume-control" as this will at least cover most people

I have used 7 different soundcard modules (including ac97 onboard, intel-hda and emu101k as well as more obscure ones), and never had a card that wouldn't work with plain alsamixer in console, which everyone has. While not the prettiest app, it works.


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[padoor]

suicidal_orange_II
noted ur point.
thanks for pointing .

edit : i have given him this following link to remove all kde packages fully

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-472143-start-0-postdays-0-postorder-asc-highlight-uninstall.html

hope that will help.
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[d99ma]

Sorry for not answering before, I've been away.

dmix is working when using most things and I can control the volume in alsamixer (and X) I've got a Realtek HD card and I'm using the intel-hda driver compiled into kernel.
The problem seems to be that some apps use oss and then everything goes banana.
After upgrading to the flash 9 beta which uses alsa there is no problem with sound from flash sources.
And by having realplayer load libaoss.so realplay now also works.

Browser java is still causing problems though. When a site has a java applet that play a sound it does so at maximum sound level ignoring alsa sound.

/Martin

[cgmd]

d99ma wrote:

[cgmd]

d99ma wrote:

[d99ma]

edit /opt/RealPlayer/realplay

and there should be some lines conserning the variable LD_PRELOAD
set that to $LD_PRELOAD:/usr/lib/libaoss.so
and export LD_PRELOAD