On Monday 06 May 2019 04:05:46 am Jonas Smedegaard wrote: [...] > > In recent times, Pulseaudio "hijacks" direct ALSA access by > registering with ALSA as a virtual audio card, which reroutes through > its pipeline and then sending out audio through the real audio card. > > You can force avoid Pulseaudio by starting an application like this > from a terminal: > > pasuspender -- speaker-test
which gets me total silence, except for a low level beep from kmail (trinity version r14.0.6) as mail is incoming. What does that tell us? I'm a dummy about such, so please carry on. > > If that makes audio louder, then you have identified that you > generally use Pulseaudio and it is dampening: Look for Pulseaudio > tools and turn the (many many many!) knobs in there... > > Here are some of the Pulseaudio tools you could try: > > pulsemixer (text-based) > pamix (text-based) > pavucontrol (graphical) > paman (graphical - not volume control but other settings) > pasystray (puts pavucontrol and paman into system tray) > > > If messing with Pulseaudio doesn't work for kmail then try look into > KDE settings or try locate other ways to configure Phonon - or perhaps > try remove the phonon backend packages you don't want: Modern KDE > applications (those linked with Qt5) can use either of the packages > phonon4qt5-backend-vlc phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer > phonon4qt5-backend-null, and older KDE applications (those linked with > Qt4) can use either of the packages phonon-backend-vlc > phonon-backend-gstreamer phonon-backend-null. > > > Good luck :-) > > - Jonas Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
