On Monday 06 May 2019 11:06:34 am Gene Heskett wrote: > 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) > > I installed all opf these that synaptic could find, pavucontrol came up and I turned everyting wide open, and haven't heard a thing since. I think I should remove all of pulse, alsa used to just work. AV97 sound on this mobo.
Other suggestions? FF, sent to foxnews or to youtube, is frozen with a circular waiting icon in motion forever now when asked to play a video at either site. So I can't even watch the hand waving. > > > > 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 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>
