Mark Knecht posted on Tue, 01 May 2012 09:03:22 -0700 as excerpted: > I misunderstood your suggestion originally. To me KDE is a big > monolithic thing, a behemoth the parts of which are not to be trifled > with by me. That said the problem (at least initially) is kmix. I did an > emerge -C kmix from the console and then started KDE. All microphone > settings appear to be OK.
Good to see my suspicions were correct. =:^) As for kde being big/ monolithic, yeah, that's an easy enough thought pattern to get into. But it doesn't tend to help troubleshooting, and it's useful to remember that there's a bunch of different developers each with their individual thoughts and ideas working on kde too, sometimes. That's actually the bit I have more trouble with, as it's very easy to take one kde-dev's thoughts on something and pin them on kde as a whole, but it doesn't necessarily work that way. > The next tests will be to exit KDE, come back in again, make sure things > are ok, maybe emerge kmix again, see if it's messed up again, etc. I'll > do that later today after the market closes. Right now I'm in the middle > of a bunch of trades. AFAIK there's an option somewhere, that sets whether kmix resets the volume on kde startup, or not. But as I said, it has been awhile since I had it installed, and of course it's possible they changed it along the line, too, which might explain why it started working differently for you. > QUESTION: Might you be able to suggest any other Open Source mixer to > replace kmix? I find I need a desktop mixer due to my work in VMs all > day long where every app and every machine has different volume levels. Personally, alsamixer has worked well for me, for years. I can run it in a konsole window when in kde, or from a VT when I'm not in X, which is nice, and I actually find it clearer to deal with than kmix in some ways, tho I liked kmix for its ability to have one (configurable) control set as master, and being able to just pop that up from the tray, when needed. But whenever I want to actually see what controls are available and change the more complex options or adjust more than one channel, I tend to prefer alsamixer. Since I like alsamixer, it works equally well in a VT or a terminal window, and it tends to be installed wherever alsa is used, which is pretty much everywhere on Linux, I really haven't had much need to go looking for anything else. Of course I know about kmix as part of kde, but other than that, I haven't needed to look, so I haven't. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde-linux mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
