On Monday 29 November 2004 09:12, Eric Jahn wrote:
> On Monday 29 November 2004 02:48 am, Bob Stia wrote:
> > Anybody here that can make the CD's sound right using alsamixer ???
>
> With Suse, what usually gets me with audio CDs is that in KMix, in
> the "Input" tab, that the CD input gas a green light (turned on) with
> volume. I fiddled a lot in 9.1 with Kmix, Alsamixer, etc, and it was
> really tricky and the only thing that reliably worked was Kmix. Make
> sure also that all the other inputs are off (red light) in Kmix. One
> time, I had the mic on and it made everything, like CDs, sound faint.
> Turn up the PCM to say 2/3 all the way in output. Also, it sounds
> like your 3D control should be closer to 1/2 position, because that
> will make voices sound ghostly if set incorrectly. -Eric
Eric,
Thanks for setting me off in the right direction. It really seems to be
a "black art". In alsamixer I was thinking that the two bars
represented the right and left channels. Apparently that is not so. I
finally got the CD to sound correctly (under the CD setting by having
the left "bar" much higher than the right "bar".
Anyway, it would be really nice if there were some sort of descriptive
way to set up alsa. What you need to do now is have a CD playing and
listen to what happens when you change the settings.
Now. it would be really nice if there were some way to set up the volume
for all of the system to play sounds at the same volume without
fiddling with all of the different controls.
Thanks again. Now at least I can hear the CD somewhat correctly.
Bob S.
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