Re: [SLE] Skype, mic and artsd

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To: suse-linux-e@suse.com
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 23:35:24 -0700

On Wednesday 06 April 2005 08:09, Dumb Waiter wrote:

>
> After having tried three different mikes (and a preamplifier box,
> too), and removing
> the soundcard + enabling the onboard chip, and the mic/Skype stuff still
> not working, I happened upon the Open sound site:
>
> http://www.opensound.com/linux.html
>
> ...and installed their free OSS drivers for my Suse 9.2 smp kernel.
>
> Had to boot once or twice, to get rid of some previous drivers or
> somesuch thing,
> before the installation went through, all the way.
>
> Being a dimwit - in Linux and out of it - I had some trouble getting sounds
> to work (kept enabling and disabling the sound system in KDE control
> centre, as some instructions/newsgroup articles were very vague, even
> contradictory), but finally I got it working, and now the mic records just
> fine, without any preamplifier; I use the Labtec headphones/mic set.
>
> It took a while before I found out that typing "ossmixer" in console window
> gave me the parameters I could change with a respective command; there
> was no GUI mixer for OSS that I could find.
>
> In KDE control Centre I have the sound system enabled, "Run with highest
> priority" ticked, and on next page the [Hardware] the audio device selected
> is Open Sound System, plus the "Full duplex" thingie is ticked.
>
> According to OSS instructions whenever I downlaod a new kernel, I've got
> to re-install the OSS drivers, lest the system crash. (And the free drivers
> need a re-installation once in four months; the "paid" drivers do not, and
> the paid ones cover some cards that the free ones don't, I reckon.)
>
> The card I use now is SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 and the on-board sound chip
> is diabled.
>
> In Rosegarden, I can play midi files via some free soundfonts I have down-
> loaded (merlin_pro.sf2 -- have to use it as I cannot find my Creative sf
> disk), or by using the free Aeolus virtual organ thing for the midi
> soundsin Rosegarden,
> but in KDE control centre the test "Midi" sound does NOT work. Test
> "Sound", on the other hand works o.k.
>
> Skype works rather fine - the only problem is that there is a nearly
> regular scratch sound (not from the mike, more like some buffer or
> processor thing, or something like that) that is a bit irritable, and the
> volume has to be turned rather high so that I can hear the other fellow -
> and turned low again so that I won't soil my pants when I put the speakers
> on and a wav plays.
>
> In KDE Control Centre / sound the skip prevention sound buffer is 232
> millisecs and auto-suspend after idle is 10 secs.
>
> Audacity records fine, but there's a bit of humming from my other
> electronic equipment. Recording level is excellent though.
>
> Good luck with Skype & your mic!
>
> Hope this helps you some.

Dear Friend,
thank you for writing your hard experiances. At list, I will not make same
mistakes as you did.
I will try to find some other solutions, because I don't want to use limited
oss drivers. I don't need paid drivers because I have simple and cheap sound
card. It's ridiculous to have problems like this with distribution like SUSE.
I hope next version will be better.
I will keep trying to find some different way to solve this, if it is
possible.

-- 
Mirko 
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