I don't have that either. I think this setting may ne specific to his card:

Hey Dig, here is a screenie of my AlsaMixer. The tone is the second from the left and its a on/off Switch.

http://img142.imageshack.us/my.php?i...0233661ie2.png

Han

Yeah I don't have that. Thanks for the screenshot though!

I installed alsa-plugins-1.0.15.
I followed the advice in the samplerate.txt file and added:
to my ~/.asoundrc (which I created).

After restarting amarok, the sound was amazing. (Please tell me I'm not imagining this). The only problem is that once I restart kde, the sound system crashes, and is unrecoverable. I have to rename .asoundrc to something different to get it to start up again.

I really don't understand how it all works so I'm looking through Readmes and documentations to try to get an idea of what's going on.

If someone can give me a clue, that would be great.

Anything in the error logs for, eg. X?
Brian

If you only want to listen to music, try setting to half-duplex.
If alsa is also trying to monitor input, then this can cause overloading.

I think the tone is just for sound cards that support it. I have a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum in my box and it has it too.

Sorry for the late reply.

I don't think the error logs for X would help here. This happens when I restart the KDE sound server... not sure where to get these logs from.

I am confused I honestly don't really understand how the whole thing works. ALSA is the fundamental sound thingy for linux right? I know ARTS is important for KDE right? Does ARTS run "on top" of ALSA or what?

Can anyone proved a layman's description of how it all works or point me to a link. Everything I've come across so far seems to assume that the reader has a fair bit of technical knowledge. I don't want to seem like I don't want to do my own research, but if I could get a little perspective first, it would help me a lot.

Thanks.