I have a rather curious problem with the sound system on my mandrake 10.1 install. Yes, the sound works fine, but the problem is where the output channel is located.

The master sound channel seems to have no effect on the present volume. After some playing, I discovered that the only channel that would give me similar functionality is the Headphone channel. I have checked and rechecked, and have the speakers connected to only sound output at the back of the machine. Moreover, the volume channels work properly when I boot into windows.

This is rather annoying, because in order to change the volume of the system, I have to open kMix and modify the headphone channel. This makes the kMix applet somewhat useless.

Is there anyway to fix this problem, or in the least, make the headphone channel appear in the kMix applet?

Thanks!

I am having the same problem. So my reply here is just to make this thread current.

I have a C++ application I am writing, and want to control the KMix volume with DCOP. The only volume control KMix provides DCOP access to is the master volume, and not headphone volume. So I have no access to the volume via DCOP.

Any solutions for this?


KDE 3.4
SUSE 10.0
AC'97 onboard audio

I found this tidbit in another post....

Haven't tested it yet.

Tested the above solution.

In SUSE 10.0 you set this configuration through YaST.

Go to YaST | Hardware | Sound

Select the card you want to edit options for and then hit Edit in the lower panel. Select AC'97 workaround item in the listbox. Then in the bottom of the dialog select the value 2 and hit set.

Hit finish and you're done.

Yes... this is spoonfeeding. I don't mind doing it because everyone really wishes the answers were of this level of detail.