KAmix, QAmix

riba43 · 05-31-2005, 06:22 AM

Hi everybody,

Something weird happened to my QAmix and KAmix. I was working on my comp ( nothing special just an office app was running) when i saw that the loudspeaker icon on my tool-bar was disabled. When trying to enable nothing happened. I was trying to reinstall alsa, alsa mixer, alsa-tools without success. When restarting SuSE 9.2 64bit, I saw an error message saying something like "... that it is not possible to open some lib.so in kernel source". I reinstalled the kernel and the error message disappeared but I still can not start Qamix nor KAmix. Alsa player is working, I am using KMix instead. When trying to install/upgrade alsa drivers I got the following message ..."cant access...the package is not on media#.It is not a big problem because I still can listen to my music, but I want to know what has happened and how to repair.

foo_bar_foo · 05-31-2005, 01:24 PM

hi, i don't use suse but i did adopt qamix and like it
i think i would try to recompile qamix -- it must be linked with something that got upgraded
of course try starting it from the command line and post exact error or get detals on the error messages you already saw

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an error message saying something like "... that it is not possible to open some lib.so

that just doesn't help

leadazide · 05-31-2005, 02:24 PM

What's wrong with KMix that you want KAmix?
KMix is better, allows you to define hotkeys etc. etc.

riba43 · 06-01-2005, 06:58 AM

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Originally posted by leadazide
What's wrong with KMix that you want KAmix?
KMix is better, allows you to define hotkeys etc. etc.

Thanks a lot. But I had to reinstall SuSE. Now I am using only KMix.

basd · 02-26-2006, 01:11 PM

I wanted to post this in case someone is trying to solve the same problem I am.

KAMix will split the two channels of "capture" if you are trying to record. I had a weird problem -- my second track was picking up my first track, no matter what selections I made in KMIX.

The solution was to run KAMix, which appears to be the same as QAMix. I discovered that the left channel of "capture" was set to "mic" but the right channel was set to "mix" (which is what you want if you intend to record whatever is playing on your sound card).

There seems to be another problem -- Neither KMix or KAMix will split the stereo mic input. (I haven't worked out whether this is a problem, but if you want to record in stereo direct into the computer from a mixer board, you would want to split the inputs. Perhaps the fact that you can split "capture" is sufficient.)

Oh, BTW, ummm..., if your mic has an on/off switch, save yourself some time and remember to turn the switch on, or you will spend a lot of time wondering why there is no input sound. -- WMMSYDHT*)

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