Re: kwintv keeps sound on in suse 8.2

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On Sunday 17 August 2003 11:26, conan wrote:
> I was curious if you are able to capture the screen when you are watching
> tv using your wintv card? Have you tried using the mainactor program that
> comes with suse to edit the the capture screen? I am curious about this
> because if you can maybe I will get a win tv card.
> I finally see what my problem is with sound. After I watch tv I mute the
> sound. When I reboot my computer the tv sound comes at the login screen.
> The arts sound server cannot load. I am getting error messages saying this.
> I did not see this before. I might have to reinstall suse again to get rid
> of this problem.
> I did test the volume in the yast control center and the sound is repeating
> and it sounds terrible. I can see that something is interfering with it. I
> have set for auto detect in the KDE control for the sound. I did try OSS
> and got the same results. I will try Alsa also but I am sure I will get the
> same results. Also when it does play sounds for kde it plays the same sound
> ten times in a row!
> I do have a sound card on my motherboard but it is turn off in the bios.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Darwin
>
> On Sunday 17 August 2003 00:52, you wrote:
> > Both my (kids) AIW/Rage128 and my WinTV cards are 2-3 years old, and I
> > have not seen the AIW-VE you have, so perhaps my review is out of date.
> > I'm a Bcast engineer, tho, and have a good eye for resolution and chroma
> > noise, and of my two cards, the ATI wins handily.
> >
> > Sounds like you have not set up your sound card properly.  The main
> > reason I did not stick with KDE in SuSE8.1 was the inability to have 2
> > sound cards configured in the KDE Control Center.  YAST2 would have no
> > problem, but then KDE would refuse to allow the second card.  When I
> > upgaded to 8.2, I was already an ICEWM convert.
> >
> > Have you done the sound setup in the KDE Control Center?  If not, try
> > that, and it may restore the sounds to your KDE games.  There is an
> > option in there to use ALSA or OSS or Autodetect.  Auto works well on
> > all 3 pc's here, but you might try to force Alsa mode.  Another thing,
> > be sure in either yast or Control Center to set up (test) the card
> > volume.
> >
> > I'm surprised the setup of 8.2 failed to set you up.  I've done a dozen
> > both upgrades and virgin installs, and the only headache I had was my
> > instance with two cards onboard.
> >
> > Ah... do you perhaps have an on-board sound chip plus your soundblaster
> > card?  Be sure to defeat the on-board chip in your BIOS settings.
> >
> > On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 21:11, conan wrote:
> > > Thanks for the info. I took out my ati tv card and now I put it back in
> > > after you said the audio for the tv application does not have any
> > > bearing on anything else. If I use it and when I finish I will just
> > > mute it. I use kwintv and have not tried the other two.
> > > That is too bad that your win-tv card is not better than the ati one.
> > > I have heard about icewm window manager. I am pretty new to linux and
> > > only tried kde.
> > > I am getting no sound for any of the games I try. No sound for anything
> > > except for the tv and my cd-roms when I put in a audio cd. You would
> > > not why ? I was using kmix. I tried using gamix. There are a lot of
> > > selections. It is really long.
> > > I have a sound blaster live 5.1 card. I have an AMD 2200 cpu.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > darwin
> > >
> > > On Friday 15 August 2003 23:24, you wrote:
> > > > First, I do not think it is your hardware.  I am confused somewhat. 
> > > > If you mute the audio in the xawtv or motv application, it should not
> > > > have ANY bearing on the sound levels of your game audio applications,
> > > > CD playing, etc.  They are different paths through the sound card. 
> > > > What mixer are you using... gamix works best for me.
> > > >
> > > > I must admit, I find sound config in KDE extremely confusing, and for
> > > > that and other reasons, I typically live in the icewm world...<};-)
> > > > Have you tried using one of the other window managers?
> > > >
> > > > As for image quality, I found the ATI AIW (rage128) to be better than
> > > > this Haupagge Win-TV.  The resolution either line or air signal was
> > > > better on the ATI tuner.  Setup of the ATI until SuSE8.2 was always a
> > > > nightmare, but the Win-TV is totally supported, way back to the 6.x
> > > > days.  In 8.2, both installed flawlessly for me.
> > > >
> > > > You should post a better detail of your system, and then maybe some
> > > > of the GURUs will kick in and help you.
> > > >
> > > > Good luck...
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 19:29, darwin wrote:
> > > > > Maybe I should get rid of tv card and try the Haupage WinTV. Do you
> > > > > get a pretty good picture? I have tried to mute the TV sound but
> > > > > when I do that it interferes with the sound in general. If I try to
> > > > > play a game the sound is muffled. Also it is getting worse. I tried
> > > > > deleting the tv card and reinstalling the card but my sound is mess
> > > > > up. When I exit KDE I hear the exit sound a hundred times and it
> > > > > plays until the log in screen displays. This is becoming a
> > > > > nightmare!.
> > > > >
> > > > > Darwin
> > > > >
> > > > > On Friday 15 August 2003 18:45, you wrote:
> > > > > > Did not have that problem with rage all-in-wonder, but now kids
> > > > > > have that, and I have radeon 9700 and use Haupage WinTV.  No
> > > > > > problem there either, BUT, if I use Kradio and then 'X' the
> > > > > > window instead of "quit" the application, the radio will play
> > > > > > happily merrily on by itself.  (no interface or anything, have to
> > > > > > relaunch Kradio and properly "quit" to turn the sound off.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I'm thinking a missed signal between "X" and "KDE", but haven't
> > > > > > worried about it.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Suggest until someone gives you the solution, you might "mute"
> > > > > > the TV audio BEFORE you exit the program.  At least you would not
> > > > > > hear it then. Tom
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 14:09, darwin Meredith wrote:
> > > > > > > I have an all-in-wonder ve tv card installed. I use
> > > > > > > kwintv to watch tv on it. I can use it in suse 8.2 and
> > > > > > > it works fine except when I exit and the sound does not
> > > > > > > turn off. I know I probably have a wintv card and it is
> > > > > > > not the fault of kwintv or suse. I like to keep on
> > > > > > > using it but how do I control the sound. I can turn
> > > > > > > down the line-in volume but it will effect the volume
> > > > > > > for the whole system. If I play a game I will barely be
> > > > > > > able to hear it. I could delete my sound card and
> > > > > > > re-istall it but there must be a better way like
> > > > > > > reconfiguring alsa.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Darwin
> > > > > > >
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