Re: Kmix: mixer cannot be found

[David Raleigh Arnold <dra@openguitar.com>]

On Monday 06 December 2004 08:20 pm, Lian Liming wrote:
> Hi all,
>     I am using kde and my sound card can work under the kde environment.
> I can use xmms or mplayer to play music or video. I can also heard the
> sound of kde startup.
>
>     But when i want to use kmix to control the volume, it reports "mixer
> cannot be found".
>     I don't know what is the relation between sound card and mixer. I
> wonder why my sound card can work well with that mixer cannot be found.
>
>     What is the possible wrong?

Let me try to answer better.  This is just a guess, mind you.

In your KDE control panel:sound, you are informed that KDE monopolizes
your sound system to make its noises, and you can set the release time.
I think that, when you punch up kmix, there is a desktop noise, and
kmix has to wait 15 seconds to load.  It times out.  If you set the
release time to one second, it will succeed after the one second.  It
did for me, so that's my story and I'm sticking to it unless someone
has a better one.  :-) daveA