[ale] audio blues

[kilpatms at gmail.com (Sean Kilpatrick)]

Loaded up a live CD of CentOS/KDE.

Couldn't even get the system bell to make a sound.  CD does not load
ALSA.

So, back to Square One.  Downloaded Amarok, and tried that. 99% works.
Still some very minor cracks and pops, but I easily can tell the
difference between the clarinet and the oboe.  I have no clue why other
audio players, including KMix, Dragon Player, and VLC media player
produce crappy sound while Amarok seems to work. I kinda assumed that
underneath the various GUIs they were all using the same libraries.

Whatever.

Problem seems to be solved -- without needing yet another piece of
hardware.

Sean

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On Sun, 2014-09-07 at 11:42 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On 09/07/2014 11:31 AM, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
>  If it might be a software problem, any clues on how to tweek the
> alsa.conf file would be appreciated. I looked at it but couldn't make
> much sense out of it. If another piece of software might do a better job
> than ALSA, I'm willing to try it.
> 
> maybe you could boot a LiveCD and see if it still does it...
> 
>