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   grinch to bad sector   
   Re: TW/Yast: no test sound out of pci so   
   25 Nov 18 16:01:48   
   
   From: grinch@somewhere.com   
      
   Good luck with it ,I'm not much help. I had issues with TW and NFS it   
   worked on leap but not on TW on the same hardware.   
      
   I used a live version to proves that TW was the problem   
      
      
   On 25/11/2018 14:35, bad sector wrote:   
   > On 2018-11-24 9:25 a.m., grinch wrote:   
   >> On 22/11/2018 00:50, bad sector wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> Mobo: Asus X-hair-IV   
   >>> Onboard sound: NOT configured, M4A89GTD as per Yast   
   >>> Card-0=PCI: Virtuoso 100 (Xonar Esence STX-II)   
   >>> Card-1=Onboard HDMI: GK107   
   >>>   
   >>> When I open the pulse Vol control to set oputput to Analog Spkr I   
   >>> hear the clicks so the card works, the speakers work, TW IS using it   
   >>> all. But when I select in the Yast diaog "PLay Test Sound" I don't   
   >>> get one.   
   >>>   
   >> How about running a live version of leap 15 and try to get the sound   
   >> card working on that. If that works,then the problem lies with TW.   
   >   
   > I did, i'm on my laptop right now but from memory: running the live kde   
   > flavour of Leap-15 I first of all configured (enabled) only the pci   
   > soundcard. In the pulse volume dialog I was NOT able to select headset   
   > or speakers while Digital Duplex was ON, the choice doesn't appear. To   
   > make that selection one first has to select Analog, then select speakers   
   > or headset, and then select Digital Duplex. The Yast test sound THEN did   
   > work if i remember correctly. This is already a roundabout way of doing   
   > things but at least it works. On my desktop TW I could not get yast to   
   > produce the test sound at all, regardless of what I tried. The card does   
   > work with Jack, Hydrogen, Rosegarden, ZynAddSubFX and Audacity (my   
   > primary music apps) albeit somewhat unpredictably.   
   >   
   > By way of sidebars there are a couple of other isues that don't meet   
   > with my 'approval' :-)   
   >   
   > The pulse dialog and too many others like it are 'paging' the choices   
   > when there is absolutely more than enough room on the deskptop to show   
   > all of them on one page *three times over*. Let's see an end of this   
   > 'everything must look like it would on an iphone' stuff.   
   >   
   > Second, alas again from memmory, my sound card in this case although   
   > i've seen the prob before with other hardware too, goes by almost as   
   > many names as there are linux distros. The various 'ls' utis show one,   
   > yast another, and Audacity for ezxamplre another still. This lack of   
   > standard doesn't make it easy to find one's way.   
   >   
   > All "I" wanna do is work on my music.   
   >   
      
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