[kde-doc-english] Audio and Video Settings

[Hugh McKeith]

Hello;
I really do appreciate the 'help' information that is provided.  However I find 
it very vague and over simplified and really does not provide any examples to 
try, or suggestions for troubleshooting.

I am fairly new to Linux and have already figured out all that you have 
provided in the 'help' for sound and video.  The problem that I have had since 
the first day that I tried Linux, almost twenty years ago, is that for some 
very strange and seemingly unanswerable reason, only ONE channel of sound is 
output.

I looked on line at all the many sites that offer assistance with this issue, 
and in most responses it is never explained why this is a problem, or how to 
fix it.  I did come across several articles that advised that the sound was 
muted during the writing of the software, and one needed to 'FIND' where that 
was in system files and then turn sound on. This is more or less like someone 
giving you a brand new Ferrari and then telling you that you need to now 
search anywhere and every where to 'find' the keys before you are able to drive 
it.

I am a university graduate and am used to doing research in many different 
areas.  However in this instance there is not enough information given to the 
basic general user of LINUX software, to even think of starting research on 
the subject without first learning how to program using linux code.  I do not 
have time or energy to learn a new 'language' just so that I can go to my 
computer, turn it on and get my email, or listen to music.

Lets be a little more realistic with release of software so that it actually 
will detect and be plug and play ready, as all new releases of Linux suggest.

Thanks,

Hugh