[kde-linux] KDE resetting microphone setting upon login

[Bogus Zaba]

On 01/05/12 18:21, Duncan wrote:
> Mark Knecht posted on Tue, 01 May 2012 09:03:22 -0700 as excerpted:
>
>> I misunderstood your suggestion originally. To me KDE is a big
>> monolithic thing, a behemoth the parts of which are not to be trifled
>> with by me. That said the problem (at least initially) is kmix. I did an
>> emerge -C kmix from the console and then started KDE. All microphone
>> settings appear to be OK.
> Good to see my suspicions were correct. =:^)  As for kde being big/
> monolithic, yeah, that's an easy enough thought pattern to get into.  But
> it doesn't tend to help troubleshooting, and it's useful to remember that
> there's a bunch of different developers each with their individual
> thoughts and ideas working on kde too, sometimes.  That's actually the
> bit I have more trouble with, as it's very easy to take one kde-dev's
> thoughts on something and pin them on kde as a whole, but it doesn't
> necessarily work that way.
>
>> The next tests will be to exit KDE, come back in again, make sure things
>> are ok, maybe emerge kmix again, see if it's messed up again, etc. I'll
>> do that later today after the market closes. Right now I'm in the middle
>> of a bunch of trades.
> AFAIK there's an option somewhere, that sets whether kmix resets the
> volume on kde startup, or not.  But as I said, it has been awhile since I
> had it installed, and of course it's possible they changed it along the
> line, too, which might explain why it started working differently for you.
>
>> QUESTION: Might you be able to suggest any other Open Source mixer to
>> replace kmix? I find I need a desktop mixer due to my work in VMs all
>> day long where every app and every machine has different volume levels.
> Personally, alsamixer has worked well for me, for years.  I can run it in
> a konsole window when in kde, or from a VT when I'm not in X, which is
> nice, and I actually find it clearer to deal with than kmix in some ways,
> tho I liked kmix for its ability to have one (configurable) control set
> as master, and being able to just pop that up from the tray, when
> needed.  But whenever I want to actually see what controls are available
> and change the more complex options or adjust more than one channel, I
> tend to prefer alsamixer.
>
> Since I like alsamixer, it works equally well in a VT or a terminal
> window, and it tends to be installed wherever alsa is used, which is
> pretty much everywhere on Linux, I really haven't had much need to go
> looking for anything else.  Of course I know about kmix as part of kde,
> but other than that, I haven't needed to look, so I haven't.
>
I recently came across alsamixergui which sounds like it might be a 
replacement for kmix. I was thinking of installing it, but there are 
dependencies on gnome libraries which I tend to avoid on mhy KDE 
systems. If Kmix is causing problems for you though, you could look into 
alsamixergui I guess.