Kmix and Sound minihowto for linux. (I am using ubuntu 7.10 and KDE)  :-)                                            Back to Main Page

This is a very short version, and if you want to know more, go to the Internet etc.

This howto is without any guarantee, and you may use it on your own responsibility only.

There may be errors, but I do not want to use too much time to  write this minihowto.

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This is a minihowto about how to get sound working on a linux distribution.

As I am not an expert I will just show how my system is set up, so it works very well.

First you will have to choose: "K-menu - Multimedia - KMix" - which will bring the Kmix icon onto the panel (see below)



Left click on the blue Kmixer icon (see above), and drag the volume slider into maximum position and click with the left mouse curson to make the small green

"eye icon" light green - see below



Now right click on the blue Kmix icon and choose "Select Master Channel.."  - and choose "Master" - OK (see below)



Then again right click on the blue Kmix icon and this time choose "Show Mixer Window" (see above)

When the KMix "Show Mixer Window" setup dialog opens make the settings as shown below.

You will note that there are three tab dialogs: "Output", "Input" and "Switches" (marked with black) and this is how my KMix has been set up - "lightgreen", "pink"

and "yellow" color means "on"  - also drag all the sliders to top position (max) - see below




Besides this you should also go to "K-menu - Settings - Sound & Multimedia - Sound System" and set up your system - below I will show how my sound settings

here are set up:

"K-menu - Settings - Sound & Multimedia - Sound System - General" - tab circled with black color (see below)



"K-menu - Settings - Sound & Multimedia - Sound System - Hardware" - tab circled with black color (see below)





12/2007