Re: re sound problems

["laymusic" <user=1494@nabble.blu.org>]

 >>>>> "R" == R Hofland <[hidden email]> writes: 

    R> I'm sure there could be a more technical issue at hand, but I 
    R> have found with my Suse installs that the sound drivers somehow 
    R> get corrupted when I add new packages that use the drivers. 

Thanks, that's it.  In the process of solving my problem yesterday, I 
installed a bunch of packages that I vaguely thought might help some 
way.  I removed them all, reinstalled flash, restarted firefox, and 
youtube is playing fine. 

I suppose the virtuous thing would be to reinstall them one-by-one, 
and write a problem report on the package that was responsible.   I 
think I've had the MIDI keyboard for two years without being energetic 
enough to solve the problem of not hearing the sounds (it's a data 
entry device, and it entered the data fine; I just didn't have audio 
feedback).  So I don't know if I"m going to be energetic enough to 
screw my system up again for the sake of writing a bug report. 

If anyone's curious, the list of packages was: 

   kaconnect jack jackd rosegarden4 lmms vkeybd 

vkeybd was actually some use, in demonstrating that it was possible to 
connect *something* to a synthesizer.  Jackd is what the conventional 
wisdom says should have solved my problem, but I never got it to 
connect the keyboard to the synth, whereas aconnect eventually did 
exactly what it was supposed to.   

Based on the general flakiness factor, I suspect jackd of being what 
screwed flash up, since it seemed to ignore quite a number of 
conventions for well-behaved programs. 

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