Hello-
I have a strange issue here- at least, it's strange to me.
I've been migrating all of my home computers to openSUSE for the last two years or so, and this weekend I decided to take a deep breath and dump Windows 7 from my best machine. I didn't anticipate any problems, but there is one.
So, I've got a custom built i5 with 16gb of RAM and a couple of solid-state drives. I had it built with the idea of doing design work at home, but the reality is that after staring at it all day at work, I'm not very interested in loading up Solidworks anymore, and I never use it for the original intent. Instead, it's a pretty spiffy media machine with a 27" monitor and BOSE speakers. Windows started glitching out and told me that I wasn't allowed to delete .avi files from drive, and I wasn't having it, so I decided to drop Windows and run openSUSE here as well. That makes the eighth and last computer in the house to make the switch, and I'm liking it- except for one thing.
The volume control is messed up. It jumps up and down erratically, and it causes popping when listening to music. It's not terrible with voices or sound effects, but it really messes with music, and that's a big part of what I use this machine for. This is a new install of openSUSE 12.3, essentially untouched and ready for tweaking. I started with 12.2 because that was the disk I already had, and ran an update first thing.
The motherboard is an Intel DH67BL, with integrated sound that SUSE is reading as NVIDIA audio, and I have an ASUS GeForce GTX 650 for video. I'm willing to give up CAD on this machine, and go all Linux for my household, but the irritating popping audio and the constant flashing volume pop-up at the top of the screen is more or less a deal-breaker- I didn't pay a hundred bucks for speakers so that they could sound like garbage. It's frustrating, because I've never seen this before, and it seems like such a basic thing. Not sure what way to lean here, because Windows' Real-Tec Audio sucks too, with all kinds of random problems like deciding that I would prefer to hear my music as it would sound inside a sewer pipe without asking me- but at least there, I have the option to change it back.
So, I'm hoping someone has a fix here. I've got very high regard for the openSUSE OS, enough to recommend and have installed it on better than a dozen computers this year, and this is the first time it has given me any real trouble. I'm hoping I can fix it quick and forget it ever happened....
Thanks in advance!
I have a strange issue here- at least, it's strange to me.
I've been migrating all of my home computers to openSUSE for the last two years or so, and this weekend I decided to take a deep breath and dump Windows 7 from my best machine. I didn't anticipate any problems, but there is one.
So, I've got a custom built i5 with 16gb of RAM and a couple of solid-state drives. I had it built with the idea of doing design work at home, but the reality is that after staring at it all day at work, I'm not very interested in loading up Solidworks anymore, and I never use it for the original intent. Instead, it's a pretty spiffy media machine with a 27" monitor and BOSE speakers. Windows started glitching out and told me that I wasn't allowed to delete .avi files from drive, and I wasn't having it, so I decided to drop Windows and run openSUSE here as well. That makes the eighth and last computer in the house to make the switch, and I'm liking it- except for one thing.
The volume control is messed up. It jumps up and down erratically, and it causes popping when listening to music. It's not terrible with voices or sound effects, but it really messes with music, and that's a big part of what I use this machine for. This is a new install of openSUSE 12.3, essentially untouched and ready for tweaking. I started with 12.2 because that was the disk I already had, and ran an update first thing.
The motherboard is an Intel DH67BL, with integrated sound that SUSE is reading as NVIDIA audio, and I have an ASUS GeForce GTX 650 for video. I'm willing to give up CAD on this machine, and go all Linux for my household, but the irritating popping audio and the constant flashing volume pop-up at the top of the screen is more or less a deal-breaker- I didn't pay a hundred bucks for speakers so that they could sound like garbage. It's frustrating, because I've never seen this before, and it seems like such a basic thing. Not sure what way to lean here, because Windows' Real-Tec Audio sucks too, with all kinds of random problems like deciding that I would prefer to hear my music as it would sound inside a sewer pipe without asking me- but at least there, I have the option to change it back.
So, I'm hoping someone has a fix here. I've got very high regard for the openSUSE OS, enough to recommend and have installed it on better than a dozen computers this year, and this is the first time it has given me any real trouble. I'm hoping I can fix it quick and forget it ever happened....
Thanks in advance!