[SOLVED] How to switch from pulseaudio to plain alsa

[doktor5000]

Hi all,
Pulseudio clobbers kmix:Only volume can be changed,no bass or treble control or anything else.
Other distro's I tried allow a choice.
Apparently in Mageia this choice is not available,pulseaudio or no sound.
My box has a Soundblaster emu10k soundcard with a lot of controls.
I don't mind using pulseaudio provided it allows kmix to show all the controls.
Is there a way to either make pulseaudio reinstate these controls or go to alsa?
Thanks in advance for a solution.
Gerard.

[doktor5000]

You can disable pulseaudio via MCC: http://doc.mageia.org/mcc/4/en/content/draksound.html

[gerard82]

Hi doctor5000,
Thanks for the quick reply.
I reinstated pulseaudio.
I only get 2 buttons on the sound configuration window.
The top says "reinitialize audiomixer to standard values" (translated from dutch).
The 2nd one says "troubleshoot".
When I click the first,sound from a youtube movie is stopped even though the sliders are not zeroed nor muted.
The second one takes me to a new window with a spiel about pulseaudio and a link to a wiki.
Neither carry a solution to my problem.

Maybe what's in your response is for mageia 3?
Gerard.

[ghmitch]

Gerard, Have you tried installing qastools? The qas mixer should give you direct access to the hardware even with pulse running.

[gerard82]

Gerard, Have you tried installing qastools? The qas mixer should give you direct access to the hardware even with pulse running.

Just what the doctor ordered ghmitch!
Took me a while to figure it out but got it working fine.
Thanks a lot,
Gerard.

[doktor5000]

Please mark the thread accordingly by editing the topic of the first post and prefix it by [SOLVED], thanks

[gerard82]

I tried.Apparently the thread title is too long.
I can only enter 1 character.
Sorry,
Gerard.

[doktor5000]

I've edited it - although this thread is primarily about getting your mixer controls to work ...