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From: Jason Smith (jason_smith_18_at_sfu.ca)
Date: Wed Oct 05 2022 - 15:20:09 CDT

Is your audio running through gpu at all, rather than the analog outputs on your motherboard? Perhaps a graphics driver issue?

Cheers,

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Jason Smith
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Robert N. Young Lab, Simon Fraser University
8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC, V5A-1S6
Canada

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From: owner-vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu <owner-vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu> on behalf of John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, 5 October 2022 10:58:43 AM
To: Strahs, Dr. Daniel Bernard
Cc: vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu
Subject: Re: vmd-l: VMD disables audio?

Hi,
  VMD presently does NOTHING with audio whatsoever.
If something is happening with your audio volume when you run VMD,
then I expect that perhaps you've got something external running
as part of your .vmdrc/vmd.rc startup that might be affecting it,
though I personally have no idea what that could be!

In the past 24 years, nobody else has reported something like this.
It doesn't happen on any of my systems, so I don't have any immediate
advice to offer.

Maybe it would be worth watching in a process viewer and seeing whether
any other app(s) gets launched when VMD starts?

Best,
  John

On Wed, Oct 05, 2022 at 04:50:17PM +0000, Strahs, Dr. Daniel Bernard wrote:
> Hello all:
> A silly question, but all my VMD installations turn down the audio volume
> when they initialize. Since audio cues alert to email, meetings etc, this
> can be a bit problematic. I usually remember to turn the audio up after
> VMD initializes, but I sometimes forget and then I'm left wondering why
> nothing's making noise before I remember "Oh, yes, VMD".
> I've looked for some command that executes this, but the words "audio" or
> "sound" are not found in the manual or initialization scripts, and I can
> only find a few descriptions of audio in the source code.
> This is not urgent, but I'm puzzled and somewhat curious.
> Thanks!
> Dan Strahs
> Biology Department, NYC campus
> Pace University 

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