Alsa Always Failing. The Pcm Slider Won't Work.

I have intel ICH7 card which was working very fine in 10.2 and 10.3 as well as in opensuse11 beta 3. it was working better in beta 10.3 as i could use the sliders to control 3 (2.1) speakers of my laptop now. But after upgrade to opensuse11RC1 my sound stopped working properly. I have to control my sound with Front slider and LFE slider and the PCM slider wont work at all. I reinstalled the fresh copy of RC11 but have the same problem again. the kde login music sounds and then the sound stops working if i try to play any music player, it says the hardware might be used by other programs. Phonon gives message about alsa device failed and switching to other device(esound) and then again esound failed switiching to other..... after i do :
# rcalsasound restart

i can get sound but still the PCM slider wont work . cannot use keytouch. I have to manually raise and lower both sliders to get desirable sound.

Any ideas?

Solved:

found solution from irc :

rename /etc/asound-pulse.conf

to

/etc/alsa-pulse.conf

Solved:
found solution from irc :
rename /etc/asound-pulse.conf
to
/etc/alsa-pulse.conf[/b]

Bizzarre. THANKS for sharing your solution.

How did you stumble across that? I confess I can (inappropriately) be cynical at times, when trying to understand solutions to problems.

Are you certain it was the renaming of "asound-pulse.conf" to "alsa-pulse.conf" that did the 'trick', or could it have just been the removal of "asound-pulse.conf"? What happens if you rename alsa-pulse.conf to alsa-pulse.conf.bak and do not have a asound-pulse.conf ?

i will try that too....... and tell you...... someone in the irc just told me to rename /etc/alsa-pulse,conf

when i take a look at that folder, i found asound-pulse,conf,, so as i was told to rename, i thought that must be the file to be renamed, i renamed it and it worked. i think it creates a the "pulsa" virtual device....??? it says so.........

i will try that too....... and tell you...... someone in the irc just told me to rename /etc/alsa-pulse,conf

when i take a look at that folder, i found asound-pulse,conf,, so as i was told to rename, i thought that must be the file to be renamed, i renamed it and it worked. i think it creates a the "pulsa" virtual device....??? it says so.........
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I just removed ALL the pulse audio stuff, it fixed ALL my sound problems

I just removed ALL the pulse audio stuff, it fixed ALL my sound problems [/b]

Thanks for sharing your solution.

I think there are some hiccups with the introduction of pulse-audio in 11.0. Having stated that, pulse-audio is "here to stay", at least for 11.0, and likely longer, ... so it does behoove all of us to eventually figure it out. .... I haven't experienced problems (with audio) with my test PC setup in 11.0 Beta2, Beta3, nor RC1 (I did have major audio problems with 11.0 alpha-x, but I had so many other problems the the "alpha" release that I never pursued a fix). Hence I can't reproduce the problems, and I must instead watch carefully to various users posts.

I think (hope) a number of us will be taking notes wrt various users audio problems with "pulse-audio", and hopefully we will sort it such that removal of pulse-audio is not the fix, but rather we will know of some "configuration tweak". Unfortunately I'm not there yet with my knowledge ... and I think many others are in the same boat as me (i.e. in a "learning mode").
http://en.opensuse.org/Pulseaudio