James' openSUSE Bash Scripting (and other things) Blog - Your Comments are Welcome!

I have updated the S.T.A.R.T. bash script (works with openSUSE 12.2) with five more PulseAudio checks and the ability to start the terminal based Alsa Mixer. S.T.A.R.T. now includes some 16 tests you can use in helping you troubleshoot audio problems while using openSUSE. S.T.A.R.T. will create KDE icons for you in your Desktop and in the Applications menu, so look for it there. Settings for icon creation have been added to the top of the bash script which are easy to modify if you wish to do so.

In order to use S.T.A.R.T, copy and past the following text from SUSE Paste into your favorite text editor using the download button on the top right.

S.T.A.R.T. - SuSE Terminal Audio Reporting Tool - Version 1.15

Then save the text as the file called start in your local ~/bin folder (/home/yourname/bin/start). You can also use the wget command in a terminal session to download start if you like (You must delete or remove the old version first):

Code:

rm ~/bin/start

Code:

wget -nc http://paste.opensuse.org/view/download/54025786 -O ~/bin/start

In order to be able to run start, you must mark it executable. Open a terminal session and run the following command:

Code:

chmod +x ~/bin/start

It is even possible to string all three of these commands together as one. Copy the following command, open up a terminal session, paste it in and press enter:

Code:

rm ~/bin/start ; wget -nc http://paste.opensuse.org/view/download/54025786 -O ~/bin/start ; chmod +x ~/bin/start

Then to use start, open up a terminal session and run the following command:

Code:

start

S.T.A.R.T. can be used to enable or disable PulseAudio. It is HIGHLY recommended you disable PulseAudio instead of uninstalling it, if you want to see if your audio problem is affected by using PulseAudio. As always, I want to hear any suggestions for the S.T.A.R.T. bash script that you may have.

Thank You,

Blogs: asroot : Bash : Packet Filter : C.F.U. : GPU's : fewrup : F.S.M. : H.I. : nVIDIA : LNVHW : N.S.F. : S.A.K.C. : MMCHECK
S.A.S.I. : S.C.L.U. : S.G.T.B. : S.K.I.M. : S.L.A.V.E. : S.L.R.C. : S.T.A.R.T. : S.U.F.F. : SYSEdit : systemd : YaST Power