no sound on new Suse 11.1 ?

[sven25]

Hello all,

i just installed Suse 11.1 and i was hoping that the sound problem was solved by now, but unfortunatly its not.
SO please help me, i got an Acer Aspire 6920G with a ALC889 Sound Card.

Please give me easy step by step what to do, to get sound!

Many thanks to all of you in advance!

Sven

[hcvv]

Did you do what is mentioned here: Restricted Formats/11.1 - openSUSE-Community?

When yes, blame yourself for not telling us

[oldcpu]

Originally Posted by sven25

i just installed Suse 11.1 and i was hoping that the sound problem was solved by now, but unfortunatly its not.
SO please help me, i got an Acer Aspire 6920G with a ALC889 Sound Card.

Please give me easy step by step what to do, to get sound!

What application(s), are you using as a criteria to state that your sound is not working?

To test if your sound is working, I recommend you try copy and pasting the following into a gnome-terminal or a kde konsole:

speaker-test -Dplug:front -c2 -l5 -twav

you should hear a lady's voice saying "front-left", "front-right" five times. Note Linux is case sensitive.

If that does not work, please try a shorter form version:

speaker-test -c2 -l5 -twav

If you hear sound (ie if you hear the lady's voice), then please post here, let us know this fact, and explain more as to what your sound problem might be.

If your sound still does not work with those tests, can you run a script and some commands for me to provide more information? With your PC connected to the internet copy and paste the following into a gnome-terminal or konsole:

/usr/sbin/alsa-info.sh

When the script completes it will pass you a URL. Please post that URL here.

Also, please copy and paste the following into a gnome-terminal or konsole and post the output here.

rpm -qa | grep alsa
rpm -qa | grep pulse
rpm -q libasound2
uname -a
cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound

Finally, are you using KDE-3.5.10 ? KDE-4.1.3 ? or Gnome ?

Based on that data, I may be able to provide a recommendation.

[qbproger]

I don't mean to hijack the thread (If I should create a new thread let me know), but I have a similar issue. I don't hear the sound effects of various desktop actions in KDE4.

When I ran this command:

speaker-test -Dplug:front -c2 -l5 -twav

I heard "front left" and "front right"

any ideas why I wouldn't hear the desktop sound effects?

Here is the URL requested:
http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=eb...40ac7d0019bd59

rpm -qa | grep alsa
alsa-plugins-1.0.18-6.12
alsa-oss-1.0.17-1.37
alsa-plugins-pulse-1.0.18-6.12
alsa-1.0.18-8.7
java-1_6_0-sun-alsa-1.6.0.u7-20.4
alsa-utils-1.0.18-6.4


rpm -qa | grep pulse
pulseaudio-utils-0.9.12-9.6
pulseaudio-esound-compat-0.9.12-9.6
pulseaudio-module-lirc-0.9.12-9.6
alsa-plugins-pulse-1.0.18-6.12
libxine1-pulse-1.1.15-20.8
pulseaudio-module-jack-0.9.12-9.6
libpulse-mainloop-glib0-0.9.12-9.6
pulseaudio-0.9.12-9.6
pulseaudio-module-zeroconf-0.9.12-9.6
pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-0.9.12-9.6
libpulse0-0.9.12-9.6
libpulsecore4-0.9.12-9.6
libpulse-browse0-0.9.12-9.6
pulseaudio-module-x11-0.9.12-9.6


rpm -q libasound2
libasound2-1.0.18-8.7


uname -a
Linux linux-2wdc 2.6.27.7-9-pae #1 SMP 2008-12-04 18:10:04 +0100 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux


cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound

options snd slots=snd-intel8x0
# H0_h.jvTS_cVxLCC:nForce2 AC97 Audio Controler (MCP)
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0

Thanks
qb

[snatzer]

I also had sound problems in KDE4, but amarok and others worked. Solution: uninstalled everything related to pulseaudio (except libpulse because of some dependency problems), after reboot KDE4 sounds worked and amarok also continued to work. I'm sure there is some other solution as well.

[qbproger]

Originally Posted by snatzer

I also had sound problems in KDE4, but amarok and others worked. Solution: uninstalled everything related to pulseaudio (except libpulse because of some dependency problems), after reboot KDE4 sounds worked and amarok also continued to work. I'm sure there is some other solution as well.

Yea, I have a similar issue. My KDE4 sounds don't work, but flash videos have sound (haven't tested amarok yet).

[coomac]

Iirc flash player uses gstreamer whereas most applications use the default sound server, which in this case is pulse audio. Amarok would work if it was using the gstreamer backend.

I haven't installed 11.1 final, but I had been using the betas and rc on my production system and never encountered a problem with pulse audio. Strange that the issue would appear in GM.

You may be able to get the sound working if you change the priority of the sound devices under KDE system settings > Sound.

[qbproger]

Originally Posted by coomac

Iirc flash player uses gstreamer whereas most applications use the default sound server, which in this case is pulse audio. Amarok would work if it was using the gstreamer backend.

I haven't installed 11.1 final, but I had been using the betas and rc on my production system and never encountered a problem with pulse audio. Strange that the issue would appear in GM.

You may be able to get the sound working if you change the priority of the sound devices under KDE system settings > Sound.

Changing the priority didn't seem to have any effect. I just did a restart and noticed I hear part of the startup sound (it cuts off a bit early), but I don't hear any other system notification type sounds.

I just checked, and Amarok seems to work. Is there another audio utility that would be a good test (that I could set the playback engine in)?

[ziovanja]

Dear oldcpu,

what if I get the following stuff when testing the sound system as you told sven25?

abulafia:~ # speaker-test -c2 -l5 -twav
speaker-test 1.0.18
Playback device is default
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 2 channels
WAV file(s)
ALSA lib pulse.c:272:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Connection refused

Thank you in advance for your help

P.S.: Just in case you need it, here is what you asked sven25:

abulafia:~ # rpm -qa | grep alsa
alsa-1.0.18-8.9
alsa-plugins-1.0.18-6.13
alsa-utils-1.0.18-6.4
tsalsa-20080914-0.pm.1
alsa-oss-1.0.17-1.43
alsa-tools-1.0.18-1.16
alsa-oss-32bit-1.0.17-1.37
alsa-plugins-pulse-1.0.18-6.13
alsa-firmware-1.0.17-1.42
abulafia:~ # rpm -qa | grep pulse
libpulse-mainloop-glib0-0.9.12-9.5
pulseaudio-utils-0.9.12-9.5
libpulse0-0.9.12-9.5
libpulse-browse0-0.9.12-9.5
libpulsecore4-0.9.12-9.5
pulseaudio-0.9.12-9.5
alsa-plugins-pulse-1.0.18-6.13
abulafia:~ # rpm -q libasound2
libasound2-1.0.18-8.9
abulafia:~ # uname -a
Linux abulafia 2.6.27.7-9-default #1 SMP 2008-12-04 18:10:04 +0100 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
abulafia:~ # cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound
options snd slots=snd-hda-intel,snd-hda-intel
# 5Dex.DVex+nmP8+5:SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
# NXNs.HS4OKn_IlZ0:RV620 Audio device [Radeon HD 34xx Series]
alias snd-card-1 snd-hda-intel

P.S.(2): I'm using KDE 3.5

[oldcpu]

Originally Posted by ziovanja

what if I get the following stuff when testing the sound system as you told sven25?

I also need the output URL from running the script (when your PC is connected to the internet):

/usr/sbin/alsa-info.sh

that will give you a URL. Please post that here. Also, what are the symptoms of your problem? No sound at all? How about if you plug in external headpones? Do you have sound there?