No compositing and no sound after upgrade to 11.1

[Rrrrawr]

So, I upgraded to 11.1 yesterday and found myself into trouble:

1) it seems that I cannot enable desktop effects in KDE4. It worked perfectly fine on 11.0, but got disabled since upgrade - and when I try to enable it back again trough System settings I get this:

"Failed to activate desktop effects using the given configuration options. Settings will be reverted to their previous values.

Check your X configuration. You may also consider changing advanced options, especially changing the compositing type."

Of course, changing advanced options doesn't help.

I've got NVIDIA 7900GS videocard and driver version 177.82 installed.

2) furthermore, now there is no sound through the speakers, while headphones are fine. Uninstalling pulsaudio didn't help. Speaker test returns no sound.

Additional information on my sound system:

options snd slots=snd-emu10k1,snd-intel8x0
# 75Hn.9jPiZAnlR97:SB Audigy 2 ZS (SB0350)
alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
# 8otl.gwFUdVJGIiF:CK804 AC'97 Audio Controller
alias snd-card-1 snd-intel8x0

alsa-oss-1.0.17-1.37
alsa-firmware-1.0.17-1.42
alsa-utils-1.0.18-6.4
tsalsa-20080914-0.pm.1
alsa-plugins-1.0.18-6.12
alsa-1.0.18-8.7
alsa-tools-1.0.18-1.13

libpulse0-0.9.12-9.6
libasound2-1.0.18-8.7

Linux rsc_49842 2.6.27.7-9-pae #1 SMP +0100 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux


Any help would be very much appreciated.
Sad smiley goes here.

[oldcpu]

Originally Posted by Rrrrawr

So, I upgraded to 11.1 yesterday ....

2) furthermore, now there is no sound through the speakers, while headphones are fine. Uninstalling pulsaudio didn't help. Speaker test returns no sound.

Additional information on my sound system:

options snd slots=snd-emu10k1,snd-intel8x0
# 75Hn.9jPiZAnlR97:SB Audigy 2 ZS (SB0350)
alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
# 8otl.gwFUdVJGIiF:CK804 AC'97 Audio Controller
alias snd-card-1 snd-intel8x0

alsa-oss-1.0.17-1.37
alsa-firmware-1.0.17-1.42
alsa-utils-1.0.18-6.4
tsalsa-20080914-0.pm.1
alsa-plugins-1.0.18-6.12
alsa-1.0.18-8.7
alsa-tools-1.0.18-1.13

libpulse0-0.9.12-9.6
libasound2-1.0.18-8.7

Linux rsc_49842 2.6.27.7-9-pae #1 SMP +0100 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

Please take a look at the guide here, following the advice as appropriate, to see if that helps with your sound:
[Solution] Creative Audigy 1/2 + 11.0 + KDE/GNOME + ALSA - openSUSE Forums

If not, with your PC connected to the Internet, please in a gnome-termainal or kde konsole run this script, and post here the URL that it provides:

/usr/sbin/alsa-info.sh

[Rrrrawr]

Originally Posted by oldcpu

Please take a look at the guide here, following the advice as appropriate, to see if that helps with your sound:
[Solution] Creative Audigy 1/2 + 11.0 + KDE/GNOME + ALSA - openSUSE Forums

If not, with your PC connected to the Internet, please in a gnome-termainal or kde konsole run this script, and post here the URL that it provides:

/usr/sbin/alsa-info.sh

Audigy Analog/digital output jack was enabled already, so it wouldn't help.

As for the link, here it is: http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=02...fce3530e223604

Thank you for your reply!

[oldcpu]

Originally Posted by Rrrrawr

Audigy Analog/digital output jack was enabled already, so it wouldn't help.

As for the link, here it is: http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=02...fce3530e223604

The audigy is a complex sound device, and I have no experience with it. You also have 2 sound devices in your PC (from what I can see), where card 0 is a PCI card, and card 1 is your motherboard sound device. Having two sound devices is a complicating factor, as its also possible your desktop has been inadvertently setup to accept speaker sound from card 1 and not card 0. I do not have two cards on my system, so I can not tell you where to look to change this, if indeed this is a problem (and it may not be a problem).

Reference your mixer, it is complicated, but I high lighted items in red you may wish to consider changing, to see if it has an effect (it may not). Again, I don't know this hardware , so I am only offering speculative possiblities:

!!Amixer output
!!-------------

!!-------Mixer controls for card 0 [Audigy2]
Card hw:0 'Audigy2'/'Audigy 2 ZS [SB0350] (rev.4, serial:0x20021102) at 0xa800, irq 18'
Mixer name : 'SigmaTel STAC9750,51'
Simple mixer control 'Tone',0
Front Left: Playback [off]
Front Right: Playback [off]
Simple mixer control '3D Control - Center',0
Mono: 0 [0%]
Simple mixer control '3D Control - Depth',0
Mono: 0 [0%]
Simple mixer control '3D Control - Switch',0
Mono: Playback [off]
Simple mixer control 'Surround',0
Front Left: Playback 1 [1%] [-39.60dB]
Front Right: Playback 1 [1%] [-39.60dB]
Simple mixer control 'Center',0
Mono: Playback 1 [1%] [-39.60dB]
Simple mixer control 'LFE',0
Mono: Playback 3 [3%] [-38.80dB]
Simple mixer control 'Side',0
Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB]
Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB]
Simple mixer control 'Line',0
Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [on]
Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Line2',0
Front Left: Playback 4 [4%] [-38.40dB] Capture 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB]
Front Right: Playback 4 [4%] [-38.40dB] Capture 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958 Optical',0
Front Left: Playback 3 [3%] [-38.80dB] Capture 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB]
Front Right: Playback 3 [3%] [-38.80dB] Capture 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958 Optical Raw',0
Front Left: Playback [off]
Front Right: Playback [off]
Simple mixer control 'Aux',0
Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [on]
Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Aux2',0
Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB] Capture 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB]
Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB] Capture 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB]
Simple mixer control 'Audigy Analog/Digital Output Jack',0
Mono: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control 'External Amplifier',0
Mono: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control 'HD source Capture',0
Items: 'SPDIF' 'I2S' 'SRC48' 'SRCMulti_SPDIF' 'SRCMulti_I2S' 'CDIF' 'FX' 'AC97'
Item0: 'SPDIF'

• Does the muting of tone, 3-center, 3-depth, 3d-swithed OFF have an adverse affect (it makes sense to me that it should be the way you have it set).
• Does having Playback @ 1%, LFE @ 3%, Side 0%, Line 0% and Line2 4% have any adverse affect ... (I do not know here ... please check)
• You have SPDIF selected, and have IEC958 @ 3% and ICE958 raw OFF. Is that relevant? (just speculation on my part)
• You have External Amplifier ON. Should it be on? I know of cases where switching that ON will block one's internal audio. What happens if you switch that OFF ?
• Should your mixer control 'HD source Capture' be on SPDIF? AC97? (I confess I do not know what that is).

Again, having two sound devices complicates the situation. You could switch the motherboard sound OFF in your BIOS, and then try to setup your audigy sound device again.

It is possible to have both sound devices running in Linux, but I have no hands on experience with that. Sometimes a .asoundrc file is needed to help sort out having two devices, although I have read of users managing to configure both with YaST (although the devices were different than yours).

[bperrotta]

Strange I also have no sound on my desktop now.
But Amarok plays sound perfectly and
alsa sees my sound card. What in the world is going on?

?

[oldcpu]

Originally Posted by bperrotta

Strange I also have no sound on my desktop now.
But Amarok plays sound perfectly and
alsa sees my sound card. What in the world is going on?

What is your configuration now?

Don't confuse system sounds (ie those for your desktop features) with application sounds (ie those for an application such as amarok).

System desktop sounds tend to be desktop specific (ie different controls for kde3, for kde4, for gnome) so if you are now happy with your sound, and if you wish to fix your desktop sounds, you may have better luck starting a new thread with an appropriate title, so that you will obtain the attention of those users with knowledge of system/desktop sounds.