sound does not mute

[newidforu]

Hi

I have been using Ubuntu with gnome for the last 2 months. I decided to give other distros a try and installed OpenSuse 11.1 with KDE last night. I love the interface but I am having trouble with audio. I have a realtek audio card which was wrongly identified as intel by OpenSuse. My audio works fine but I cannot mute it. I also have a realtek rtl8187b wifi card which works on Opensuse but the signal strength is weak. It also takes a very long time to refresh the networks list.
Thanks for helping me!

[buckesfeld]

* newidforu wrote, On 07/01/2009 07:16 PM:
> Hi
>
> I have been using Ubuntu with gnome for the last 2 months. I decided to
> give other distros a try and installed OpenSuse 11.1 with KDE last
> night. I love the interface but I am having trouble with audio. I have a
> realtek audio card which was wrongly identified as intel by OpenSuse. My
> audio works fine but I cannot mute it.

Make sure you have selected the correct master channel for the mixer (right click the mixer icon in the tray to change the master channel)

> I also have a realtek rtl8187b
> wifi card which works on Opensuse but the signal strength is weak. It
> also takes a very long time to refresh the networks list.

Please check the Wifi stickies in the networking/wireless subforum and post this problem as a seperate post there if the problem still exists.

Uwe

[newidforu]

Thanks, I have just one more question. The system seems a little sluggish to me. Is this because of KDE or is OpenSuse a little slow? I had compiz enabled on gnome in ubuntu and my system has never been sluggish before.
Thanks again

[buckesfeld]

* newidforu wrote, On 07/01/2009 11:36 PM:
> Thanks, I have just one more question. The system seems a little
> sluggish to me. Is this because of KDE or is OpenSuse a little slow? I
> had compiz enabled on gnome in ubuntu and my system has never been
> sluggish before.

No way to diagnose it remotely :-)
Ctrl+Esc, anything hogging the cpu?
Is the disk busy? Could be beagle then, disable it.

Uwe

[oldcpu]

Originally Posted by newidforu

I have been using Ubuntu with gnome for the last 2 months. I decided to give other distros a try and installed OpenSuse 11.1 with KDE last night. I love the interface but I am having trouble with audio. I have a realtek audio card which was wrongly identified as intel by OpenSuse. My audio works fine but I cannot mute it. I also have a realtek rtl8187b wifi card which works on Opensuse but the signal strength is weak. It also takes a very long time to refresh the networks list.
Thanks for helping me!

Sometimes the auto mute does not work because the autoprobe of your sound card may not have been correctly identified at boot during the loading of the alsa kernel module. In this case it is sometimes necessary to:

• force a model configuration upon boot where the mute will work, and / or
• update to the latest alsa version (as openSUSE-11.1 does NOT have the latest alsa version Alsa-update - openSUSE and/or
• if your hardware of your PC is really new, then a bug report may be necessary to have the alsa kernal model updated to appropriately handle your PCs hardware

There are a lot of hints and links in the audio troubleshooting guide and you could start working thru that. If that does not help, post and after I get back from vacation (in a week or so) I can try guide you thru this in more detail.

Audio troubleshooting guide link: SDB:AudioTroubleshooting - openSUSE