I’m running opensuse 13.1 and I lost sound after a recent update (where the only component that seemed remotely related was fglrx).
To be more specific, when I run
:~> speaker-test -Dplug:front -c2 -l5 -twav
I get sound. I also have sound when I go into Yast2 and test for sound.
However, I don’t get any sound in kde and no application plays any sound (including non-kde apps like vlc). I don’t get sound in any other window manager (twm, fvwm2) and switching to root doesn’t help either. (I have audio and video added to my groups.)
The only thing I can think of is that somehow kde and other apps are trying to use an HDMI audio device (see below) whereas I’m just using the standard analog device. I see Caicos HDMI Audio in my kde mixer and perhaps that’s the problem even though it worked before. That doesn’t explain why vlc and audacity don’t work unless it’s related to pulseaudio somehow.
alsa output below:
!!ALSA Information Script v 0.4.61
!!################################
!!Script ran on: Tue May 6 12:21:34 UTC 2014
!!Linux Distribution
!!------------------
Welcome to openSUSE 13.1 “Bottle” - Kernel \r (\l). openSUSE 13.1 (x86_64) # /etc/SuSE-release is deprecated and will be removed in the future, use /etc/os-release instead LSB_VERSION=“core-2.0-noarch:core-3.2-noarch:core-4.0-noarch:core-2.0-x86_64:core-3.2-x86_64:core-4.0-x86_64” NAME=openSUSE PRETTY_NAME=“openSUSE 13.1 (Bottle) (x86_64)” ID=opensuse CPE_NAME=“cpe:/opensuse/opensuse:13.1” BUG_REPORT_URL=“https://bugs.opensuse.org” HOME_URL=“https://opensuse.org/” ID_LIKE=“suse”
!!DMI Information
!!---------------
Manufacturer: LENOVO
Product Name: IdeaCentre K330
Product Version: Lenovo Product
Firmware Version: DKKT20AUS
!!Kernel Information
!!------------------
Kernel release: 3.11.10-7-default
Operating System: GNU/Linux
Architecture: x86_64
Processor: x86_64
SMP Enabled: Yes
!!ALSA Version
!!------------
Driver version: k3.11.10-7-default
Library version:
Utilities version: 1.0.27.2
!!Loaded ALSA modules
!!-------------------
snd_hda_intel
snd_hda_intel
!!Sound Servers on this system
!!----------------------------
Pulseaudio:
Installed - Yes (/usr/bin/pulseaudio)
Running - Yes
ESound Daemon:
Installed - Yes (/usr/bin/esd)
Running - No
Jack:
Installed - Yes (/usr/bin/jackd)
Running - No
!!Soundcards recognised by ALSA
!!-----------------------------
0 [PCH ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH
HDA Intel PCH at 0xfe720000 irq 46
1 [Generic ]: HDA-Intel - HD-Audio Generic
HD-Audio Generic at 0xfe640000 irq 47
!!PCI Soundcards installed in the system
!!--------------------------------------
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 05)
01:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Caicos HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 6400 Series]