No sound with suse 13.2

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1

hi

i have a lenovo s430 laptop with suse 13.2 and i use kde.

lspci return me: 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)

lsmod return me: snd_hda_intel
my user is member of audio.

in kde, if in go in multimedia section and click front left and right, i hear sound… but i get nothing from video and audio file.

in yast in sound section, my audio card is not setup, if i set up it, and return in kde nothing it’s see.

any idea?

2

No idea but, having tried all sorts of things myself, I reinstalled with all the audio devices connected and everything worked.

3

I would like to try help. Immediately after a fresh restart of your laptop, with your laptop connected to the internet , could open a konsole/xterm and in that run the following diagnostic script:


/usr/sbin/alsa-info.sh

please select the SHARE/UPLOAD information when asked. Do not (at this time) choose to update if asked to update. Let the script run to completion. After it completes, in the konsole/xterm will be the mention of a website/URL where it uploaded the hardware/software audio configuration of your Lenovo. Please copy the address of that link (ie just the HTML web-address) and post it here. I will then take a look at that and see if offers any ideas as to what may be causing you the problem.

I addition to that, Note also - with KDE, you can install the extra application pulse audio volume control (pavucontrol) and with that installed you can have superior control over your laptop’s audio. There is guidance here in the following two blogs on pavucontrol:

4

I also have no sound. Here is the output of
/usr/sbin/alsa-info.shhttp://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=8a15ab9fbdd0baf524d8f27cdf37fe080e7bba7c

5

What desktop are you using ? The first thing I noted was this:


!!Sound Servers on this system
!!----------------------------

Pulseaudio:
      Installed - Yes (/usr/bin/pulseaudio)
      Running - No

ESound Daemon:
      Installed - Yes (/usr/bin/esd)
      Running - No

Jack:
      Installed - Yes (/usr/bin/jackd)
      Running - No

You have Jack installed, and Pulse audio is not running. Nominally in the desktop that I use (which is KDE) pulse audio is running. I do not use any openSUSE variant with pulse audio disabled, so it is quite possible I can’t help.

The second thing I noted was this:


Simple mixer control 'Speaker',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 127
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 0 **[0%]** -63.50dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 0 **[0%]** -63.50dB] [on]

You have your PCs speaker muted with 0% playback. Clearly that disables any sound. You NEED to unmute that.

The third thing I noted was in aplay :


!!Aplay/Arecord output
!!--------------------

APLAY

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
**card 0:** HDMI [HDA Intel HDMI], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: HDMI [HDA Intel HDMI], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: HDMI [HDA Intel HDMI], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
**card 1**: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], **device 0:** ALC286 Analog [ALC286 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

The default sound card on openSUSE is sound card 0, which on your PC is HDMI. Hence if you do not have HDMI setup for sound,then likely you will hear NO sound.

What happens if after unmuting your speaker, you then run a test and try to force the sound through card 1 ? ie copy and paste this into a terminal, and advise if you get any sound:


 aplay -D hw:1,0 -vv /usr/share/sounds/alsa/test.wav

Note that your analog sound device is card-1, device-0, ie : hw:1,0

6

http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=fa15dffcd576f8e94fd94d2ee4e94bdf270cde5b

with pavucontrol i’m able to get sound working but not the micro(but if it touch sound with yast, all broke)

i’m not able to get the micro working, i talking in the micro, i saw the line of sound moving in pavucontrol but with skype no sound.

7

with
arecord -d 10 /tmp/test-mic.wav
sound is recorded

so there is a problem with skype and the micro

8

arecord bypasses pulse audio. So it could be pulse audio not configured with Skype. I use pavucontrol to configure my Laptop (toshiba) mic with Skype.

wrt the script file: http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=fa15dffcd576f8e94fd94d2ee4e94bdf270cde5b

I note your mic boost is at 0% making any audio capture difficult. You should raise that to 66% or so.


**Simple mixer control 'Mic Boost',0**
  Capabilities: volume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: 0 - 3
  Front Left: 0 **[0%]** [0.00dB]
  Front Right: 0 **[0%]** [0.00dB]
**Simple mixer control 'Auto-Mute Mode',0**
  Capabilities: enum
  Items: 'Disabled' 'Enabled'
  Item0: 'Enabled'

I also note Auto mute enabled. I recommend you ensure enabling that does not cause problems.
.

9

I never had sound with opensuse 13.2 on my system since its installation early November and had hoped that software updates would correct this. Now I don’t want to wait any longer. What could I do?

pavucontrol reports
Fatal Error: Unable to connect to PulseAudio: OK

Apparently, no sound servers are running. Why?

The first part of
/usr/sbin/alsa-info.sh reports

upload=true&script=true&cardinfo=
!!################################
!!ALSA Information Script v 0.4.64
!!################################

!!Script ran on: Mon Jan 5 19:49:47 UTC 2015

!!Linux Distribution
!!------------------

Welcome to openSUSE 13.2 “Harlequin” - Kernel \r (\l). openSUSE 13.2 (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 13.2 (Harlequin) (x86_64)” ID=opensuse CPE_NAME=“cpe:/o:opensuse:opensuse:13.2” BUG_REPORT_URL=“https://bugs.opensuse.org” HOME_URL=“https://opensuse.org/” ID_LIKE=“suse”

!!DMI Information
!!---------------

Manufacturer: Sony Corporation
Product Name: SVP1321Z9EB
Product Version: C60C3LP0
Firmware Version: R1044V7

!!Kernel Information
!!------------------

Kernel release: 3.16.7-7-desktop
Operating System: GNU/Linux
Architecture: x86_64
Processor: x86_64
SMP Enabled: Yes

!!ALSA Version
!!------------

Driver version: k3.16.7-7-desktop
Library version:
Utilities version: 1.0.28

!!Loaded ALSA modules
!!-------------------

snd_hda_intel
snd_hda_intel

!!Sound Servers on this system
!!----------------------------

Pulseaudio:
Installed - Yes (/usr/bin/pulseaudio)
Running - No

ESound Daemon:
Installed - Yes (/usr/bin/esd)
Running - No

Jack:
Installed - Yes (/usr/bin/jackd)
Running - No

!!Soundcards recognised by ALSA
!!-----------------------------

0 [HDMI ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel HDMI
HDA Intel HDMI at 0xf7f14000 irq 61
1 [PCH ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH
HDA Intel PCH at 0xf7f10000 irq 62

!!PCI Soundcards installed in the system
!!--------------------------------------

00:03.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT HD Audio Controller (rev 09)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 8 Series HD Audio Controller (rev 04)

10

Check in YaST->Hardware->Sound->Other->PulseAudio Configuration, whether PulseAudio is enabled or not.
If not it’s clear that pavucontrol doesn’t work, but you should still have sound.
If it is enabled, something is wrong.

As a first test I’d suggest to enable or disable it and logout/login. Do you have sound then?
If PA is disabled now, try to enable it again and logout/login. Do you have sound now?
Does pavucontrol work now?

One note: If you have timidity installed and enabled, it will block PulseAudio. So you’d have to either disable timidity or PulseAudio.

11

Thank you very much for your advise.
PulseAudio was not enabled. I enabled it and logged out and in and found that it was disabled again. After enabling PA again, pavucontrol works. I can see the variable bar for the analog output indicating the sound output but cannot hear anything. Do you have any idea what could be the cause?

timidity is not installed.

By the way, pacucontrol generated a lot of warning messages:

(pavucontrol:13775): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: The property GtkMisc:xpad is deprecated and shouldn’t be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version.
(pavucontrol:13775): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: The property GtkMisc:ypad is deprecated and shouldn’t be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version.
(pavucontrol:13775): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: The property GtkAlignment:bottom-padding is deprecated and shouldn’t be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version.
(pavucontrol:13775): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: The property GtkAlignment:left-padding is deprecated and shouldn’t be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version.
(pavucontrol:13775): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: The property GtkAlignment:right-padding is deprecated and shouldn’t be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version.
(pavucontrol:13775): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: The property GtkContainer:resize-mode is deprecated and shouldn’t be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version.
(pavucontrol:13775): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: The property GtkImage:stock is deprecated and shouldn’t be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version.
(pavucontrol:13775): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: The property GtkButton:xalign is deprecated and shouldn’t be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version.

12

pavucontrol only works with PA, it is just a PA frontend.

I can see the variable bar for the analog output indicating the sound output but cannot hear anything. Do you have any idea what could be the cause?

Hm. I don’t (and never did) use PA myself, so I’m not really sure what to try.

Maybe the output device is set wrong? You should be able to change that in pavucontrol.

As you have more than one card, try to set the correct one as “Primary” in YaST.

Check the volume, maybe run “alsamixer” and have a look there whether some output is muted/has volume 0.

By the way, pacucontrol generated a lot of warning messages:

(pavucontrol:13775): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: The property GtkMisc:xpad is deprecated and shouldn’t be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version.
(pavucontrol:13775): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: The property GtkMisc:ypad is deprecated and shouldn’t be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version.
(pavucontrol:13775): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: The property GtkAlignment:bottom-padding is deprecated and shouldn’t be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version.
(pavucontrol:13775): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: The property GtkAlignment:left-padding is deprecated and shouldn’t be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version.
(pavucontrol:13775): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: The property GtkAlignment:right-padding is deprecated and shouldn’t be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version.
(pavucontrol:13775): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: The property GtkContainer:resize-mode is deprecated and shouldn’t be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version.
(pavucontrol:13775): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: The property GtkImage:stock is deprecated and shouldn’t be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version.
(pavucontrol:13775): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: The property GtkButton:xalign is deprecated and shouldn’t be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version.

This is quite normal for GNOME/GTK applications.
If it works ok otherwise, just ignore them.

13

alsamixer showed that the speaker volume was set to 0. Changing this, I could hear the sound.

But why are PulseAudio and the speaker volume not setup correctly in Suse 13.2 during installation?

Thank you very much for your help. I am now happy.

14

No idea.
And I never experienced something like this myself.

Thank you very much for your help. I am now happy.

Good to hear! :slight_smile:

15

I had to switch the first card in the Yast sound configure . By default the on board sound card was first and I had no sound putting NVIDIA first I have sound from the on board. And Vol control you always need to check that but that should work in either the desktop sound vol or pavolcontrol. They are just different interfaces to the same thing. Noter on occasion I have had updates set sound to 0% so if you lose sound always check the volume before doing any “adjustments”

16

Absolutely no sound on a system which is doing well with openSUSE13.1:

upload=true&script=true&cardinfo=
!!################################
!!ALSA Information Script v 0.4.64
!!################################

!!Script ran on: Thu Jan 22 23:59:21 UTC 2015


!!Linux Distribution
!!------------------

Welcome to openSUSE 13.2 "Harlequin" - Kernel \r (\l). openSUSE 13.2 (x86_64) # /etc/SuSE-release is deprecated and will be removed in the future, use /etc/os-release instead NAME=openSUSE PRETTY_NAME="openSUSE 13.2 (Harlequin) (x86_64)" ID=opensuse CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:opensuse:opensuse:13.2" BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.opensuse.org" HOME_URL="https://opensuse.org/" ID_LIKE="suse"


!!DMI Information
!!---------------

Manufacturer:      To Be Filled By O.E.M.
Product Name:      To Be Filled By O.E.M.
Product Version:   To Be Filled By O.E.M.
Firmware Version:  P2.20


!!Kernel Information
!!------------------

Kernel release:    3.16.7-7-desktop
Operating System:  GNU/Linux
Architecture:      x86_64
Processor:         x86_64
SMP Enabled:       Yes


!!ALSA Version
!!------------

Driver version:     k3.16.7-7-desktop
Library version:    
Utilities version:  1.0.28


!!Loaded ALSA modules
!!-------------------



!!Sound Servers on this system
!!----------------------------

Pulseaudio:
      Installed - Yes (/usr/bin/pulseaudio)
      Running - No

ESound Daemon:
      Installed - Yes (/usr/bin/esd)
      Running - No


!!Soundcards recognised by ALSA
!!-----------------------------

--- no soundcards ---


!!PCI Soundcards installed in the system
!!--------------------------------------

00:03.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio Controller (rev 06)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset High Definition Audio Controller (rev 05)


!!Advanced information - PCI Vendor/Device/Subsystem ID's
!!-------------------------------------------------------

00:03.0 0403: 8086:0c0c (rev 06)
        Subsystem: 1849:0c0c
--
00:1b.0 0403: 8086:8c20 (rev 05)
        Subsystem: 1849:d892


!!Loaded sound module options
!!---------------------------


!!ALSA Device nodes
!!-----------------

crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  1 Jan 23 00:44 /dev/snd/seq
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 33 Jan 23 00:46 /dev/snd/timer


!!Aplay/Arecord output
!!--------------------

APLAY

aplay: device_list:268: no soundcards found...

ARECORD

arecord: device_list:268: no soundcards found...

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


!!Alsactl output
!!--------------

--startcollapse--
--endcollapse--


!!All Loaded Modules
!!------------------

Module
snd
soundcore
fuse
joydev
bnep
bluetooth
6lowpan_iphc
af_packet
cfg80211
rfkill
uas
usb_storage
usblp
iTCO_wdt
iTCO_vendor_support
mxm_wmi
nls_iso8859_1
nls_cp437
vfat
fat
x86_pkg_temp_thermal
intel_powerclamp
coretemp
kvm_intel
kvm
crct10dif_pclmul
crc32_pclmul
crc32c_intel
ghash_clmulni_intel
aesni_intel
aes_x86_64
lrw
gf128mul
glue_helper
ablk_helper
cryptd
pcspkr
serio_raw
i2c_i801
lpc_ich
mfd_core
shpchp
mei_me
mei
e1000e
ptp
pps_core
tpm_tis
tpm
battery
nuvoton_cir
rc_core
wmi
intel_smartconnect
processor
dm_mod
sr_mod
cdrom
i915
i2c_algo_bit
drm_kms_helper
xhci_hcd
drm
video
button
sg


!!ALSA/HDA dmesg
!!--------------

    3.871494] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver
    3.871785] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:03.0: irq 44 for MSI/MSI-X
    3.871839] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: irq 45 for MSI/MSI-X
    3.872243] iTCO_vendor_support: vendor-support=0
--
    3.880419] usbcore: registered new interface driver uas
    3.882544] input: HDA Intel HDMI HDMI/DP,pcm=3 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/sound/card0/input9
    3.882654] input: HDA Intel HDMI HDMI/DP,pcm=7 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/sound/card0/input10
    3.882744] input: HDA Intel HDMI HDMI/DP,pcm=8 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/sound/card0/input11
    3.886247] sound hdaudioC1D0: autoconfig: line_outs=4 (0x14/0x15/0x16/0x17/0x0) type:line
    3.886251] sound hdaudioC1D0:    speaker_outs=0 (0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
    3.886253] sound hdaudioC1D0:    hp_outs=1 (0x1b/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
    3.886255] sound hdaudioC1D0:    mono: mono_out=0x0
    3.886256] sound hdaudioC1D0:    dig-out=0x1e/0x0
    3.886258] sound hdaudioC1D0:    inputs:
    3.886260] sound hdaudioC1D0:      Front Mic=0x19
    3.886261] sound hdaudioC1D0:      Rear Mic=0x18
    3.886263] sound hdaudioC1D0:      Line=0x1a
    3.898228] input: HDA Intel PCH Front Mic as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card1/input12
    3.898434] input: HDA Intel PCH Rear Mic as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card1/input13
    3.898506] input: HDA Intel PCH Line as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card1/input14
    3.898578] input: HDA Intel PCH Line Out Front as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card1/input15
    3.898841] input: HDA Intel PCH Line Out Surround as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card1/input16
    3.898882] input: HDA Intel PCH Line Out CLFE as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card1/input17
    3.898921] input: HDA Intel PCH Line Out Side as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card1/input18
    3.898959] input: HDA Intel PCH Front Headphone as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card1/input19
    3.959273] audit: type=1305 audit(1421970266.240:2): audit_pid=575 old=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 res=1
--
   10.480461] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized
   73.977078] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:03.0: irq 44 for MSI/MSI-X
   73.977173] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: irq 45 for MSI/MSI-X
   73.986358] input: HDA Intel HDMI HDMI/DP,pcm=3 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/sound/card0/input20
   73.986847] input: HDA Intel HDMI HDMI/DP,pcm=7 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/sound/card0/input21
   73.987752] sound hdaudioC1D0: autoconfig: line_outs=4 (0x14/0x15/0x16/0x17/0x0) type:line
   73.987755] sound hdaudioC1D0:    speaker_outs=0 (0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
   73.987757] sound hdaudioC1D0:    hp_outs=1 (0x1b/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
   73.987758] sound hdaudioC1D0:    mono: mono_out=0x0
   73.987759] sound hdaudioC1D0:    dig-out=0x1e/0x0
   73.987761] sound hdaudioC1D0:    inputs:
   73.987762] sound hdaudioC1D0:      Front Mic=0x19
   73.987764] sound hdaudioC1D0:      Rear Mic=0x18
   73.987766] sound hdaudioC1D0:      Line=0x1a
   73.989391] input: HDA Intel HDMI HDMI/DP,pcm=8 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/sound/card0/input22
   74.001785] input: HDA Intel PCH Front Mic as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card1/input23
   74.001831] input: HDA Intel PCH Rear Mic as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card1/input24
   74.001869] input: HDA Intel PCH Line as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card1/input25
   74.001908] input: HDA Intel PCH Line Out Front as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card1/input26
   74.001945] input: HDA Intel PCH Line Out Surround as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card1/input27
   74.001988] input: HDA Intel PCH Line Out CLFE as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card1/input28
   74.002028] input: HDA Intel PCH Line Out Side as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card1/input29
   74.002066] input: HDA Intel PCH Front Headphone as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card1/input30
  129.412295] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:03.0: irq 44 for MSI/MSI-X
  129.412394] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: irq 45 for MSI/MSI-X
  129.417293] input: HDA Intel HDMI HDMI/DP,pcm=3 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/sound/card0/input31
  129.417357] input: HDA Intel HDMI HDMI/DP,pcm=7 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/sound/card0/input32
  129.417411] input: HDA Intel HDMI HDMI/DP,pcm=8 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/sound/card0/input33
  129.426131] sound hdaudioC1D0: autoconfig: line_outs=4 (0x14/0x15/0x16/0x17/0x0) type:line
  129.426133] sound hdaudioC1D0:    speaker_outs=0 (0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
  129.426134] sound hdaudioC1D0:    hp_outs=1 (0x1b/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
  129.426135] sound hdaudioC1D0:    mono: mono_out=0x0
  129.426136] sound hdaudioC1D0:    dig-out=0x1e/0x0
  129.426136] sound hdaudioC1D0:    inputs:
  129.426138] sound hdaudioC1D0:      Front Mic=0x19
  129.426139] sound hdaudioC1D0:      Rear Mic=0x18
  129.426140] sound hdaudioC1D0:      Line=0x1a
  129.437976] input: HDA Intel PCH Front Mic as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card1/input34
  129.438039] input: HDA Intel PCH Rear Mic as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card1/input35
  129.438101] input: HDA Intel PCH Line as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card1/input36
  129.438153] input: HDA Intel PCH Line Out Front as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card1/input37
  129.438205] input: HDA Intel PCH Line Out Surround as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card1/input38
  129.438258] input: HDA Intel PCH Line Out CLFE as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card1/input39
  129.438310] input: HDA Intel PCH Line Out Side as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card1/input40
  129.438363] input: HDA Intel PCH Front Headphone as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card1/input41
  142.110543] fuse init (API version 7.23)


erlangen:~ #
17

The problem is no sound card found - its strange thou, as I do not see supporting error statements in the dmesg.

Try to configure the sound card in yast to see if that helps.

I’m off on business today and all next week, so my internet access my be limited. Good luck.

18

Tried to configure some ten times and got inconclusive results. Twice I heard some sound when pressing the left and right speaker buttons in Yast, but this worked only two or three times, then the buttons wre muted. With the first 64-bit install being a net install with subsequent one click installation I deleted everything and tried a install from DVD with the four OSS, non OSS and their update repositories only. Now I have two sound cards and speaker test in Yast2 is now working.

19

I’ve never tried a net install myself - as I have a fundamental disagreement with the concept (due to the less than ideal reliability of the Internet).

If you had not re-installed, my next recommendation (and likely my only remaining idea) would have been to re-install all the alsa apps and also the kernel.

Glad to read sound is now working with a complete openSUSE re-install.

20

Thanks for commenting. I started using net install immediately when a new provider sent me a router in 2009. I never experienced difficulties with downloading from the net, but **** will happen if you are trying hard. By the way one third of the “DVD”-installation is actually downloaded from the update repositories. If there had been difficulties with the new install, the next step would have been a DVD-only install using a singe repo. :slight_smile: