Using 11.2. Sound configuration tools have no effect. would suspect a hardware problem except that system notifications work. Also amarok is the only app that can play mp3’s. Dvd’s and videos have no sound. What can I do. Sound worked perfectlty in 11.0.
Hi,
First thing to do, chech this : MMCHECK - Check Your Multimedia in 10 Steps - Script File, as proposed by RedDwarf
After that, check this one to have all the codecs you need : Multi-media and Restricted Format Installation Guide
mlmack Using 11.2. Sound configuration tools have no effect. would suspect a hardware problem except that system notifications work. Also amarok is the only app that can play mp3’s. Dvd’s and videos have no sound. What can I do. Sound worked perfectlty in 11.0.
Another script file tool you can try is called START you can find here:
S.T.A.R.T. - SuSE Terminal Audio Reporting Tool
You can also go into YaST / Hardware / Sound and see if your sound card is listed and if it is first in the list. Some sound devices such as a Creative Sound Blaster can have a problem as they do not by default get listed at all but can be messed up by a second sound device you did not realize was there is in this list. It is actually possible to update YaST and Alsa to list Creative deices if need be. So tell us what kind of sound device do you have?
Thank You,
Thanks for the quick response. I ran both your scripts and also followed the instructions in your multimedia setup. I followed them all, even though I’m using 11.2. Hope that wasn’t a mistake. Now, the sound configuration tool works. package totem-plugin-upnp didn’t seem to be available on any of your prefered repositories, so it’s missing. There is no sound in flash. DVD’s will play, but there is no sound. Amarok is still the only app that will play mp3’s.
What can I do now?
Hi,
Did you check as suggested by jdmcdaniel3 in yats->hardware->sound if your card is listed and in the fisrt place on the list ? If it is, run alsamixer in terminal and check if PCM volume is high enough.
Sound card was correct. PCM is maxed out.
On 2011-03-03 17:36, mlmack wrote:
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> Sound card was correct. PCM is maxed out.
Does the YaST sound configuration test button work?
Are you using kde or gnome? Sound is different on each. Pulse or not pulse?
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)
Test button works now. Didn’t at first. Using KDE. Not using pulse: tried it earlier but it didn’t help. I suspect something is blocking internally but can’t imagine what. No sound in flash videos or avi’s. Amarok’s the only app that will play mp3’s.
On 2011-03-03 22:36, mlmack wrote:
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> Test button works now. Didn’t at first. Using KDE. Not using pulse:
> tried it earlier but it didn’t help. I suspect something is blocking
> internally but can’t imagine what. No sound in flash videos or avi’s.
> Amarok’s the only app that will play mp3’s.
Ok, so you have sound working, just that some apps remain mute, is that it?
List which work and which don’t.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)
Not working are Decibel, Kaffeine, vlc, Totem, Mplayer, and Banshee. That’s all that’s installed. Viedo players will play video but not sound. Flash video works without sound. As noted above, Amaroks the only app that plays mp3’s. I hate Amarok.
I just discovered that I ran mmcheck improperly. 4 files were missing: totem-plugin-upnp, gstreamer-0_10-fluendo-mpegmux, gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good-extra, and gstreamer-0_10-fluendo-mpegdemux. Th3 script author said not to use the videolan repository but that was the only place that had the 3 gstreamer files. The totem file was not on any repository I know of.
There were only 2 changer after installation: gnome-mplayer is now the only other mp3 player and totem now gives an error message: “Internal GStreamer error: negotiation problem”. The same message shows with videos and mp3’s.
Are you using gstreamer?
Try running the gstreamer-properties in the terminal
gstreamer-properties
and find out if you can set properly the audio.
gstreamer-properties produced:
(gstreamer-properties:10813): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_bin_add: assertion `GST_IS_ELEMENT (element)’ failed
(gstreamer-properties:10813): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_element_get_static_pad: assertion `GST_IS_ELEMENT (element)’ failed
(gstreamer-properties:10813): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_object_unref: assertion `object != NULL’ failed
gstreamer-properties-Message: Error running pipeline ‘Video for Linux 2 (v4l2)’: Cannot identify device ‘/dev/video0’. [v4l2_calls.c(488): gst_v4l2_open (): /GstPipeline:pipeline0/GstV4l2Src:v4l2src1:
system error: No such file or directory]
(gstreamer-properties:10813): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_bin_add: assertion `GST_IS_ELEMENT (element)’ failed
(gstreamer-properties:10813): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_element_get_static_pad: assertion `GST_IS_ELEMENT (element)’ failed
(gstreamer-properties:10813): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_object_unref: assertion `object != NULL’ failed
It also raised a window with audio and video tests. The audio output test for OSS Open Sound System generated a tone. Neither autodetect nor any other selection did. On the input test, OSS produced static. In video, all output selections produced a color chart. On “input” only the test option displayed the chart.
I’d reinstall but 3 clean reinstalls had the same issues.
Hi mimack,
You’ve been through a lot of reinstall and in all that drops you in the same situation.
I think re-installation will not help. At this stage maybe you have to check the physical connections of your hardware. also, this thread had already entered in it’s second page and you have not provided a good information about the specification of your machine and hardware that will probably catch the attention of the sound gurus of the forum. Your situation as I see will only gather hints and guesses kind of help until you describe in detail all the good information that you can provide in this thread.
Hope you will be able to get through with your sound problem.
Good luck
I don’t really know what information would be useful. The machine was assembled, not name brand. quad 4 Intel cpu, with SB0570 [SB Audigy SE (Driver snd-ca0106), 2 gigs of ram. It played sound automatically in 11.0 through a wide variety of players. After running the on line fix, AV worked just fine. Note again that there [u]is sound now but only through 2 mp3 players; no video sound at all. Tried moving gstreamer to the priority spot with no change.
The gstreamer-properties made OSS look like a good bet but I don’t know anything about it.
Let me know what else is needed.
Hi mimack,
While we are waiting for a sound guru to come in I will try to help with no guarantee of resolving your problem.
There are some commands we can try to know what’s up with your sound card. I will post the command and do it in your machine and re-post here the output. There is also a very helpful command from oldcpu but I think it’s better for us to wait til he sees this thread and advice you to do so for that command belongs to the expert to diagnose and explain to the layman.
In your terminal try these two commands and post back each individual result:
aplay -l
Note that ‘l’ is small letter ‘L’
aplay -L
You mentioned that there are video applications with out audio output, please post those video applications and we will try them to play using the result of the command I gave you to try.
Good luck
aplayer -l yields:
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: CA0106 [CA0106], device 0: ca0106 [CA0106]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: CA0106 [CA0106], device 1: ca0106 [CA0106]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: CA0106 [CA0106], device 2: ca0106 [CA0106]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: CA0106 [CA0106], device 3: ca0106 [CA0106]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: STAC92xx Digital [STAC92xx Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
aplayer -L shows:
front:CARD=CA0106,DEV=0
CA0106, CA0106
Front speakers
rear:CARD=CA0106,DEV=0
CA0106, CA0106
Rear speakers
center_lfe:CARD=CA0106,DEV=0
CA0106, CA0106
Center and Subwoofer speakers
side:CARD=CA0106,DEV=0
CA0106, CA0106
Side speakers
surround40:CARD=CA0106,DEV=0
CA0106, CA0106
4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=CA0106,DEV=0
CA0106, CA0106
4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=CA0106,DEV=0
CA0106, CA0106
5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=CA0106,DEV=0
CA0106, CA0106
5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=CA0106,DEV=0
CA0106, CA0106
7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
iec958:CARD=CA0106,DEV=0
CA0106, CA0106
IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
null
Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
front:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, STAC92xx Analog
Front speakers
surround40:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, STAC92xx Analog
4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, STAC92xx Analog
4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, STAC92xx Analog
5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, STAC92xx Analog
5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, STAC92xx Analog
7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
iec958:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, STAC92xx Digital
IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
The various video players include them all : Totem, kaffeine, vlc, mplayer, and xine. Some in various forms such as kde3 or gnome.
Hi mlmack,
Now that you have those aplay results, Can you test the sound in kde system settings which of the corresponding device is sending a sound to the speaker system and post it here.
If possible paste a screenshot and encircle the one that is working in your speaker system.
Audigy was the only one to work. It worked in all categories. Don’t know how to post screen shots or how to circle the selection.
Ok, this is what you have to do
Go to the kde system-settings or configure desktop and go to the sound or I think multimedia settings, whatever it is called in kde 4.XX
Use the ksnapshot to take the screenshot and save as jpeg or png, open it in gimp or equivalent that you know how to use and use the tools to circle/square or line just to have a mark on the device that is working. Upload it to imageshack or imagebam and put the link in this thread. Or use the insert image feature of the forum and insert your image. It is important to see the device numbers that is working so we can put it in the video application
audio preference and test if it will create a sound.