For instance, when I go to AccuRadio | Internet Radio You Control and pick the Classical channel, another window pops up but the music is not streaming. Am I missing some other driver?
Thanks for the congratulations! I am glad that I’ve got this project partially taken care… And now let’s tackle what is left.
Apparently I cannot listen to any site that streams audio. I did find and tried to follow caf4926’s “Multi-media and Restricted Format Installation Guide 11.0” (Multi-media and Restricted Format Installation Guide). I think I got everything installed pertaining to release 11.3 but some of the commands suggested brought up choices as to what to install, so I cannot be 100% sure that I made the correct choices. (I can’t give you an example right now of what choices were presented because I ran everything yesterday evening late…)
Actually this is not an audio issue, but more a question of Flash working or not (at least that’d be my first notion) - that’s why oldcpu asked about whether you get sound on YouTube. So… how does YouTube work for you? Do you get sound and film or only film or neither of them? Does any audio work in a webbrowser?
On YouTube I get the video part but absolutely no sound. I’ve also tried Yahoo!TV with the same result. I’ve visited several sites for Internet radio and I get no sound there either.
At this point, the only sound I am able to hear is when I play a music CD.
Current mixer: set to HDA Creative
I tried picking one of the seven channels shown (Headphone, PCM, Front, etc.) but still no sound.
All volume sliders are set to 100%.
My guess is that there is some driver for streaming music that is missing…
(2) go to KMENU > Configure Desktop > Multimedia and with device preferences selected [do a screen print and upload the image of the multimedia window to ImageBam - Fast, Free Image Hosting and Photo Sharing and provide us a link to the image]
(3) go to KMENU > Configure Desktop > Multimedia > Backend and advise what you have selected for Backend ?
(4) if you have xine selected for backend, please provide output of running in a terminal:
rpm -qa '*xine*'
(5) so we can get a better look at your rpms installed to get your sound driver functional (ie to get sound working) please provide output of:
rpm -qa '*alsa*'
rpm -q libasound2
uname -a
(6) so we can get a better look at your mixer and other settings please provide output URL/web-address that is given by running:
/usr/sbin/alsa-info.sh
I’m hoping by providing all the above we might have an idea as to where the problem may be.
Try this in the KDE / Configure Desktop “Multimedia”-settings mentioned by oldcpu: in the “Phonon”-subsection, look for the device-priority for each section (messages, music, video etc.) and give your soundcard the primary priority.
HDA Creative (CA0110 Analog) has the priority for all Devices listed under both Audio Output and Audio Capture sections. Since my audio card is a Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio (PCIe), it would appear that the ranking is correct.
Under Audio Output, the priorities are listed in this order:
HDA Creative (CA0110 Analog)
HDAATI HDMI, HDMI 0 (HDMI Audio Output)
Under Audio Caputre, the priorities are listed in this order:
IF the suggestion to change the order of sound devices in the post above did not work, please follow the guidance in this post to fix another problem with your configuration:
Note the colours above. The red application alsa-driver-unstable-kmp-desktop should not be installed.
The problem is if you just remove it now, it may also remove libraries that that were installed with the green rpm alsa-driver-kmp-desktop which will break your sound.
So what you need to do to remove the ‘red’ application’ is to remove BOTH alsa-driver-kmp-desktop and alsa-driver-unstable-kmp-desktop. After those are both successfully removed, then re-install alsa-driver-kmp-desktop. Reboot and test.
But thats not all, … take a look at the applications marked in orange above. Those are all older versions and they may not work consistently with the alsa-driver-kmp-desktop. Hence if your sound situation does not improve after the removal of alsa-driver-unstable-kmp-desktop, then you should update those, using the updated versions from this repository: Index of /repositories/multimedia:/libs/openSUSE_11.3 Being careful to update properly and not be confused by a YaST message saying you have already updated from that repository because you have NOT updated from that repository.
After updating those reboot and test your sound.
There is guidance here for that (albeit that wiki page is out of date and not consistent with the most recent kernel ) : SDB:Alsa-update - openSUSE
The diagnostic script confirms the wrong order of sound devices:
!!Soundcards recognised by ALSA
!!-----------------------------
0 [HDMI ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI HDMI
HDA ATI HDMI at 0xfb9ec000 irq 35
1 [Creative ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Creative
HDA Creative at 0xfbafc000 irq 16
I believe that I executed everything you suggested; it appears to me that some ALSA drivers were updated while others were removed. Unfortunately, I still do not have audio when visiting Internet radio sites, YouTube, Yahoo!TV, etc. The problem to me appears to be that the streaming of bits does not occur. For instance, when using AccuRadio | Internet Radio You Control and selecting the Classical channel, another window pops up and in one box the word “Playing —:—” shows up where “—:—” should be showing the length in minutes and seconds of the song. (See screen capture No. 7 below.)
I am enclosing updated screen captures and pasted information for your easy reference.
It appears you failed to follow the very 1st (and most important) recommendation that I gave, which was to change the order of your sound device in YaST. I note this from the script:
!!Soundcards recognised by ALSA
!!-----------------------------
** 0 [HDMI ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI HDMI
HDA ATI HDMI at 0xfb9ec000 irq 35**
1 [Creative ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Creative
HDA Creative at 0xfbafc000 irq 16
Fire fox will try to play sound through sound device 0, … ergo … you will hear no sound in firefox.
So please follow the recommendation I gave, which is to go to YaST > Hardware > Sound and change the order of the sound devices !
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