Hello,
I have recently been forced to do a hardware upgrade (my previous mobo died). Now, sounds works ok with, say, amarok because kde has recognized the new hardware and switched to it.
However, youtube does not work, likely because flash uses alsa-oss which is probably not configured automatically.
I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling both alsa-oss and flash, but it didn’t solve the problem.
Any advice on how do I configure alsa for my new hardware?
Hello,
I have recently been forced to do a hardware upgrade (my previous mobo died). Now, sounds works ok with, say, amarok because kde has recognized the new hardware and switched to it.
However, youtube does not work, likely because flash uses alsa-oss which is probably not configured automatically.
I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling both alsa-oss and flash, but it didn’t solve the problem.
Any advice on how do I configure alsa for my new hardware?
You did not mention which version of openSUSE that you are using. However, the problem could be your multimedia setup. Here is a section that explains it in great detail:
Multi-media and Restricted Format Installation Guide
Here is about the new Packman
Here is the mmcheck bash script file. Look at Message #69 for the most recent version:
MMCHECK - Check Your Multimedia in 10 Steps - Script File, as proposed by RedDwarf
Here is another script good for testing your audio setup.
S.T.A.R.T. - SuSE Terminal Audio Reporting Tool
Thank You,
You could also try disabling Pulse Audio on YaST and changing your device to default in YaST > Sound. That worked for me.
Is pulseaudio enabled in yst2-hardware-sound. Can you please verify
How many soundcard are now connected in your machine?
Can you post the output of
aplay -l
Hello, pulseaudio was not installed. Installing and enabling it solved the issue.
Thank you!
P.S.: Those links in the first post may be useful for me someday, but, regardless of the poster best intentions, they are too generic and of broad scope to be of much use here. I’ve tried to search there for an advice to my problem, but failed to do so. Maybe it is there, but it is hard to find.
More than that, it mentions lots of unrelated issues that may even confuse novice users. For example, when it comes to repository settings, one of the links seems to imply that you cannot have other repositories enabled than those mentioned, which is clearly not true.
Hello, pulseaudio was not installed. Installing and enabling it solved the issue.
Thank you!
P.S.: Those links in the first post may be useful for me someday, but, regardless of the poster best intentions, they are too generic and of broad scope to be of much use here. I’ve tried to search there for an advice to my problem, but failed to do so. Maybe it is there, but it is hard to find.
More than that, it mentions lots of unrelated issues that may even confuse novice users. For example, when it comes to repository settings, one of the links seems to imply that you cannot have other repositories enabled than those mentioned, which is clearly not true.
eshneto, you can have lots of repositories enabled, but for what purpose are you doing so? A really big problem is mixing almost identical package versions together from different repositories which can render certain multimedia functionality inoperable. Specifically, we suggest adding in only the Packman repository here:
http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_11.4/
Another repository, VideoLan, may be added in to fetch the single file libdvdcss in order to be able to view DVD movies. However, if you start loading any other files from here, they can cause problems with Packman packages, when mixed together. There are other situations where you might want to add additional repositories, but you might want to ask for help first.
For instance, I might add in the much smaller Mozilla repository if I am having problems with Firefox, but the same issue of mixing files between the original and the Mozilla repository might also cause problems. I might need to “Switch to Repository” all of the files to Mozilla, which I might do if I had a problem, but which I would not want to do if I was not having a problem and should not add in that Mozilla repository.
As always we are here to help. If you have a problem you are trying to solve, please let us know. As for Pulseaudio, when you do a new install, PA is installed by default. Obviously, the key word here was you did an upgrade and not a clean install and thus caused a problem we had not been looking for. In any event we are happy to hear you got your system working again and that you did share the solution with us.
Thank You,