Having just installed openSUSE 13.2 I now find that YouTube videos have no sound, and Flash crashes after a short period of running. I am also getting the notorious “media-plugin-webkit error” when attenpting to run a Second Life viewer, leaving me with no sound. Since the Second Life viewer uses Flash modules for at least some of its media handling I assume this is the same problem.
Has anyone else had this problem and how has it been solved?
(I’ve used Yast to install Flash.)
You should say which browser you are using.
Some folks find using Chrome from Google helpful
You should follow the multimedia guide https://forums.opensuse.org/entry.php/160-openSUSE-13-2-Multimedia-Guide
What Graphics device do you have
What desktop are you using
I’m using Firefox, withthe KDE desktop.
My graphics card is the GTE550.
OK Thanks
So are you using the nvidia driver?
I hadn’t, since I hadn’t seen any problems with nouveau as yet. But your post made me think I should.
However, when I tried to install it I was told that nouveau had to be disabled. I don’t recall having this problem in 12.2 (my previous version) but, whatever. I decided to add
nouveau.modeset=0
to the boot command line and see what happened. What has happened is that, when I boot OpenSUSE my monitor goes blank.
Any ideas how I get myself out of this? I can boot up the machine using an OpenSUSE Live CD, so I can access files to edit them as necessary. I tried to have a look at initrd, but it tells me I have to specify an application to read the file.
I’m getting myself into more trouble than I expected over this, but at least I’m learning!
Installing the nvidia driver is:
Add the repo from the community list
Open software manager and the driver should be added for install
I always double check it all matches my kernel
Eg; if you use kernel-desktop, the the nvidia install is matching.
So you say you added the driver and now get a blank screen?
Lets remove what you added.
Boot to level 3
https://forums.opensuse.org/entry.php/112-How-to-Start-openSUSE-12-3-with-Grub-2-into-Run-Level-3
Login
Then do:
su -
to become root
Then type: yast
You can use this to remove what you added. It’s keyboard navigation though.
I’m not sure what you mean by this. I’ve always installed the nvidia driver in the way described at https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_the_hard_way
But if it can be installed via YaST that does seem somewhat simpler
It is both simpler and auto recompiles on kernel updates.
Okay, I worked out what this meant. There aren’t any drivers specificaally for GEForce GTX 550 video cards, so I’m going to have to install it the hard way. How would I disable the nouveau driver in the kernel in order to manually install the nVidia driver?
Added: Would any of the other drivers work? Does anybody know?
Thanks for the reference on how to edit the boot command. I didn’t need a mode 3 boot. I just temporarily removed the parameter from the boot command, enabling me to log in as normal and remove it permanently.
G03 drive should work It is good for almost all above 8xxx. Only the very very latest may not work. And yes NVIDIA uses a funky numbering system where 8xxx is lower then 5xx.
Go figure marketers 
Oh ****, no wonder I get confused.
This gets more complicated. I updated the nVidia driver through YaST, rebooted, and now I’ve got a very large screen.
What do I do about this? I seem to remember something called “nvidia-settings”. I also recall there’s sometimes a problem in detecting the correct size of a monitor if its connected through a KVM (which mine is). I think the last time this happened I directly connected the monitor to the PC then saved the settings it read. But I can’t remember how to save them.
Anyone got any ideas?
nvidia setting can help. But if the problem is not getting info back from the monitor you may have to set the some stuff in /etc/X11/xrog.conf.d directory Also you may need to set things in the desktop settings.
So what pixel size do you want to run monitor?
For info sake, it would be nice to see
rpm -qa | grep nvidia
But
I would prefer to have all nvidia stuff removed
Can you do it like this (this assumes you use kde and your yast UI is like this)
http://paste.opensuse.org/90866665
If we can do this and reboot, you should be back to no nvidia. And we can revisit the installation
Thanks for the suggestion. I’ve not done it yet because I thought the problem was with my KVM. As I said, I recall having this problem before. What happened is that openSUSE attempts to read the size of the screen directly from the monitor, but instead reads the KVM. What I previously did was to directly connect the monitor to the PC then save the size somehow via nvidia-settings. I’ve forgotten where I looked to see how to save the dimensions of the screen, but, at the moment, I could survive with a direct connection.
So I disconnected the monitor from the KVM and connected it to the PC. Disaster, in that KDE will not load (it doesn’t even show an initial screen) and I get a console login. So I’ve reconnected the KVM and rebooted with the same results.
I’ve obviously done something, but I can’t recall what. Any ideas of how to diagnose the problem?
Sorry for all the questions, but I got out of my depth a few posts ago.
Have a look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log and/or post it.
Probably the nvidia driver is not working fully or at all.
Can you run nvidia-settings?
Maybe you connected the monitor to the wrong connector? Do you have an onboard graphics chip as well?
Connect the monitor directly, then shutdown, connect it via KVM again (so that the system boots) and post /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old. That should contain the log from the previous, failed, boot then.
The driver was working when I first rebooted having installed it. That was how I got the wrong sized screen.
How do I look at a file in bash? I’m afraid years of KDE has made me lazy.
Can you run nvidia-settings?
I ran it when I first installed the nvidia driver, so it worked then.
Now it says “The control display is undefined”.
Maybe you connected the monitor to the wrong connector? Do you have an onboard graphics chip as well?
Connect the monitor directly, then shutdown, connect it via KVM again (so that the system boots) and post /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old. That should contain the log from the previous, failed, boot then.
I’m connected at the moment through the KVM, and the connections are the same as previously.
How would I post a file using bash? (I’m posting this on another machine.)
If nvidia-setings does not run something is wrong with the driver
You can print a file to the screen like this:
cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log
As it will be quite long, use this to have a paged display (press SPACE for the next page, BACKSPACE for the previous one):
less /var/log/Xorg.0.log
I ran it when I first installed the nvidia driver, so it worked then.
Now it says “The control display is undefined”.
So it worked first, but not any more? That’s strange. Are you booting to “recovery mode” maybe?
I’m connected at the moment through the KVM, and the connections are the same as previously.
How would I post a file using bash? (I’m posting this on another machine.)
It won’t be easy to post this via bash.
But I thought you do get a display when using the KVM?
Try to select “Recovery Mode” in “Advanced Options” (should be the 2nd entry). You hopefully should get a graphical display then, and post /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old. Maybe copy the file to an USB stick to transfer it to your other system.