I’m using openSUSE 11.1 and MSI K9N6PGM2 motehrboard which works good except the sound. Everytime I start this error message pops up.
Phonen
The audio placyback device HDA NVidia (ALC888 Analog) does not work. Falling back to default.
So I can’t get any sound from youtube or the games but when I log out/shut down it plays a little song. So at least something work.
SDB:AudioTroubleshooting - openSUSE
Check settings in Yast - Hardware - Sound
also the mixer in the panel - check the Master Channel and mixer switches
This is what it says
mattias-linux:/home/mattias # speaker-test -c2 -l5 -twav
speaker-test 1.0.18
Playback device is default
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 2 channels
WAV file(s)
Rate set to 48000Hz (requested 48000Hz)
Buffer size range from 2048 to 8192
Period size range from 1024 to 1024
Using max buffer size 8192
Periods = 4
was set period_size = 1024
was set buffer_size = 8192
0 - Front Left
1 - Front Right
Time per period = 2.851072
0 - Front Left
1 - Front Right
Time per period = 3.007871
0 - Front Left
1 - Front Right
Time per period = 3.008024
0 - Front Left
1 - Front Right
Time per period = 3.008096
0 - Front Left
1 - Front Right
Time per period = 3.029235
mattias-linux:/home/mattias #
And
mattias@mattias-linux:~> speaker-test -Dplug:front -c2 -l5 -twav
speaker-test 1.0.18
Playback device is plug:front
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 2 channels
WAV file(s)
Playback open error: -16,Device or resource busy
Playback open error: -16,Device or resource busy
Playback open error: -16,Device or resource busy
Playback open error: -16,Device or resource busy
Playback open error: -16,Device or resource busy
^C
I don’t have an old sound card and I said I can get the log out sound but not the others
Does that give you sound?
Clearly, that does NOT give you sound. But its typical that only one of the 3 tests in the troubleshooting guide give sound.
Did you try this recommended test, which is a link from the troubleshooting guide:
SoundcardTesting - AlsaProject
The fact that your log out sound works suggests to me your sound is ok, and this is likely a problem with either your mixer setup (check master, PCM and speaker volumes are set high in your mixer) or with your codecs for nominal multimedia applications.
Some news to the problem. I tried to tweak the mixer set up (like oldcpu said) by right clicking on the speaker symbol in the right corner of KDE 4.1.3 (Plasma) and turned everything on 3D surround and stuff. Then I pushed quit which I thought was save and exit. But now I suspect that it was exit the program. Then I tried youtube and I got sound. But it wasn’t loud enough so I thought that it was because the little speaker on the right corner only were at 77%. The icon was gone so I tried to find the program using YaST/hardware/sound and then the sound disappeared.
My theory is that when I log off openSUSE turns the speaker symbol program off before it plays the log out sound. That’s why I hear it. Can that be true?
No
What do you mean?
he means, have you carefully followed:
Multi-media and Restricted Format Installation Guide - openSUSE Forums
I’m not done with that yet but I saw two problems with it
Videolan VLC 11.1 links to 11.0 but that can easy be corrected by the user by replacing the 0 with 1 in the URL.
Packman thing isn’t an URL but if you click the link and copy the URL it should work, right?
Correct
We’ll fix that link
It seems like that did the trick. The sound works.
Should be good now
Great! Congratulations.
If its any consolation, this typically (with the occasional hiccup) only gets easier and easier the more and more familiar one becomes with openSUSE.