Opposite to most complaints of not being able to close KMix, I can’t get KMix to open. I click on it, it shows up in the taskbar, the cursor shows its bouncing icon for 5-10 seconds, then it goes away before the window actually pops open. It isn’t in the system tray, and consequently I can’t hear sound. Strangely, it works fine when I’m logged in as root, and I can hear the startup sound when I turn on the machine/log in…
Any ideas?
You could try working your way through the openSUSE audio troubleshooting guide: SDB:AudioTroubleshooting - openSUSE
Note step-6 of that guide for fixing a permissions problem: SDB:AudioTroubleshooting - openSUSE - how to fix a permissions problem
… be certain to restart your PC after adding your regular user to group audio.
If that does not help, please note that to determine if you have sound, please copy and paste the following speaker-test into a Gnome terminal or a kde konsole: speaker-test -c2 -l5 -twavYou should hear a female voice saying ‘FRONT LEFT’, ‘FRONT RIGHT’ five times.
If you have no success with the audio troubleshooting guide, then I will need more information if I am to make a recommendation … So can you provide more very detailed information so a good recommendation can be given? You can do that, with your PC connected to the internet, by opening a gnome-terminal or a kde konsole and typing:
/usr/sbin/alsa-info.sh
that will run a diagnostic script and post the output to a web site on the Internet. It will give you the URL of the web site. Please post that URL here. It may be that you need to run that script with root permissions. Please note that I need that output to understand better your PC’s configuration.
Also, please copy and paste the following commands one line at a time into a gnome-terminal or a konsole and post here the output: rpm -qa | grep alsa
rpm -qa | grep pulse
rpm -q libasound2
uname -a
cat /etc/modprobe.d/soundI also need that output. Hopefully with that I can make a good recommendation
I had gone through most of that guide, but apparently I had missed the permissions part because that solved it. Thanks for your help!
Great ! Congratulations.
Thanks for sharing your solution.