Running KMix from the terminal didn’t make any difference for me. If I go to YaST > Hardware > Sound and delete my sound card and reconfigure it, sound works, but only for the current session.
If you think this is a permissions problem, add you user to group audio.
If you think reconfiguring the sound card works for the current session, then instead restart alsa by typing:
su -c 'rcalsasound restart'
and enter root password when prompted.
It could be some process upon booting (in KDE-4.3.80) is grabbing the audio device and not sharing it, and by restarting alsa you will force it to be let go by that badly behaved process. Running as root may also be forcing its use where a regular user does not have the permissions.
I note the title in this thread is for an "update to KDE 4.3.80 (KDE 4.4 Beta1) ". Please note for beta software, we have a different sub forum area: Pre-Release/Beta - openSUSE Forums
We created that subforum because having complaints about beta software in the main forum area can create a wrong impression for many users about the overall functionality of an application, and it is also a different category of support.
For example, I typically do NOT like installing beta software on my operational PCs, and hence I do not like supporting beta software. Users who like supporting beta software typically frequent our “Pre-Release/Beta” sub forum area.
I do not see anything related to KDE-4.3.80 in this dmesg, unless the controls that can not be built are controls for KDE_4.3.80 ?
When installing Beta releases, if there is no obvious problem with one’s setup when a problem is encountered, then one likely needs to write a bug report into the appropriate application’s bug tracking entry system.
I added audio to my user and now sound works at start up. I posted above that I couldn’t find it but that was because I was looking in the wrong place. I have another install of 11.2 where sound works without me doing this and audio isn’t listed for my user name. Weird.
As the person who opened this thread my problem wasn’t resolved !!!
running /etc/init.d/alsasound restart didn’t solve the problem
My sound card is configured via YaST
but running kmix, I get the following messages, and kmix is empty
kmix(26025) Mixer::setGlobalMaster: Mixer::setGlobalMaster() card= "ALSA::HDA_Intel:1" control= "PCM:0"
kmix(26025) Mixer_ALSA::openAlsaDevice: "Trying ALSA Device 'hw:0': " found
kmix(26025) Mixer_ALSA::openAlsaDevice: "Trying ALSA Device 'hw:1': " not found: snd_ctl_open err= No such file or directory
kmix(26025) Mixer_ALSA::openAlsaDevice: "Trying ALSA Device 'hw:2': " not found: snd_ctl_open err= No such file or directory
kmix(26025) Mixer_ALSA::openAlsaDevice: "Trying ALSA Device 'hw:3': " not found: snd_ctl_open err= No such file or directory
kmix(26025) Mixer_ALSA::openAlsaDevice: "Trying ALSA Device 'hw:4': " not found: snd_ctl_open err= No such file or directory
kmix(26025) Mixer_ALSA::openAlsaDevice: "Trying ALSA Device 'hw:5': " not found: snd_ctl_open err= No such file or directory
kmix(26025) Mixer_ALSA::openAlsaDevice: "Trying ALSA Device 'hw:6': " not found: snd_ctl_open err= No such file or directory
kmix(26025) Mixer_ALSA::openAlsaDevice: "Trying ALSA Device 'hw:7': " not found: snd_ctl_open err= No such file or directory
kmix(26025) Mixer_ALSA::openAlsaDevice: "Trying ALSA Device 'hw:8': " not found: snd_ctl_open err= No such file or directory
kmix(26025) Mixer_ALSA::openAlsaDevice: "Trying ALSA Device 'hw:9': " not found: snd_ctl_open err= No such file or directory
kmix(26025) Mixer_ALSA::openAlsaDevice: "Trying ALSA Device 'hw:10': " not found: snd_ctl_open err= No such file or directory
kmix(26025) Mixer_ALSA::openAlsaDevice: "Trying ALSA Device 'hw:11': " not found: snd_ctl_open err= No such file or directory
kmix(26025) Mixer_ALSA::openAlsaDevice: "Trying ALSA Device 'hw:12': " not found: snd_ctl_open err= No such file or directory
kmix(26025) Mixer_ALSA::openAlsaDevice: "Trying ALSA Device 'hw:13': " not found: snd_ctl_open err= No such file or directory
kmix(26025) Mixer_ALSA::openAlsaDevice: "Trying ALSA Device 'hw:14': " not found: snd_ctl_open err= No such file or directory
kmix(26025) Mixer_ALSA::openAlsaDevice: "Trying ALSA Device 'hw:15': " not found: snd_ctl_open err= No such file or directory
kmix(26025) Mixer_ALSA::openAlsaDevice: "Trying ALSA Device 'hw:16': " not found: snd_ctl_open err= No such file or directory
kmix(26025) Mixer_ALSA::openAlsaDevice: "Trying ALSA Device 'hw:17': " not found: snd_ctl_open err= No such file or directory
kmix(26025) Mixer_ALSA::openAlsaDevice: "Trying ALSA Device 'hw:18': " not found: snd_ctl_open err= No such file or directory
kmix(26025) Mixer_ALSA::openAlsaDevice: "Trying ALSA Device 'hw:19': " not found: snd_ctl_open err= No such file or directory
kmix(26025) Mixer::getGlobalMasterMD: Mixer::masterCardDevice() returns 0 (no globalMaster)
kmix(26025) MixerToolBox::initMixer: "Sound drivers supported: ALSA + OSS
Sound drivers used: ALSA"
Total number of detected Mixers: 0