No sound after upgrade to 11.3 from 11.2

Hi,

I need some guidance to get my sound working again. It worked on my 11.2 installation although I had some problems then too.

The installation I use is running in vmware 2.0. It’s running on a laptop which I use for my company. Since the company only support xp I don’t want to overwrite that installation with opensuse. Since I like opensuse personally I use it within vmware for my personal purposes (during evenings/weekends). Beside I have opensuse running on physical hw for file/printing/mail purposes which is used by the whole family.

The sound 11.3 produces is garbled. I did followed the advice in ‘SDB:Audio troubleshooting’. What I notice is that speaker-test is producing this output:


speaker-test 1.0.23

Playback device is default
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 1 channels
Using 16 octaves of pink noise
Rate set to 48000Hz (requested 48000Hz)
Buffer size range from 2048 to 16384
Period size range from 1024 to 1024
Using max buffer size 16384
Periods = 4
was set period_size = 1024
was set buffer_size = 16384
 0 - Front Left
Write error: -32,Broken pipe
Write error: -32,Broken pipe
Write error: -32,Broken pipe

Alsa output configuration: http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=e223bcc1a64d1fbbeac8393cd809e0a52bd6f12f

rpm -qa 'alsa


alsa-oss-1.0.17-29.2.i586
alsa-utils-1.0.23-1.8.i586
alsa-1.0.23-2.12.i586
alsa-firmware-1.0.23-1.2.noarch
alsa-plugins-1.0.23-1.9.i586

rpm -qa ‘pulse

libpulse-mainloop-glib0-0.9.21-9.2.i586
libpulse0-0.9.21-9.2.i586
libxine1-pulse-1.1.19-1.pm.44.3.i586

rpm -q libasound2

libasound2-1.0.23-2.12.i586

uname -a

Linux linux-xm8f 2.6.34-12-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT 2010-06-29 02:39:08 +0200 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

/etc/modprobe.d/50-sound.conf

options snd slots=snd-ens1371
# LHB6.FGsk7T8RAT9:Creative Sound Blaster AudioPCI64V, AudioPCI128
alias snd-card-0 snd-ens1371

Thanks in advance for you advice.

vmware ? I can’t help there.

Hopefully someone else will chime in.

Migrated the machine to virtual box, there it works.

VBox sound works fine for me also. I found a gotcha though, at least on 11.3 When trying to play music on Banshee or Totem at the same time that VBox is on. Apparently the sound drivers cannot be used for all simultaneously. If VBox has them, then Banshee and Totem does not.