no sound at all in openSuSE

[oldcpu]

@offshore

the situation in my pc is:

when i boot opensuse, the speaker icon the system tray has an “X” which means its muted, i unmute every control but sounds remains offline, (running the speaker-test -Dplug:front -c2 -l5 -twav no voice comes out) using the su -c ‘rcalsasound restart’ after the alsa restart i do again the test, and no voice comes out. when i run alsamixer the master volume may be in 100% but, its says from above, Item: Master [off].

then i go to yast, and just by opening the sound options, sound returns and the speaker-test works also.

also by running the store command after the restart volumes are not stored

shall i run the tsalsa script, or any other command, while i have sound and while i dont in order to see the difference?

If you obtain sound by running alsaxmixer, but lose it every time your reboot, and if su -c ‘rcalsasound’ and su -c ‘alsactl store’ don’t work for you (ie "alsctl store’ does not save your settings, and ‘rcalsasound’ does not restore your audio either), then I recommend you write a bug report on openSUSE:
Submitting Bug Reports - openSUSE

Also, I almost forgot to ask … after a reboot, did you try checking your sound with the speaker-test with root permissions? ie with:**su -c ‘speaker-test -Dplug:front -c2 -l5 -twav’**does that work?

If so, this is also a permissions problem, and is possibly solvable by adding your regular user to group audio.

[user]

I had the same kind of problem as this - managed to get sound with alsaconf/alsamixer but then lost it on reboot, even after using “alsactl restore”. I tried just about everything listed here, along with various other things from other forums but couldn’t manage to fix it.

Then just when I was ready to give up and resign myself to running alsaconf after every boot, I had a play around with kmix and for some reason, this solved the problem. (Up until then, I’d only been using alsamixer to adjust levels).

Someone on another forum with the same issue thought that “/etc/init.d/alsasound” was overwriting his “good” (i.e. saved with “alsactl store”) config upon shutdown/reboot, which seemed a plausible idea. Perhaps for some reason, saving the settings in kmix stopped this from happening…?

I don’t really know much about all this but thought I’d post just in case the above helps anyone out. As a final note, sound worked fine for me in openSUSE 10.3; only when I moved to 11 did this problem surface.

[oldcpu]

@danson

I had a play around with kmix and for some reason, this solved the problem. (Up until then, I’d only been using alsamixer to adjust levels).

There is a setting in kmix, that will restore original volumes. One can access that by going to: Kmix > Settings > Configure Kmix > Restore volumes on login and ensure that is selected (but that should be selected by default).

[user]

Thanks for the info. I had a look and it was indeed already checked.

I’m still not sure why saving the levels in kmix, rather than alsamixer, “fixed” the problem, but I’m happy that I now have reliable sound in any case.