No Sound in 11.2 KDE

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Hi,

I ahave just installed OpenSuse on my audio PC. I am having issues with sound.

I get no sound at all through my m-audio 2496 soundcard. No notifications or CD audio or video audio.

I installed alsa-tool-gui and launched envy24control which displays an output in the levels when testing in System Settings. I am outputing to S/PDIF.

Any idea where to look next ofr a solution?

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Try KDE systemsettings → Multimedia and look wether your card is set as the preferred output device. It should be the first entry in all categories.

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Thank you.

I discovered i need to have ‘show advanced devices’ checked for teh S/PDIF mode on my card to show up.

I managed to get sound output testing on all notification, audio, video etc but seem to have lost it somehow and i now get an error stating someithing along the lines of …does not work. reverting to… and pulse audio has disappeared as an option.

is there a way i can restore all sound setting back to default and start again?

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I would not put pulseaudio as the preferred device anyway, but your soundcard…

You might also try

alsaconf

before trying the KDE-settings again. It’s pretty self-explanatory.

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Hi,

I reinstalled OpenSUSE and i have got the sound working on amarok - but i’d like to use Songbird and i can’t et any sound through that.

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no sound with firefox either so it appears to be a mozilla related issue.

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Alsaconf has been depreciated for 11.2 and does not function properly in 11.2. Alsaconf tries to create an /etc/modprobe.d/sound file, but as of 11.2 that file has been replaced by an /etc/modprobe.d/50-sound.conf file, and hence alsaconf is no longer useful.

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I am very sorry, I really totally forgot about that…

It’s sad, though, ‘alsaconf’ used to be a handy tool.

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Possibly not. … Did you double check the PCM volume settings when playing a flash video (such as youtube) with firefox? On some PCs it appears that the PCM volume control is dynamically set to zero when a youtube video starts, and one must go to the mixer and move the PCM volume control up to audible levels.

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Huhh… thank you for that! I’ve just started to read the Troubleshooting… :slight_smile:

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the volume levels in alsamixer are still set to standard values whether playing songbird, youtube on firefox or music through amarok.

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Do you have motherboard sound and a separate sound card? If so, its likely firefox/flash will come out of the default sound card.

If you wish more detailed support, you need to provide more detailed information. There is guidance in the second half of the multimedia stickie as to the exact information that is most useful to provide: Welcome to multimedia sub-area - openSUSE Forums

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I generally recommend switching unneeded soundcards off via the BIOS.

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i do have onboard sound as well as my pci m-audio 2496 Audiophile card - i the onboard is disabled in the bios.

I will post more detailed information as detailed in the other thread later this evening when i have a little more time.

THanks for your help thus far.

Appreciated.

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i have decided to go back to Ubuntu on my audio machine. The sound works out of the box in forefox and songbird - only stickler is that Songbird is not in the ubunutu repos. I am sticking with SUSE on my main PC tho - everything seems to work on that!

Thank you.

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Good luck and best wishes in your Linux experiences. :slight_smile: