Did a clean install of Suse 11, and from the beginning there has never been any sound… The hardware is OK as both XP and Ubuntu have sound
have looked through the various posts in the form , tried a few suggestions , but so far no success
Any suggestions where to benign
Thank you
Charlie
Try working your way through the openSUSE audio troubleshooting guide:
SDB:AudioTroubleshooting - openSUSE
If you have no success there, then can you provide more information on your configuration? Please, with your PC connected to the internet copy and paste the following into a gnome-terminal / konsole:
wget http://home.cfl.rr.com/infofiles/tsalsa && su -c 'bash ./tsalsa'
when prompted for a password please enter your root password. Please try to accurately answer the question on the number of plugs/jacks on your PC (for example my PC has 3 i/o plugs/jacks). When the script completes it will pass you a URL. Please post that URL here.
Also, please copy and paste the following into a gnome-terminal/konsole and post the output here.
rpm -qa | grep alsa
rpm -qa | grep pulse
rpm -q libasound2
uname -a
cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound
Good luck!
old cpu
I have run the scripe … url here
Your ALSA information is located at http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=59b2f11ce373aa32d68d34d7105b6ed78ecbfa98
And the rpm user commands … need to look for the saved text
Thanks
You ran a different script. Thats not the script I asked you to run. 
It appears your mixer is misconfigured. I wish you would run the script I asked. It gives a nicer mixer summary.
Sorry about the screw up … did have a little problem getting it correct… trust this is the correct information
./tsalsa: line 169: lsof: command not found
uploading /tmp/tsalsa.txt to nopaste.com
Uploading /tmp/tsalsa.txt: #-------------------------------------------------] 0.2 Seconds
tsalsa completed in 85 seconds
paste this url in #alsa: tsalsa.txt - nopaste.com (beta)
which: no lsof in (/home/charlie/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/opt/kde3/bin:/usr/lib/mit/bin:/usr/lib/mit/sbin)
NOTICE: you need to be root to run lsof; maybe rerun tsalsa as root
Did check this out and seems OK
tsalsa.txt - nopaste.com (beta)
Charlie
Thanks, from that script I see:Amixer contents for card 0 [Intel] _____________________________________
amixer set ‘Master’,0 100% on
amixer set ‘Headphone’,0 0% off 0% off
amixer set ‘PCM’,0 0% off 0% off
amixer set ‘Front’,0 0% off 0% off
amixer set ‘Surround’,0 0% off 0% off
amixer set ‘Center’,0 0% off
amixer set ‘LFE’,0 0% off
amixer set ‘Line’,0 Mono: 0% off 0% off
amixer set ‘CD’,0 Mono: 0% off 0% off
amixer set ‘Mic’,0 Mono: 0% off 0% off
amixer set ‘Mic Boost’,0 0% 0%
amixer set ‘Phone’,0 Mono: Capture off
amixer set ‘IEC958’,0 off
amixer set ‘IEC958 Default PCM’,0 on
amixer set ‘PC Speaker’,0 100% off 100% off
amixer set ‘Aux’,0 Mono: 0% off 0% off
amixer set ‘Mono’,0 Mono: 0% off 0% off
amixer set ‘Capture’,0 Capture 0 0% off Capture 0 0% off
amixer set ‘Mix’,0 Mono: Capture off
amixer set ‘Channel Mode’,0 Items: ‘2ch’ ‘4ch’ ‘6ch’ Item0: ‘2ch’
amixer set ‘Stereo Downmix’,0 off off From that (in red) I see PCM is off. You need PCM ON, and at about 65% or so.
Also, for some hardware, one must also switch on “surround” and move up the various “surround” components (in orange). I do not know if that is the case for you (try switch ON PCM first in your mixer) but it is something for you to consider.
If after adjusting those, you still do not have sound, then we can look at a driver related solution approach.
Hi Oldcpu
Did a little work on the machine …here is the new file
This sounds stupid , but where do I make the changes you suggest
paste this url in #alsa: tsalsa.txt - nopaste.com (beta)
“”
Amixer contents for card 0 [Intel] _____________________________________
amixer set ‘Master’,0 100% on
amixer set ‘Headphone’,0 68%,68% on
amixer set ‘PCM’,0 68%,68% on “OK ???”
amixer set ‘Front’,0 68%,68% on
amixer set ‘Surround’,0 0% off 0% off
amixer set ‘Center’,0 0% off
amixer set ‘LFE’,0 0% off
amixer set ‘Line’,0 Mono: 0% off 0% off
amixer set ‘CD’,0 Mono: 68%,68% on
“”
amixer… in terminal
Simple mixer control ‘Capture’,0
Capabilities: cvolume cswitch cswitch-joined
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Capture 0 - 65536
Front Left: Capture 0 [0%] [off] these should be on ???
Front Right: Capture 0 [0%] [off]
on the correct track ??
Charlie
In kde-3.5.9 I use kmix. Are you using gnome ? kde4 ? kde3 ?
Your PCM looks better.
Try test your sound with this sound test (copy and paste into a gnome-terminal or konsole):
speaker-test -Dplug:front -c2 -l5 -twav
Also try switching ON your surround sound setting …
here is the results of the sound test
charlie@desktop:~> speaker-test -Dplug:front -c2 -l5 -twav
speaker-test 1.0.16
Playback device is plug:front
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 2 channels
WAV file(s)
Rate set to 48000Hz (requested 48000Hz)
Buffer size range from 64 to 16384
Period size range from 32 to 8192
Using max buffer size 16384
Periods = 4
was set period_size = 4096
was set buffer_size = 16384
0 - Front Left
1 - Front Right
Time per period = 2.732482
0 - Front Left
1 - Front Right
Time per period = 3.071849
0 - Front Left
1 - Front Right
Time per period = 2.901592
0 - Front Left
1 - Front Right
Time per period = 3.072059
0 - Front Left
1 - Front Right
Time per period = 3.071754
charlie@desktop:~>
The sound is barely audible… and speaker vol is 100 %
Where do I set the surround ???
Charlie
Typically one can adjust the volume in one’s mixer. The kde3 mixer is kmix. The Gnome mixer is alsamixer.
Do not forget to go to YaST > Hardware > Sound > Other > Volume and move the slider bars there up to around 70%.
OldCpu
Thank you for pointing me in the correct direction… audio is acceptable … Getting adjusted to another distro… has a few glitches
Now to get the dvd and youtube video.s to work
what is your view on “codecs-gnome.yum”
Charlie
Depends on where you live in the world and how draconean the enforcements law. Basically, my view is uuccckkkkk. 
Immediately after an installation (assuming I have internet) I always setup my repositories (repos) as the next thing, adding 4 and only 4 repos. I add OSS, NonOSS, Update and Packman. And no others. None. If others are needed because of an app, I will add the other repos briefly, install the app, and immediately remove the other repos. This takes seconds with the use of the “zypper ar < url > some-name” and “zypper install package” and “zypper rr some-name” commands.
Info on how to add the 4 repos is here:
Repositories/11.0 - openSUSE-Community
Info on using zypper is here:
Zypper/Usage/11.0 - openSUSE
And once my repos are setup, I obtain my codecs off of the packman packaged libffmpeg0 (and get some more exotic codecs off of w32codec-all ). I do this by:su -c 'zypper install smplayer mplayerplug-in libxine1 xine-ui libffmpeg0’you may need to remove xine-lib first.
Some basic opensuse concepts:
Concepts - openSUSE
For youtube I use both flashplayer and mplayerplug-in (which means add smplayer/MPlayer). For dvd you will need libdvdread3 and libdvdcss2.
libdvdcss2 can be tricky to find. It is architecture/opensuse version independant, so a version built for openSUSE-10.2 should work on 11.0. Hence you can get it by noting the command in the white print and black background here: Restricted Formats/10.2 - openSUSE-Community
just copy and paste that to install.
followed the information on adding multi media play libs and codex… Can play most of the online videos , do have a problem playing dvds after installing the win32codex and libcss
will be working to get all the mult media files working
Charlie
I’ve read the latest packman packaged vlc (v.9.1) has a problem playing dvd’s on some PCs. Indeed on my PC it has a problem playing mpeg files (it stutters). I rolled back to vlc v.8.6 and the problem went away.
Try playing dvds with smplayer or kaffeine.