No Sound (pulseaudio) on Opensuse 11.2

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#1

Hello,

I would need some help please. I cannot get sound to work with my new installed Opensuse 11.2. If I check yast (sound card configuration), I can play a nice testsound. However, Kde (I am using kde 4.4.2) does not issue any sound at all.

Here the info about my system:
my alsa configuration can be found on:
http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=b0487863b388db71142fc257b614cbbdf589c111

The additional information from the shell:

tilmannw@linux-y643:~> rpm -qa '*alsa*'
alsa-plugins-1.0.21-3.3.i586
gyachi-plugin-alsa-1.2.2-0.pm.1.6.i586
alsa-1.0.21-3.2.i586
alsa-tools-gui-1.0.23-9.2.i586
alsa-firmware-1.0.23-8.1.noarch
pyalsa-1.0.22-1.1.i586
alsa-tools-1.0.23-9.2.i586
alsa-plugins-pulse-1.0.21-3.3.i586
alsa-utils-1.0.21-3.1.i586
alsa-oss-1.0.17-25.2.i586
tilmannw@linux-y643:~> rpm -qa '*pulse*'
libpulse-browse0-0.9.21-1.2.1.i586
pulseaudio-0.9.21-1.2.1.i586
pulseaudio-utils-0.9.21-1.2.1.i586
libpulse-mainloop-glib0-0.9.21-1.2.1.i586
pulseaudio-lang-0.9.21-1.2.1.noarch
libpulse0-0.9.21-1.2.1.i586
alsa-plugins-pulse-1.0.21-3.3.i586
libxine1-pulse-1.1.18.1-1.pm.37.2.i586
tilmannw@linux-y643:~> rpm -q libasound2
libasound2-1.0.21-3.2.i586
tilmannw@linux-y643:~> uname -a
Linux linux-y643 2.6.31.12-0.2-pae #1 SMP 2010-03-16 21:25:39 +0100 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
tilmannw@linux-y643:~> cat /etc/modprobe.d/50-sound.conf

options snd slots=snd-intel8x0
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alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
tilmannw@linux-y643:~>

Interestingly,

speaker-test -Dplug:front -c2 -l5 -twav

works perfect as well.
I am thankful for any help.
tilmannw

#2

One more thing:
if I log on, the xconsole gives me the following error message:

Apr 25 22:12:17 linux-y643 pulseaudio[3468]: module-alsa-card.c: Failed to find a working profile.
Apr 25 22:12:17 linux-y643 pulseaudio[3468]: module.c: Failed to load  module "module-alsa-card" (argument: "device_id="1" name="1" card_name="alsa_card.1" tsched=yes ignore_dB=no card_properties="module-udev-detect.discovered=1""): initialization failed.

maybe that is useful info as well.
Thanks for helping.
tilmannw

#3

I might suggest you disable pulse-audio, this worked for me.

Open up a Terminal session and enter su - and then the password.

At the terminal prompt enter this command.

setup-pulseaudio --disable

I got about 32 lines of text going by before it said it was finished. I restarted the PC and all was well with the world.

Thank You,

#4

Hi jdmcdaniel3

disabling pulseaudio solved the problem.
Thanks a lot for the hint!

Best wishes to Texas!
Thanks,
tilmannw

#5

Happy to help and thanks for coming back by and letting us know that this worked for you. And hello tilmannw from Texas! It is a very nice Sunday here today. It is clear and 82 degrees F by my thermometer. I wish I could bottle this stuff and let it out this summer when it 105 Degrees in the shade. lol!

Thank You,