I’ve just switched to 11.4 from 11.3 with zypper dup. Now I have no sound whatsoever. I had a problem getting the sound to work when I started using 11.3, but on 11.4 those exact same settings don’t work. When I try “speaker-test -Dplug:front -c2 -l5 -twav” I get no errors, but still no sound. I have a Gigabyte P55A-UD4P motherboard with intel core i7 which I have connected to stereo with optical cable. I do not even have pulseaudio installed, as that was just another headache.
Searching through the SDB, wiki, forums, etc. did not lead me to anything useful yet, but if anyone has a suggestion I would be very grateful.
I’ve just switched to 11.4 from 11.3 with zypper dup. Now I have no sound whatsoever. I had a problem getting the sound to work when I started using 11.3, but on 11.4 those exact same settings don’t work. When I try “speaker-test -Dplug:front -c2 -l5 -twav” I get no errors, but still no sound. I have a Gigabyte P55A-UD4P motherboard with intel core i7 which I have connected to stereo with optical cable. I do not even have pulseaudio installed, as that was just another headache.
Searching through the SDB, wiki, forums, etc. did not lead me to anything useful yet, but if anyone has a suggestion I would be very grateful.
Cheers!
If you maintained a separate /home hard disk partition, I would try a clean install, but modify the setup to mount your home area, but to not format it. All of your personnel settings will be maintained, but you do need to reload all of your old applications. As for Audio, the new setup uses Pulseaudio by default and the Phonon GStreamer Backend. I am not sure what you end up doing with what you suggest, but it may not work. A clean install is your best bet and using the default Pulseaudio, until you know more about the new KDE 4.6 environment.
There are changes in the openSUSE audio setup between 11.3 and 11.4. Before attempting a re-install, I recommend you give ‘pavucontrol’ a try. Install that application. Then run it with ‘pavucontrol’ and see if you can tune in your audio.
Are there any dependencies for that app which zypper doesn’t automatically install? When I try to run it (after reboot) I get the pop-up error “Connection failed. Connection refuse.” Even with root privileges.
It could be the digital output is muted (you said you are using optical cable).
Have a look in the mixer that you are using
Please post more information about your sound set-up.
Sorry, but I’m not super familiar with all of the various settings and apps. Could you be more specific about what to check, and what information you need.
No worries.
I’m using KDE. The two options I have in kMix (Redwood HDMI Digital Stereo & Internal Audio Digital Stereo (IEC958)) are both unmuted. I prefer to use the optical cable plugged directly into the motherboard out.
Sorry. Still no sound, nothing since I changed to 11.4. The IEC958 is enabled in kmix. Are there other places that I need to enable it too, or does kmix take care of that for me?
It looks like you are using the
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: ALC889 Digital [ALC889 Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Can you look for it in the pavucontrol configuration
I am not using that setup I am using HDMI so there is difference and can’t compare with yours.
On top of that, first time I use this pulseaudio. If you have the alsamixer installed can you check if S/PDIF is muted or not? In alsamixer press F6 to choose the soundcard.
In pavucontrol all I can find in the Redwood HDMI audio (from video card) and “Internal Audio Digital Stereo (IEC958).” Those are the only two options that I see, I’m guessing the latter is hopefully the device I want. Both are unmuted, and I’m unable to get sound. I have the IEC958 preferred (I think, it’s new to me as well).
I just checked again in alsamixer, and S/PDIF is not muted.
I’m not sure if this will work for you
This is the configuration to enable my hdmi to work with pulseaudo. Actually hdmi works with pulseaudio here in mplayer, audacious, and smplayer but parole and flash only plays with the analog onboard card. So searching everywhere I found this to work with my setup. We will try to adopt this if you won’t mind but not sure if it will work.
In /etc/pulse/default.pa as su
add this:
### Load digital device
load-module module-alsa-sink device=hw:0,1
Reboot your computer and test your sound. If still will not work
In /etc as su create a file and name it asound.conf and paste this
I just tried both of those, to no avail unfortunately. I assume I should undo both, unless you know of some reason not to. Are there any other settings or hardware info that would be helpful, other that what I’ve already posted?