No Sound

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Have a Fujitsu Lifebook S6120 upon which I have installed Windows XP, Mandriva 2009.0 Free and openSUSE 11.1.

Sound works OK for both windows and Mandriva but I get nothing from SUSE (speaker symbol has a cross though it - muted), Unmuting and then trying a test automatically mutes it.

Both Mandriva and SUSE use the Intel 82801DB-ICH4 (ALSA “SND_intel8x0” driver).

Any one got any ideas?

thanks

Halil

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Right click mixer in sys tray
Select Master Channel
Try Master or PCM

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Well both options doesn’t disable the speaker, but still no sound. Notice on logging on a quick message relating to the sound card / driver and switching to default but the message is on the screen for such a short time that I can’t capture it fully. Further assistance would be appreciated.

Many thanks

Halil

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I’m currently on vacation, and not able to provide much detailed assistance.

Try working your way through the openSUSE audio troubleshooting guide: SDB:AudioTroubleshooting - openSUSE

If that does not work, then post here. Sometime toward the end of next week I will be able to provide more detailed support (when I am back in the continent where I nominally live).

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Well, we’re getting there.

Initial speaker test given in the quoted document tested the right and left speakers OK. So checked permissions - my account did not have appropriate permissions, granted as per step 6 of the document.

Restarted and still saw the old error message:

Audio playback device hw:0,0 does not work. Falling back to default.

If I show the mixer, front speaker is muted, un-muted, Going to YAST and trying step 2 had no effect. Rebooted, still got no sound. Used the PC for other tasks and then decided to call it a day, on shutting down got a tada sound - first time I’ve got anything. Restarted the computer, no sound again, same error message and speakers muted, un-muted and tried to play an audio CD - nothing. Heard of banshee as a media player so installed.

Now I can play audio CDs - for some reason does not auto play have to launch the application but atleast I can listen to my CDs. Testing through YAST still gives nothing and on entering the KDE I need to continually UNMUTE and still see the error every time.

Can’t play DVDs - need an application software? and how do we get things to autorun?

thanks

Halil

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Reference, falling back to default, this is a known bug. I believe a number of users have reported this. There are a more than a fewthreads here, where users have posted solutions that worked for them:

No sound anywhere? Or just no startup sound? Did the speaker test give sound? You need to be more precise, if you wish to figure out what is happening

Ok, thats good to see progress.

How about the speaker test?

There is a bug in YaST and for some sound cards the yast sound test does not work.

I believe your sound is now functioning correctly and it is your total unfamiliarity with openSUSE that is causing you these hiccups.

I can’t provide any specific advice now, as I am still on vacation with less than dial up speeds . I’ll be back home before the weekend, and if you are still having problems then, post here and I’ll try provide some help.

But note for repositories for your software package manager I recommend ONLY oss, non-oss, update and packman and no other repositories. Adding more, at your current stage of openSUSE familiarity is likely going to cause you many problems.

you need livdvdcss from the videolan repository (and then immediately remove the videolan repository from your repository list afterward - that is important). You also need libdvdnav4 (from oss) and libdvdread3, libdvdread4 (from packman). I use vlc, and/or kaffeine, and/or smplayer to play dvds.