Lo All,just completed a mostly successful install of opensuse 11. Everything seems to be working except my sound. I have a Creative sound blaster audigy SE 7.1 PCI card.
In Yast>Soundconfigure it reads
SB Audigy LS
• Configured as sound card number 0
• Driver snd-ca0106
and as far as I can tell nothing is muted. BTW where is the terminal in SUSE? I am coming from Ubuntu just so you know…
Alt-f2 will get you a command line box. You can type ‘xterm’, ‘konsole’ for KDE desktop, or ‘gnome-terminal’ for gnome desktop.
This thread might be of help to you with getting your sound working.
Its not showing my device in the volume control>change device,only the driver
When testing your sound, please copy and paste the following into a gnome-terminal / konsole as the test:
speaker-test -Dplug:front -c2 -l5 -twav
Please ensure you have alsa-firmware installed.
rpm -q alsa-firmware
If not, you can (and should) setup your repositories by following this guidance: Repositories/11.0 - openSUSE-Community add only OSS, NON-OSS, Update and Packman (you can update others when you understand the implications better as a more advanced user - I myself only keep the 4 I mentioned).
Then install alsa-firmware with:
su -c ‘zypper install alsa-firmware’
Then reboot and try again. Be certain to try the link/thread deano_ferrari noted. If that doesn’t work, go to YaST > Hardware > Sound and configure/test your sound. If you have a test sound, but no sound as a regular user, then its a permissions problem and you can solve that by applying the work around from here (adding a regular user to group audio):
SDB:AudioTroubleshooting - STEP-6:__How_To_Fix_a_Permissions_Problem
Note in that case, after applying the fix, you need to log out and login of X to have it applied (probably easiest for a newbie to reboot).
and if neither of those work, then please follow the opensuse audio troubleshooting guide from start to end:
SDB:AudioTroubleshooting - openSUSE
again, in all cases, use the sound test given above, and check your mixer as recommended here [Solution] Creative Audigy 1/2 + 11.0 + KDE/GNOME + ALSA - openSUSE Forums](http://forums.opensuse.org/hardware/386773-solution-creative-audigy-1-2-11-0-kde-gnome-alsa.html)
When testing your sound, please copy and paste the following into a gnome-terminal / konsole as the test:
speaker-test -Dplug:front -c2 -l5 -twav
@linux-bdmf:~> 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 32 to 16384
Period size range from 16 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 = 2.733389
0 - Front Left
1 - Front Right
Time per period = 3.072254
0 - Front Left
1 - Front Right
Time per period = 2.902009
0 - Front Left
1 - Front Right
Time per period = 3.072492
0 - Front Left
1 - Front Right
Time per period = 3.072127
working on the rest…
bdmf:~> rpm -q alsa-firmware
alsa-firmware-1.0.16-24.1
Did this (speaker-test -Dplug:front -c2 -l5 -twav)as root, to check the permissions, here are the results:
# 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)
Playback open error: -16,Device or resource busy
Playback open error: -16,Device or resource busy
Playback open error: -16,Device or resource busy
Playback open error: -16,Device or resource busy
Playback open error: -16,Device or resource busy
Playback open error: -16,Device or resource busy
Playback open error: -16,Device or resource busy
Playback open error: -16,Device or resource busy
Playback open error: -16,Device or resource busy
Playback open error: -16,Device or resource busy
Playback open error: -16,Device or resource busy
which continued till I hit cntrl c with no sound…
This suggests your sound is working. Did you then go here:
[Solution] Creative Audigy 1/2 + 11.0 + KDE/GNOME + ALSA - openSUSE Forums](http://forums.opensuse.org/hardware/386773-solution-creative-audigy-1-2-11-0-kde-gnome-alsa.html)
and follow the advice given?
Yeah I did,but I didnt seem to have the options she suggested.
I get :CA0106 (alsa)
and one other for mixer. Audigy is not listed like in hers.
Also I only have one paired scrolebar, for IEC958
I went to link :SDB:AudioTroubleshooting - openSUSE You suggested and worked through to step 2. I deleted my config as suggested, and when I went to add it back I had 2 close matches to choose from. Creative>SB Audigy and SB Audigy Ls. This is under yast>hardware>sound
SB Audigy LS
• Configured as sound card number 0
• Driver snd-ca0106
I tried deleting and re-adding everything. Restarted, did su alsaconf…I hear crackles when the card is initialized, but no test sound. I feel like the problem lies in the fact that I only have one slider in my options when I follow [Solution] Creative Audigy 1/2 + 11.0 + KDE/GNOME + ALSA - openSUSE Forums. somewhere along the line I dont have a mixer or something. I believe I am using gnome and not kde BTW. Sorry for this,I am still a noob at linux.
I tried opening alsamixer in terminal and go this:
~> alsamixer
*** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection refused
alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: Connection refused
if that helps:confused:
No worries …
I think in order for me to provide any more help, I will need a lot more detail on your PC, as this piece meal approach does not appear to be working.
Please, with your pc connected to the internet, copy and paste the following diagnostic script into a gnome-terminal:
wget http://home.cfl.rr.com/infofiles/tsalsa && su -c 'bash ./tsalsa'
and when prompted for a password, enter your root password. When it is complete it will give you a URL. Please post that URL here.
Please also copy and paste the following commands into a gnome-terminal and paste the output here:
rpm -qa | grep alsa
rpm -qa | grep pulse
rpm -q libasound2
uname -a
cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound
I also note there is an update for the ca0106 on the alsa site, so dependant on what the above shows, it may be worth while my walking you through an alsa update: Search results - ca0106 search - AlsaProject
Got it,dont know why dont know how,but I got sound…Thanks all!!:eek: