I’ve been using opensuse for about a week.(although I’m not completely a linux noob) I’ve been slowly moving more of the stuff I do on windows over to suse. I thought my sound was working fine until I decided to get mp3s running on amarok. I followed a bunch of guides which didn’t work. While I was messing around with stuff I noticed a startup noise. I just assumed it didn’t have a startup noise. At some point I broke all of my sound except running wine, so I reinstalled.
Now that I’ve noticed, none of my notification sounds work. Stuff like skype, firefox, and wine still give me sounds. Any help to fix this would be appreciated.
(If anyone could point me in the direction of a good place to get mp3s working on amarok would be nice as well.)
For your sound, check the device you have selected under “Configure Desktop” > Multimedia. Also check the backend you have selected there (I use the xine backend).
Test doesn’t give me any sound on any of them. In backend I’m using xine and it’s my only choice. I still have sound on firefox, and I haven’t tried wine for sound yet.
Have you installed libxine1 from Packman (to replace the Novell/SuSE-GmbH packaged libxine1 ? ). I also recommend you install (packman packaged version) of libffmpeg0 (it will pickup a bunch of codecs) and w32codec-all.
You can tell packman packaged versions by the “pm” in the version number.
Ok I did that and now mp3s are working, and when I go to notifications I can test and hear them now. Only thing is I don’t get the sound when I log in or out.
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> caf4926;2126848 Wrote:
>> Please check this
>> ‘Multi-media and Restricted Format Installation Guide - openSUSE
>> Forums’ (http://tinyurl.com/yedhhr7)
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>> and do this
>> http://tinyurl.com/yejwull
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> Ok I did that and now mp3s are working, and when I go to
> notifications I can test and hear them now. Only thing is I don’t
> get the sound when I log in or out.
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> Thanks all for the help.
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Did you check Configure Desktop–> Look & Feel -->Notifications __>
Event Source use pull down arrow on right and select KDE SYStem
Notification and see if a sound is selected for Log out and Log in.
Should be a circle with Arrow in it on left side be the above names.
If not select it by highlighting clicking the check box “play a
sound”
Take a look at YaST > Hardware > Sound and if more than one device the order of devices there … and ensure the order of devices under Kickoff-Launcher > Configure Desktop > General > Computer Administration > Multimedia are consistent.
When I test the first 2 nothing plays (although it was playing sound last time I tested). When I test pulseaudio it says it doesn’t work, and nothing plays either. As far as I’ve noticed all the sounds been working except startup noises and amarok. (Other players like kaffiene are still working.)
