Problems with sound

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Hi all!
I have a fresh install of openSuse 11.1. And I have strange problems with sound. Sometimes it works sometimes - it don’t.
At first I had error “phonon failed to work, returning to default”, or something like that. I found in this forum, that it is because of “phonon-backend-xine”. I fixed this.
But still.

  1. Then suse starts there is no starting sound.
  2. flash sometimes have sound, sometimes - don’t.
  3. running skype gives “sound:overrun” error, but still it has sound.
  4. Now psx has no sound. “sound:overrun” error.
  5. Test sound in yast - don’t work.
  6. Testing with
speaker-test -Dplug:front -c2 -l5 -twav

sometimes works.
7. Closing suse, closing sound works.
I am using that new kernel,

uname -a 
Linux linux-efu3 2.6.27.23-0.1-default #1 SMP 2009-05-26 17:02:05 -0400 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

I updated to new versiuon of drivers, like sugested in this forum. But still the same problems.

rpm -qa | grep alsa
alsa-plugins-1.0.18-6.12
alsa-utils-1.0.18-6.4
alsa-plugins-pulse-1.0.18-6.12
alsa-firmware-1.0.17-1.42
alsa-oss-1.0.17-1.37
alsa-driver-kmp-default-1.0.20.20090614_2.6.27.23_0.1-1.1
alsa-1.0.18-8.7
alsa-tools-1.0.18-1.13

justas@linux-efu3:~> cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [ICH5           ]: ICH4 - Intel ICH5
                      Intel ICH5 with AD1985 at irq 17

Alsa info script : http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=1d4a848c7c6467aef7e0b2e3a9658045ad9ca0e3

I want to work sound without error! Please help!
Btw. I am greene in linux, so if you know the solution - please tell me “step by step”.

2

Ok, I tried everything. I reinstalled suse again. And once again - no sound. I thought, that my sound hardware is broken, but:

  1. when I run suse from LiveCD - sound works.
  2. on intalled system sound works perfect only on shutting down system. I mean that sound, which is playing when you shutdown system. Maybe something from kde is working bad?
    I took alsainfo from my LiveCD system:
    wget -O alsa-info.sh http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-info.sh && bash alsa-info.sh
    I have no idea what to do.
3

Sorry for misleading - looks like on fresh installed system sound works ok.

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

works ok.
But sound test in yast still silent. But thats not important. I think those problems because of an update kernel. Or maybe because of something i KDE…?

4

At last I figured out everything.
Sound is working ok. I think because I didn’t installed last pulseaudio update. This update craches my sound. So for now this update is in my “availble updates” list.

5

that’s useful to know… hrm, is this the kind of thing a bug report should be filed for?