After much reading and experimenting, I finally got the sound to work on an install of 11.1. So now, I have a few issues remaining:
The Pulseaudio Volume Control freezes when I actually try to use it to set volume or click on the menu.
The start up sound plays but is choppy. The desktop sound scheme seems to have no problems.
Any streaming audio is choppy also. I could equate this to a very slow, old machine - this is more of a test box - but just thought I’d throw that one out there as well.
I went thorough the SDB:AudioTroubleshooting and the Alsa-update page for openSUSE-11.1 which is how I got this far.
I had already gone through the first 6 and just tried step 7 - no change. Still getting the choppy sound.
I meant to post the following in the first place but forgot. Not sure if these are related or not. I found a lot of information on the errors as bugs but no real solution:
Mar 23 07:40:29 backup1 pulseaudio[20899]: main.c: High-priority scheduling enabled in configuration but not allowed by policy.
Mar 23 07:40:29 backup1 pulseaudio[20899]: core-util.c: setpriority(): Permission denied
Mar 23 07:40:29 backup1 pulseaudio[20899]: ltdl-bind-now.c: Failed to find original dlopen loader.
Mar 23 07:40:38 backup1 gnome-session[20717]: WARNING: Application ‘libcanberra-login-sound.desktop’ failed to register before timeout
Mar 23 07:40:38 backup1 gnome-session[20717]: WARNING: Could not launch application ‘gnome-volume-manager.desktop’: Unable to start application: Failed to execute child process “gnome-volume-manager” (No such file or directory)
Mar 23 07:40:40 backup1 pulseaudio[20975]: pid.c: Daemon already running.
I’m posting/replying just for the record, in case someone else has a solution, but they are waiting for my reply. I have no other solutions than pointing you to those references in the guide.
I suppose you could remove pulse audio, but that is not something I have done, so I can not provide any guidance there.
Is there an option for sound other than pulseaudio that isn’t so difficult to configure? I have found lots to indicate the same problems but nothing has worked so far in my case.
pulse audio is sort of an interface layer between alsa and one’s desktop/applications. Take a read of the sound concepts wiki I wrote: Sound-concepts - openSUSE
Did you try to change the audio output module of some of your apps to use the alsa api, instead of pulse or auto? … but in truth, I should not suggest that, as I have no idea if it will help, and it may be a complete waste of your time to try such things.
I checked out the page - thanks - a good explanation.
For now I am going to look into some possible hardware solutions as well as a few other error messages:
Mar 25 22:30:44 backup1 pulseaudio[4801]: main.c: High-priority scheduling enabled in configuration but not allowed by policy.
Mar 25 22:30:44 backup1 pulseaudio[4801]: core-util.c: setpriority(): Permission denied
Mar 25 22:30:44 backup1 pulseaudio[4801]: ltdl-bind-now.c: Failed to find original dlopen loader.
Mar 25 22:30:44 backup1 pulseaudio[4803]: pid.c: Stale PID file, overwriting.
Mar 25 22:30:52 backup1 gnome-session[4619]: WARNING: Application ‘libcanberra-login-sound.desktop’ failed to register before timeout
Mar 25 22:30:53 backup1 gnome-session[4619]: WARNING: Could not launch application ‘gnome-volume-manager.desktop’: Unable to start application: Failed to execute child process “gnome-volume-manager” (No such file or directory)
Mar 25 22:30:54 backup1 pulseaudio[4872]: pid.c: Daemon already running.
and about 30 of:
pulseaudio[3600]: asyncq.c: q overrun, queuing locally