I have installed SuSE 11 yesterday and so far - I must admit - it’s not too bad.
Unfortunately, two major issues won’t vanish after spending some hours of googling, reading and trying…
1.) Realtek AC850 Sound Card (onboard@ASUS A8N-SLI)
won’t make a sound. It actually HAD been working after installing ALSA but then suddenly after soem hours it stopped.
2.) Hauppauge WIN-TV Nova Stick is recognized and drivers are installed but it says “no tuner”…
As I am a Linux/Suse noob, please tell me what (and how) I should provide for getting further help as I do not think you can give a solution with just having this information.
Strange is that the sound works perfectly in Skype where I can also use my microphone without experiencing any problems. What should I do to have my sound working anywhere else?
What is your criteria for saying that your sound does not work elsewhere? What happens when you run this sound test (copy and paste this into a gnome-terminal or konsole): speaker-test -Dplug:front -c2 -l5 -twav
and if that fails, try with root permissions:
su -c ‘speaker-test -Dplug:front -c2 -l5 -twav’ enter root password whem prompted.
You should hear a female voice saying “front left”, “front right” five times.
But I do not have any sounds in Pidgin (which used to make sounds yesterday), no sound while watching a video on youtube, no sound while playing an mp3 using VLC (which seems to be playing the file).
The sound only works properly in Skype. In Skype itself in the setting I switched from “default device” to NVIDIA CK08.
This could be a codec problem (re: mp3 ) and could be a plugin problem (re: youtube).
My recommendation is to first setup your software package manager repositories with 4 and only 4 repositories (repos). That is: OSS, non-OSS, Update and Packman. Only those 4. No others. None. When you learn more about the risks of adding others (and what they can break) they you can consider adding others, but not until then. I recommend you go here: Repositories/11.0 - openSUSE-Community
and setup for OSS, non-OSS, Update and Packman. Only those 4. No others. None.
Once that is done, then replace the Novell-SuSE/GmbH packaged xine-lib with the packman libxine1, replace the videolan packaged vlc with the packman packaged vlc, replace the videolan packaged libffmpeg with the packman packaged libffmpeg, and install the packman packaged smplayer, Mplayer, flash-player, and mplayerplug-in.
Hi, thanks for the further help. I have configured the repositories as recommended and am ready to replace/install the packages. Just one thing: By replace do you mean
a) first deinstall one, then install the other
b) install with deinstalling and force changes necessary for the new package
/E: It is impossible to either remove xine-lib or install libxine1. In both cases appear conflicts that cannot be solved - whatever I choose, they reappear.
It is possible. Its a matter of technique and learning a bit more about how the openSUSE software package manager works.
Simply mark xine-lib for removal, but before “applying” the update, mark “libxine1” for install. For that software change, only change those applications. Once that is complete, you can make other software changes.
Ok, this first one worked But I simply cannot install the packman packaged vlc… There are sp many conflicts and I tried just some randomly and it always reappears… :sarcastic:
Anyway maybe this would be a solution: I am fine with formatting the drive and installing Suse 11 another time - I have not done really that much so far.
If I do so, what should I do to be able to use my sound card properly? First would be to define the repositories and then install alsa and then? Or with other words: What have I done wrong before?
You should be able to simply remove vlc (from videolan) and install vlc from packman. Again, you can and should do both at the same time, with NO OTHER apps.
But I recommend BEFORE you change videolan (from videolan to packman) you do the same with libffmpeg0.
What problems?? If it is this dependency hiccup, then re-install is not the Linux way. A re-install is a complete waste of time if that is all you are having problems with.
All you will do is re-install, and then have a similar problem again, where a lack of knowledge will make you think another re-install is needed. … and then another … and another … and another (and then decide to try another distro, or go to a mac, or go to windows … etc …). Its best IMHO to learn now how things work and save time.
I don’t agree, but its your PC. SuSE-11.0 does install fairly fast.
I don’t know what you have done wrong. You need to tell me. … What repos did you add?
After I do an installation, the very 1st thing I do is get my Internet functioning. The second thing I do is setup my repos (OSS , Non-OSS, Update and Packman). The 3rd thing is tune my desktop. The 4th thing is setup my sound (for some nice background music), and I install many apps off of packman (smplayer, Mplayer, libxine1, xine-ui, mad, amarok, libffmpeg0, vlc, … etc … ) . But thats just me.
Ok, I have set up a the whole system another time which means formatting the hdd and installing suse 11 again.
When suse opened for the first time, the sound was already working! (and everything was fine, e.g. youtube).
But after some time, the sound vanished again although I did not install anything that might cause a conflict with the sound… The volume in my gimp bar suddenly switched to mute which I can unmute but still hear no sound.
The sound test is running but I do not hear any sound.
Any suggestions? (at least no package conflicts this time I guess/hope)
You could try disabling the onboard sound and working your way through the openSUSE audio troubleshooting guide: SDB:AudioTroubleshooting - openSUSE
If that doesn’t work for you, then we will need more information:
i.e. if after trying the audio troubleshooting guide, you still do not have sound then we will need more information on your hardware/software setup in order to help with sound … ie …with your PC connected to the internet, please start by copy and pasting the following diagnostic script into a gnome-terminal or konsole with your PC connected to the internet:
wget http://home.cfl.rr.com/infofiles/tsalsa && su -c 'bash ./tsalsa'
and when prompted for a password enter your root password. Please try to accurately estimate the number of jacks/plug you have when asked (for example, I have 3 i/o sound jacks on my PC), and when the script is complete it will give you a URL. Please post that URL on this thread.
Also, in addition to the above, please copy and paste the following commands one line at a time into a gnome-terminal / konsole and paste here the output of these commands: rpm -qa | grep alsa
rpm -qa | grep pulse
rpm -q libasound2
uname -a
cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound
Are you using gnome or kde? and if kde, which kde version? kde3? kde4?
Hey, thanks for all your help - finally got it working now. I only experience a harsh sound about 2 seconds after playing a sound/song/video (this sounds like plugging/unplugging a sound device at high volume).
Though I can live with that issue, maybe anyone has a suggestion to fix it?
… What repos did you add?