I’m using openSUSE 11.4 x86_64. Today I came home from work and opened up Banshee… and to my surprise, nothing came out of the speakers. This morning everything worked just fine and my computer was left untouched since then. I found out that sounds works fine in Ubuntu and Windows 7, but in openSUSE… nothing. Well I tried deleting my sound card in YaST, and then reconfigured it. I used the Quick Automatic Setup option and then played a test sound. It worked so I opened Banshee again and picked a song to play… and still nothing.
Running speaker-test in Terminal returns no errors and no sound. In superuser terminal it returns “Playback open error: -111,Connection refused” and mplayer (in superuser terminal) returns “[AO_ALSA] Playback open error: Connection refused.”
Are there some additional steps I should take to diagnose and/or troubleshoot the problem? I only know the problem is native to openSUSE, my speakers and sound card are both functional and sound works fine in Ubuntu 10.10 and Windows 7.
I would really like to know what happened when I deleted the sound card, how the configuration got corrupt and how I could fix it without using a tool to automatically configure it. The auto-reconfiguration must have fixed something; I was going to reboot to Ubuntu so I could at least listen to music for now, and I left my computer so GRUB automatically booted into openSUSE. I came back and didn’t give it a second thought before realizing sound was functional again.
But this thread isn’t completely useless! I would still like to find out why my sound card configuration got messed up, and how YaST fixed it!
I think that one’s gonna remain forever a mystery mate
How is anyone supposed to tell you what used to be stopping something from working when the condition doesn’t exist anymore because now it IS working, and without knowing that I expect it would be virtually impossible to figure out what caused that condition in the first place
The Playback open error: -111 isn’t much use because allsorts of things can cause it and crystal balls are in short supply round here
