Hello,
congrats with the new opensuse 13.1 but…
I have a question maybe someone can help me out here.
Installed opensuse 13.1 from the dvd.
everything works fine but only pavucontrol give me a segfault, while starting normally(clicking icon from menu), and starting up from command-line.
Its a straightforward install, packages are all installed (so far i know), and packman is added and did an update wit zypper up/dup.
Greetings from Holland.
Same problem here, also Yast crashes when i try to run an update on pulse audio
Me, too, on the segfault. This a full install of 13.1 KDE 32-bit, using the DVD iso on a USB stick, formatting both / and /home. Starting pavucontrol in a terminal gives
howard@X41-os131:/usr/share/applications> pavucontrol
Segmentation fault
howard@X41-os131:/usr/share/applications>
It works fine on the same hardware with 12.3
Regards,
Howard
Indeed same thing happening on my acer 5315, works fine with 12.3, 13.1 runs fine but gives strange faults, reinstalling, changing user permits, even reinstalling with tarball gives no solution, all packages are fine, repos are fine.
Strange, also volume % in Kmix doesn’t stay the way it should, every reboot %=0, and sound isn’t enabled.
Did give pulse audio the -D argument, but it isn’t running.
regards Hendrik.
Was getting tiered of pulseaudio so…
I did uninstall everything that has to do wit pulse, removed the folders under user, installed alsa, and guess what?
Kmix behaves normally, % of the volume stayed the way i like it, and amarok is playing nice with his own equalizer.
Hardware is also recognized the way it should now; (HDA intel ALC 268) .
greetings Hendrik.
It could be you are missing some pulse packages.
pavucontrol works here, though I reviewed first
the pulse packages before installation.
This are the packages for pulse in my machine.
alsa-plugin-pulse
libpulse-mainloop-glib0
libpulse0
paprefs
pavucontrol
pulseaudio
pulseaudio-module-gconf
pulseaudio-module-x11
pulseaudio-utils
audacious-plugins-output-pulse
I am using xfce 4.10 and using a simultaneous sound
from hdmi, usb audio and the built-in audio
I have audacious installed so I added the
audacious-plugins-output-pulse
To add
All packages installed from the 13.1 dvd.iso
I was missing paprefs and pulseaudio-module-gconf from your list. I installed them, which pulled in libgconfmm-2_6-1, libglademm, libglademm-2_4-1, libgtkmm-2_4-1, and paprefs-lang. However, there was no change in pavucontrol. It still gives the segmentation fault.
Regards,
Howard
I have all of the files listed plus a few more, jack plugin, etc, and pavucontrol still crashes. In fairness my experience with 13.1 is mostly what I expected and I prefer opensuse over any other distribution. Things that went wrong:
no nvidia drivers in repositories yet - fixed by installing drivers from nvidia’s web page
created new repositories for multimedia
skype is broken with the new pulse audio, there is a fix that i found, opening skype from a terminal with PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=60 skype, the downside is that I can make only one call and i have to shut down skype and start it again for another call
Aside from those things and pavucontrol everything is working very nicely and i look forward to the fixes when they come along
In bugzilla, this is marked resolved, with the comment “The fix is on the way.” It should get into the update repository soon.
Cheers,
Howard
Thats great, thanks for the update,
greetings Hendrik.
This is fixed with today’s recommended YaST 13.1 update to pulseaudio. The update is for 10 packages. Pavucontrol now works on my 32-bit system.
Cheers,
Howard
Good to hear, happy listening to your audio.
It turns out the fix for 13.1 32-bit KDE pulseaudio breaks pulseaudio for 13.1 32-bit gnome. See https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853383
So, gnome folks, do not apply pulseaudio the update.
Regards,
Howard
There was no “fix for 13.1 32-bit KDE pulseaudio” (there isn’t anything like KDE pulseaudio anyway… 
).
It was a “fix” for pulseaudio in general, so that pavucontrol (a Gtk application!) does not crash anymore, but that fix unfortunately caused other programs on 32bit systems to crash (including GNOME), because they are compiled against the older pulseaudio.
So, gnome folks, do not apply pulseaudio the update.
The update has already been removed from the update repo.
Finally today with zypper up i did got the latest update for everything to do with pulseaudio,
Pavucontrol works great, in KDE.
greetings Hendrik.
What repository did you use, and what version number installed?
I have 4.0.git.270.g9490a-4.1 from 25 Nov that was subsequently removed. The only other version I see is 4.0.git.270.g9490a-1.1 dated 20 Oct, in the Main Repository.
Thanks,
Howard
2.0-2.2.1-i586 van home:tiwai: pa-fix-13.1 obs://build.opensuse.org/home:tiwai
The fixed version of pavucontrol for 32-bit KDE 13.1 (4.0.git.270.g9490a-6.1) is in repository Index of /repositories/home:/tiwai:/pa-fix-13.1/standard I installed that version of the following packages:
libpulse-mainloop-glib0
libpulse0
pulseaudio
pulseaudio-module-bluetooth
pulseaudio-module-gconf
pulseaudio-module-jack
pulseaudio-module-lirc
pulseaudio-module-x11
pulseaudio-module-zeroconf
pulseaudio-utils
plus
pavucontrol 2.0-2.2.1
pavucontrol-lang 2.0-2.2.1
from that same repository.
To get AF32 bluetooth headphones working in pavucontrol, I had to remove them from the bluetooth configuration and add (pair) them again. Before doing that, the headphones did not appear in pavucontrol, and sound went to the speakers. After removing and adding, the headphones were there to select, and they work.
Cheers,
Howard
I’m watching all the developments around the Pavu Control segment fault for over a month. Although the Index of /repositories/home:/tiwai:/pa-fix-13.1/standard/i586 repository is a fix for the PulseAudio Pavu Control segmentation fault, in my case it causes a KDE conflict:: crash within KDE “Multimedia > Audio and Video Settings”.
Did anybody experienced this anomaly; any medicine for that?
Thanks,
Michael J