sound issue on SUSE 11

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Hello, i am a beginner on SUSE 11 and when I just installed it I met an issue on sound, it is strange and I followed the instruction on
SDB:AudioTroubleshooting - openSUSE
but it does work.

My laptop is Lenovo t61 with Intel 82801 chipset. I thought
SUSE may recognize this sound card and install drivers for it automatically. However, I met the following problems.

  1. No sound when log in or log on, none of the system sound.
  2. VLC has no sound
  3. I cannot hear the test sound at Yast/Hardware/Sound/Others
  4. I can hear the sound by
    speaker-test -Dplug:front -c2 -l5 -twav
  5. when I input alsamixer, it says:
    *** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection refused

alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: Connection refused

I doubt the drivers of sound card was installed incorrectly.
But I ran alsaconf and, it does not work, though it tells
me that it configured my card successfully.

I am going to be crazy about this problem. Hope some people
can kindly assist me to solve it. Thank you:’(

2

Try to remove pulseaudio and go back to esound…maybe that helps…

I have sound problems on OS 11 too and nobody helps.

3

i cannot remove it…
I heard the bug about pulseaudio and I tried but
it told me that a file libpulse.so.0 is needed…
do you know how to remove it?

4

Are you logging in as a normal user or root? If you’re logging in as a normal user, try logging in as root and see if your sound works then.

5

i tried as root, no work :frowning:

6

I just got back from vacation, and I am going through the various sound support threads to see if I can help at all.

I note that if you here sound with this speaker test, then your sound works.

When playing multimedia with openSUSE, do not forget that Novell/SuSE-GmbH do not provide nominal support for restricted formats, and that one has to install applications from a 3rd party packager such as Packman to replace the Novell/SuSE-GmbH packaged versions, in order to get their sound working for various multimedia files.

I recommend you setup your repositories with ONLY oss, non-oss, update and packman. No others. NONE! There is guidance on how to do that here for openSUSE-11.0:
Repositories/11.0 - openSUSE-Community
… again ONLY oss, non-oss, update and packman. No others. NONE!

Once that is setup, you can install non-crippled packman packaged multimedia with:
zypper install smplayer libxine1 amarok vlc
[note thats a BIG download]

If you believe your sound configuration is still incorrectly setup, then you will need to provide more information for users on this thread to examine the configuration. In that case, please start by copy and pasting the following diagnostic script into a gnome-terminal / 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

7

I had the same issue. I uninstalled all pulseaudio apps. from my system. Updated alsa from the opensuse repository and now I have sound. Everything works. For me ALSA is fine and I found it hard to to configure pulseaudio on top of ALSA.

8

I just uninstalled pulseaudio (at least the alsa-plugin-pulseaudio package) and then ran alsaconf again. Afterwards I had sound working.

This is what I believe is happening. The plugin configures alsa to use a virtual device provided by pulseaudio. When alsaconf runs, it finds this virtual device and writes down its’ configuration.

That would explain why when I uninstalled the plugin and ran alsaconf the card actually played the sound test. I’m sorry I can’t be 100% sure of this but I guess it wouldn’t hurt to uninstall the plugin, run alsaconf and speakertest again. :\