I have had no sound in Opensuse 11.1 since installing on a new slave hard drive. I kept Windows XP on the master drive. I am using a Soundblaster sound card. After installing 11.1, I came upon information about a more recent Dell Dimension 8300 bios and updated from A02 to A07. Not sure what that did, but after installing A07 and turning off the sound within A07, I can now get test sounds out of 11.1. However, still no sound when playing internet videos, for example. Someone suggested posting the following information in a thread for others to see and possibly send comments to me.
Not sure what to do with the info.
linux-ki6s:~ # $ls mod
The program ‘mod’ can be found in following packages:
Do any of them work? Its very common for only 1 of the 3 to work, which means your sound is functioning. Or by “tone” are you referring to sound coming out of the pc’s cheap integrated speaker, and not the nominal speakers?
Thank you OLDCPU. I followed you instructions and downloaded the items as specified in your response. Now I am wondering if I need to actually tell some of these audio packages to take over? If so, then how do I do this?
I tried rebooting the system, but still get no sound when playing something like an internet video.
I believe I have the 4 respositories and all software. Just need to know what to do with it!
Thanks,
Paul
Playback device is plug:front
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 2 channels
WAV file(s)
Rate set to 48000Hz (requested 48000Hz)
Buffer size range from 32 to 8192
Period size range from 16 to 4096
Using max buffer size 8192
Periods = 4
was set period_size = 2048
was set buffer_size = 8192
0 - Front Left
1 - Front Right
Time per period = 2.945287
0 - Front Left
1 - Front Right
Time per period = 2.986536
0 - Front Left
1 - Front Right
Time per period = 2.986510
0 - Front Left
1 - Front Right
Time per period = 3.071563
0 - Front Left
1 - Front Right
Time per period = 2.986441
The Internet is a big place. What site does not provide you internet video? Most Internet sites work with Linux, but not all. Some web sites are still tuned to work exclusively with MS-Explorer.
I typically get most of my internet video by having smplayer, MPlayer, mplayerplugin-in and flash-player installed, plus the various codecs from having w32codec-all and libffmpeg0 installed.
Also, I tried playing a DVD and apparently Totem is my default movie player. Totem did not play the movie. It gave me a error message: G streamer installation is missing a plug-in.
Can you play videos from any site? How about youtube?
I suspect your problem is because of Totem and gstreamer.
I don’t use Totem. I don’t use gstreamer. I never have.
I use flash-player and mplayerplug-in. That is what I recommended. And it can play videos with audio from both CNN and msnbc. As for pbs, I am not convinced they stream to European ip addresses, and I don’t want to waste my time messing with a site that I never watch to figure it out.
But it looks clear to me your problem is Totem. If it were me , I would dump it and go with a video player that provides audio that ‘just works’. MPlayer and mplayerplug-in with flash-player work for me.
I can play CD’s and hear the audio! I still can not play audio from any web sites.
How do I make flashplayer and mplayer my defaults? I’ll bet once I do that things will work! We are getting closer all the time!
I’ve never had to reconfigure away from totem and its plugin, because I’ve never installed it. Instead I’ve installed smplayer and mplayerplug-in and flash-player and my audio and video “just worked”.
You are going to have to figure this out. If it was me trying to fix a relative’s PC, and assuming they had mistakenly installed totem and totem-plugin from packman (and I note there are other totem packages for openSUSE from different web sites with different names) I would either :
go to Firefox > Edit > Preferences > Applications and ensure the applications that once pointed to totem now point to “Use mplayerplug-in 3.55 (in Firefox)” and possibly Firefox > Edit > Preferences > Main > Add-ons > Manage-Add-Ons > Plugins, and “disable” any totem plugin and I would ensure that mplayer is enabled and/or
remove totem and totem-plugin and re-install smplayer (and its dependencies including MPlayer) and mplayerplugin-in and flash-player
But thats speculation on my part, as I’ve never had to do this. YOU will need to figure this out.
After installing the sound card manually in XTERM, using su and then the root passward and then alsaconf, I was able to get sound on internet sites. It appears it needs to be done for each user, as the first time I did it, I did so as root, but the sound from internet sites only worked on root. Once logged in as a user, I performed the same routine in xterm and was again successful in getting sound from internet site video clips.
I logged off and back on, and again had sound.
I also have sound on DVD’s when playing in VLC player.
When I try to open a DVD with mplayer the error message I get reads: SEEK FAILED.
So it appears the adventure has been a success. It would be nice to have mplayer operational also. If you have any clues, send them my way.
