Sound problem

English Hardware
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Hi all,
I have problem with my soundcard. It worked before, but (maybe after upgrading) now it is “muted”. Everywhere I have 100% volume (Master, PCM, etc.) but still no sound. I’ve discovered in Yast2 > Sound > Other (combobox) > Volume, thah all channels are 0. When I turn it up, for example “Front” channel, sound is working! But after pressing Ok, it doesn’t work again! When I pres that Volume button once more, all channels are 0 again. Is there some known bug for this?
Thanx for responding. Lukas

PS: My sound card is integrated on my motherboard, Intel ICH9 family, 82801l, HD Audio Controler

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What happens when you get the sound working with YaST, press OK, and then after YaST is closed, open a Gnome-Terminal / Konsole and run a speaker test with root permissions? ie **su -c ‘speaker-test -Dplug:front -c2 -l5 -twav’**note that is case sensitive, and don’t forget to type the single quote before “speaker-test” and after “twav”.

If that works, then simply add your regular user to group “audio” as a work around, and restart to test.

I don’t know. Lets check out this user root possibility first.

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ok, I’ve tried
su -c ‘speaker-test -c2 -l5 -twav’
but again, sound was muted…

After clicking Yast2 > Sound > Other > Volume and turning up “Front” bar I’ve heard that speaker test… After pressing OK button sound was muted again - IMHO nothing was saved. Can I set that preferences in some cfg file or sumthin like that?
Thank you for your reply. L

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Can you try it in this order:

  1. Yast2 > Sound > Other > Volume and turning up “Front” bar I’ve heard that speaker test… After pressing OK button
  2. Test audio with: su -c ‘speaker-test -c2 -l5 -twav’ #ie with root permissions
  3. if that audio test worked, save your alsa settings with: su -c ‘alsactl store’
  4. then test sound as a regular user, and if no sound, add your regular user to group audio, then log out of linux and log back in linux, and test your sound
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This works! thanks!
su -c ‘alsactl store’ saves my settings and when I clicked on:
Yast > Sound > Other > Volume - the volume bar was at the same position when I saved it. I think there is a bug, that Ok button is not working…

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Perhaps. Now that you mention it, I recall a couple of other users encountering this. ( … but strange,… most do not. I wonder if it is hardware specific? ). Can you write a bug report on this?
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