I found KDE4.3 RC2 gave sound on 11.1 but not on 11.2-M3 so thought it must
be 11.2 that was the problem. I set up another user instead of my
operational one, just in hope. Set-up in YAST hung so killed it but it had
worked.
I logged on to the new user and, lo and behold, the sound worked - at least
the start-up chimes did, I didn’t try anything else. No switching off “mute”
needed - not that that had worked anyway. I logged out.
Logged back to op session and - muted sound and none when un-muted. Thought
“what’s the difference?” The only thing I could see was that I used the KDE
splash start-up screen on the op version and the default OpenSUSE on the
test one. So I switched splash screens and logged out.
I logged back on to test user to see if I could get video and sound on
FF3.5. Found it worked on the BBC.
Logged back to op session with SUSE splash screen and was greeted by the
chimes. Also able to tune to BBC and watch/hear the Open.
I suspect the change of splash screen is a red herring but it’s the only
thing I changed. Weird!
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Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks., UK. E-mail: newsman not newsboy
“I wear the cheese. It does not wear me.”
> BenderBendingRodriguez wrote:
>
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>> I discovered that using a specific model in YaST>Hardware>Sound helps a
>> lot. Leaving it just blank doesn’t help
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> Up and till I changed the splash screen, I might just as well have had the
> model blank.
>
Yes, that’s the fix to the sound - so far. On another machine I installed
11.2 and did all the updates. No sound. The splash screen was the default
SUSE screen so I changed it to the default KDE - the exact opposite switch
to what I made on the other machine - and rebooted (logoff/on might have
been enough). The session started and the chimes rang out.
So that’s the fix - or a fix - but why does it work? Would any change to
System Settings work?
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Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks., UK. E-mail: newsman not newsboy
“I wear the cheese. It does not wear me.”
I have a hp pavillion dv7 and some sound issues with milestone 3. the biggest one is that the internal speaker and the headset don’t switch to one another when I plug in the headset. I have to reboot every time both when I insert and when I unplug the headset.
I found in this site ( Tutorial for installing Ubuntu Linux on HP Pavilion Laptops | Nobody was Born with Linux Knowledge ) the solution is to modify alsabase.conf in ubuntu. but in open suse there is no such file. what can I do instead?
solved!
in Yast I choosed soundcard and edited my ich9 controller. I added the option enable_msi and value 1
I did’n t give any value to the model (hp-dv5) because it disabled the sound volume control on the keypad (don’t know why though)
don’t forget to reboot after saving!
… alsabase.conf is an Ubuntu approach. In openSUSE up until 11.1, there is a file /etc/modprobe.d/sound. But it appears that commencing in 11.2 that file may have had its name changed to /etc/modprobe.d/50-sound.conf.
