Sound Problems

Hi.

I am trying to get the sound working in openSUSE 11.1. SUSE is a very cool distro BTW.

I have installed the RPM from Webpin, and insured that the alsa drivers are installed:
alsa, alsa utils, and alsa firmware

However, I get no sound.

I checked within Yast, and there is still no sound card listed.

Any ideas? Any idea where to begin atleast?

Thanks for your time.:slight_smile:

Have you tried alsaconf?

sudo alsaconf

Well, welcome to openSUSE.

For helping users with non-functioning sound, I typically recommend that they try working your way through the openSUSE audio troubleshooting guide: SDB:AudioTroubleshooting - openSUSE

Don’t forget to try YaST > Hardware > Sound to configure your sound card. Also, don’t forget to try ‘alsaconf’ in a konsole/terminal if YaST does not help you.

Note, when testing if you have sound, please copy and paste the following speaker-test into a Gnome terminal or a kde konsole:

speaker-test -Dplug:front -c2 -l5 -twav
Note Linux is case sensitive, and “D” is not the same as “d”. To stop the above test, while the konsole/xterm has the mouse focus, press <CTRL><C> on the keyboard. Note you should check your mixer settings (kmix if using KDE, and alsamixer if using Gnome) to ensure that PCM and Master Volume are set around 95%. Once you have basic sound established you can back off to lower volume levels. Note the test for surround sound is different.

If that test yields errors (and its not uncommon to get errors there), try instead this more simple test: speaker-test -c2 -l5 -twavYou should hear a female voice saying ‘FRONT LEFT’, ‘FRONT RIGHT’ five times. Its quite common that one of those speaker tests will work and one will NOT work, so don’t be distressed if that is the case. IF that test gives sound, stop now, post that the sound test gives sound, and we will look at other possible causes for your applications not giving you the sound you want (such as missing codecs, using the wrong packaged version … etc … ).

Try those speaker-tests as both a regular user, and with root permissions. If you have a headset, try with your headset plugged in, and also with your headset not plugged in (for speakers).

Assuming after your trying to get sound working, after having gone through each applicable step in the troubleshooting guide, and if still no sound, can you provide more very detailed information so a good recommendation can be given? If using openSUSE-11.1, you can do that, with your PC connected to the internet, by opening a gnome-terminal or a kde konsole and typing “su” (no quotes - enter root password) and then and typing and executing twice :
/usr/sbin/alsa-info.shthe first time it will ask to update. Select YES for the update. The second time that will run a diagnostic script and post the output to a web site on the Internet. It will give you the URL of the web site. Please post that URL here. JUST the URL.

Also, please copy and paste the following commands one line at a time into a gnome-terminal or a konsole and post here the output: rpm -qa | grep alsa
rpm -qa | grep pulse
rpm -q libasound2
uname -a
cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound… with that information I may be able to make a recommendation (as opposed to a guess).

Please advise if you do not know how to open a konsole or terminal.

THANKS!

Got it working. Updated ALSA, downloaded the XFI from: webpin, and it is running fine now.

On Mon May 18 2009 10:16 pm, EntropyTTU wrote:

>
> THANKS!
>
> Got it working. Updated ALSA, downloaded the XFI from: webpin, and it
> is running fine now.
>
>
EntrophyTTU;

Congratulations and welcome to the OpenSuse community. It looks like you have
both sound and printing working now. If you have any additional problems
feel free to ask, there are many volunteers who can help.

–
P. V.
“We’re all in this together, I’m pulling for you.” Red Green