Sound suddenly stopped working

Hi, my sound wont work anymore after weeks of doing just fine, also i have quickly tried my live cd again and sounds works fine there. My system specs are:

OpenSuSE 12.1 KDE 64bits
SoundBlaster Audigy SE, driver snd-ca0106

Some tests I have done:

zanqdo@linux-6jqi:~> speaker-test -Dplug:front -c2 -l5 -twav

speaker-test 1.0.24.2

Playback device is plug:front
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 2 channels
WAV file(s)
Playback open error: -16,Device or resource busy

Also installed pavucontrol and I can actually see the stream of sound working (bar moves) but no sound

On 02/07/12 05:06, ZanQdo wrote:
>
> Hi, my sound wont work anymore after weeks of doing just fine, also i
> have quickly tried my live cd again and sounds works fine there. My
> system specs are:
>
> OpenSuSE 12.1 KDE 64bits
> SoundBlaster Audigy SE, driver snd-ca0106
>
> Some tests I have done:
>
>> zanqdo@linux-6jqi:~> speaker-test -Dplug:front -c2 -l5 -twav
>>
>>
>> speaker-test 1.0.24.2
>>
>>
>> Playback device is plug:front
>> Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 2 channels
>> WAV file(s)
>> Playback open error: -16,Device or resource busy
>>
>
> Also installed pavucontrol and I can actually see the stream of sound
> working (bar moves) but no sound
>
>

In the kde settings
Go to multimedia and check the sound settings there, that you have the
preferred device set correctly

Please check that any speaker cables are properly connected.

Can you please provide the output URL/address provided at the end of running the following diagnostic script (with PC connected to the Internet):


/usr/sbin/alsa-info.sh

Doing that will allow us to review your PC’s audio configuration.

Here’s the output

http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=17b2201ed9b4008de0c92670308b31ff74dc0864

I’m positive my speakers are connected properly since Live CD worked fine

Nothing strikes me as obviously wrong in that output. I do note HDMI is marked as card-0 and your audigy as card-1.

The likely explanation (which you note you checked) is sound is coming out of the wrong device. Please double check the ‘pavucontrol’ settings for each audio application.

Did you try something as simple as :


aplay -vv somefile.wav

where ‘somefile.wav’ is some wav file that you select.

Hi, the sound device priority is set like it was when everything worked fine. However I did test changing priorities and nothing…

Here’s the weird part, i feel kinda stupid suggesting this but i think it all started when i powered off my PC a couple days ago, I didn’t want the logout sound to awaken the neighbors so i tried to press the lower volume button in the keyboard, however in the hurry I actually pressed the Mute key. Now i repeat this was while the pc was shutting down

Could this be the culprit :s maybe it muted something but the correct mute flag was not set since at that moment the system shut down. Is there a way to completely reset the sound system so that it works like when I installed from scratch?

thanks

Daniel S

In older openSUSE versions, one could , after a fresh reboot, restart the sound system with the command, with root permissions:


rcalsasound restart

I don’t know if that is still the case.

Sorry, what was the answer to this question ?

Oh sorry, here’s the output of the terminal

PasteAll.org

also tried the [LEFT]rcalsasound restart, no luck

thank you, i’m beginning to think i’m gonna have to reinstall…

edit: I’m also on irc channel by the same name if you guys happen to be there :)[/LEFT]

Have you tested with the liveCD since the problem started ?

Yep, that’s what I meant :slight_smile: to discard any hardware failure or cable problem etc I tried live CD and it worked instantly

I see two possibilities:

a. you have installed something that has broken the audio - possibly a new kernel with a bug - imho this is not very likely, or

b. somewhere on your PC your audio has been configured to be muted. Possibly in your desktop settings, possibly elsewhere. IMHO you need to recheck all settings (desktop, pulse audio, mixer … ) to try and determine which of those has muted the audio.

Yah well I figured that far but coudnt find anything… I have now re-installed my machine and I’m listening to music as we speak

thanks