yet another no sound in amarok
amarok and firefox produce no sound. so i read thru multiple ‘no sound in xxx’ posts.
i’m running an updated (as of 6 aug 09) suse 11.1
note that sound in suse10, ubuntu, et al, on the same h/w work just fine.
what i did:
tried amarok as installed and updated, on 1st run, it asked for the location of the music collection. i mounted the disk where the collection resides (read only, if it matters). all the files in the selected directory are .wav files.
two issues:
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nothing displayed in the ‘entire collection’ window under the ‘collection’ tab. we’ll ignore this for the moment, as i can use the ‘files’ tab to surf to a particular file, click a file, and amarok says its playing.
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no sound
speaker-test works great, but only as root.
i added the packman repos to s/w mgmt, clicked ‘filter repositories’, then clicked ‘Packman’. i then checked/installed the following:
amarok, amarok-xine, amarok-packman, libxine1, xine-ui, smplayer, mplayerplug-in, vlc, w32codec-all, libffmpeg0, ffmpeg, libquicktime0, libxvidcore4, xvidcore
yast reports all of these as having ‘pm’ in their installed version.
i ran alsaconfig, several loud pops in the headphones, other than that, no problems.
i ran alsamixer -c0, turned up and un-muted all but mic. before the packman install, this worked. after the install, it resulted in an error:
alsamixer at this point will not run:
function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or directory
running applications->multimedia->sound mixer results in the loading cursor for about 30 sec (ps -ef shows /usr/bin/kmix -caption KMix -icon kmix), then kmix appears to exit.
run amarok, click settings, configure, engine, select xine as the sound engine, alsa as the output. a popup error msg says
unable to initialize any audio drivers
very often, amarok crashes at this point.
using auto as the output doesn’t help.
now, speaker-test crashes with
$ speaker-test -c2 -l5 -twav
speaker-test 1.0.18
Playback device is default
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 2 channels
WAV file(s)
ALSA lib confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card ‘0’
ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
plus many other errors.
at this point, i think the sound system is completely hosed.
suggestions?
