[opensuse] audio trouble in Opensuse 10.3 ... after login
I'm a fairly new Linux user who is completely new to Opensuse. I have recently installed the Gnome desktop version of Opensuse 10.3 to an old Compaq Presario desktop computer that also can boot up in Windows 2000. When I login the desktop icon for the volume control has a red X. When I click on it I get the following error message: "This volume control did not find any elements and/or devices to control. This means either you don't have the right GStreamer plugins installed or that you don't have a sound card configured." The YaST sound configuration window shows that the ESS1988 Allegro-1 was configured as sound card number 0. It also lists the driver as snd_maestro3. So that seems like the card is being found. Most bizarre to me is that in the login window when my cursor is in the empty field in which to type my user name, I can hit the backspace key and get a healthy beep out of the speakers as if the sound card is correctly configured and ready to work and somehow the login process disrupts that, because after logging in I can get no sound whatsoever out of the speakers. I'm looking for any suggestions and I'm willing to provide any information that would be helpful. Please remember that I am something of a beginner, so please try to keep that in mind when advising me. Thank you. Gene Anderson in Taiwan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 24 November 2007 01:16, Gene A. Anderson wrote:
I'm a fairly new Linux user who is completely new to Opensuse. I have recently installed the Gnome desktop version of Opensuse 10.3 to an old Compaq Presario desktop computer that also can boot up in Windows 2000.
When I login the desktop icon for the volume control has a red X. When I click on it I get the following error message: "This volume control did not find any elements and/or devices to control. This means either you don't have the right GStreamer plugins installed or that you don't have a sound card configured."
The YaST sound configuration window shows that the ESS1988 Allegro-1 was configured as sound card number 0. It also lists the driver as snd_maestro3. So that seems like the card is being found.
Most bizarre to me is that in the login window when my cursor is in the empty field in which to type my user name, I can hit the backspace key and get a healthy beep out of the speakers as if the sound card is correctly configured and ready to work and somehow the login process disrupts that, because after logging in I can get no sound whatsoever out of the speakers.
I'm looking for any suggestions and I'm willing to provide any information that would be helpful. Please remember that I am something of a beginner, so please try to keep that in mind when advising me. Thank you.
Gene Anderson in Taiwan Hi Gene,
I'm betting all works fine if you log in as root? Have you checked your system.log (/var/log/messages) for any resmgr errors? Carl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
why u don't use KDE instead... :D i think kde is as light as gnome AFAIK... CMIMW no offense btw login as root # su # alsaconf if u can hear the sound thats work. br, tambun
On Saturday 24 November 2007 01:16, Gene A. Anderson wrote:
I'm a fairly new Linux user who is completely new to Opensuse. I have recently installed the Gnome desktop version of Opensuse 10.3 to an old Compaq Presario desktop computer that also can boot up in Windows 2000.
When I login the desktop icon for the volume control has a red X. When I click on it I get the following error message: "This volume control did not find any elements and/or devices to control. This means either you don't have the right GStreamer plugins installed or that you don't have a sound card configured."
The YaST sound configuration window shows that the ESS1988 Allegro-1 was configured as sound card number 0. It also lists the driver as snd_maestro3. So that seems like the card is being found.
Most bizarre to me is that in the login window when my cursor is in the empty field in which to type my user name, I can hit the backspace key and get a healthy beep out of the speakers as if the sound card is correctly configured and ready to work and somehow the login process disrupts that, because after logging in I can get no sound whatsoever out of the speakers.
I'm looking for any suggestions and I'm willing to provide any information that would be helpful. Please remember that I am something of a beginner, so please try to keep that in mind when advising me. Thank you.
Gene Anderson in Taiwan Hi Gene,
I'm betting all works fine if you log in as root? Have you checked your system.log (/var/log/messages) for any resmgr errors?
Carl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 09:00 +0700, chika wrote:
why u don't use KDE instead... :D i think kde is as light as gnome AFAIK... CMIMW no offense
btw login as root # su # alsaconf
if u can hear the sound thats work.
br,
tambun
On Saturday 24 November 2007 01:16, Gene A. Anderson wrote:
I'm a fairly new Linux user who is completely new to Opensuse. I have recently installed the Gnome desktop version of Opensuse 10.3 to an old Compaq Presario desktop computer that also can boot up in Windows 2000.
When I login the desktop icon for the volume control has a red X. When I click on it I get the following error message: "This volume control did not find any elements and/or devices to control. This means either you don't have the right GStreamer plugins installed or that you don't have a sound card configured."
The YaST sound configuration window shows that the ESS1988 Allegro-1 was configured as sound card number 0. It also lists the driver as snd_maestro3. So that seems like the card is being found.
Most bizarre to me is that in the login window when my cursor is in the empty field in which to type my user name, I can hit the backspace key and get a healthy beep out of the speakers as if the sound card is correctly configured and ready to work and somehow the login process disrupts that, because after logging in I can get no sound whatsoever out of the speakers.
I'm looking for any suggestions and I'm willing to provide any information that would be helpful. Please remember that I am something of a beginner, so please try to keep that in mind when advising me. Thank you.
Gene Anderson in Taiwan Hi Gene,
I'm betting all works fine if you log in as root? Have you checked your system.log (/var/log/messages) for any resmgr errors?
Carl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Dear Tambun: I appreciate your response. I installed the Gnome desktop because the download of 10.3 had me choose either that or KDE, and I'm more familiar with Gnome (I use it in Fedora). Using KDE instead might solve my problem, but I am trying to use this experience to learn more about Linux, so I'm going to try to go ahead with this Gnome desktop unless I can't get the problem solved. I couldn't seem to get alsaconf to run, even when logged in as root. The command couldn't seem to be found. I'll look into that more tomorrow. By the way, what does CMIMW mean? Sincerely yours, Gene -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
u cant find alsaconf on the console eventhough login as root. sorry to hear that when my sound dont work i always use console then login as root then type "alsaconf" sorry that was a typos IT should be CMIIW HOPE U'LL FIND A SOlution soon br, tambun
On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 09:00 +0700, chika wrote:
why u don't use KDE instead... :D i think kde is as light as gnome AFAIK... CMIMW no offense
btw login as root # su # alsaconf
if u can hear the sound thats work.
br,
tambun
I'm a fairly new Linux user who is completely new to Opensuse. I have recently installed the Gnome desktop version of Opensuse 10.3 to an
On Saturday 24 November 2007 01:16, Gene A. Anderson wrote: old
Compaq Presario desktop computer that also can boot up in Windows
When I login the desktop icon for the volume control has a red X.
I click on it I get the following error message: "This volume control did not find any elements and/or devices to control. This means either you don't have the right GStreamer plugins installed or that you don't have a sound card configured."
The YaST sound configuration window shows that the ESS1988 Allegro-1 was configured as sound card number 0. It also lists the driver as snd_maestro3. So that seems like the card is being found.
Most bizarre to me is that in the login window when my cursor is in
When the
empty field in which to type my user name, I can hit the backspace key and get a healthy beep out of the speakers as if the sound card is correctly configured and ready to work and somehow the login process disrupts that, because after logging in I can get no sound whatsoever out of the speakers.
I'm looking for any suggestions and I'm willing to provide any information that would be helpful. Please remember that I am something of a beginner, so please try to keep that in mind when advising me. Thank you.
Gene Anderson in Taiwan Hi Gene,
I'm betting all works fine if you log in as root? Have you checked your system.log (/var/log/messages) for any resmgr errors?
Carl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Dear Tambun:
I appreciate your response. I installed the Gnome desktop because the download of 10.3 had me choose either that or KDE, and I'm more familiar with Gnome (I use it in Fedora). Using KDE instead might solve my problem, but I am trying to use this experience to learn more about Linux, so I'm going to try to go ahead with this Gnome desktop unless I can't get the problem solved.
I couldn't seem to get alsaconf to run, even when logged in as root. The command couldn't seem to be found. I'll look into that more tomorrow.
By the way, what does CMIMW mean?
Sincerely yours,
Gene
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On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 15:00 +0700, chika wrote:
u cant find alsaconf on the console eventhough login as root. sorry to hear that when my sound dont work i always use console then login as root then type "alsaconf"
sorry that was a typos IT should be CMIIW
HOPE U'LL FIND A SOlution soon
br,
tambun
On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 09:00 +0700, chika wrote:
why u don't use KDE instead... :D i think kde is as light as gnome AFAIK... CMIMW no offense
btw login as root # su # alsaconf
if u can hear the sound thats work.
br,
tambun
I'm a fairly new Linux user who is completely new to Opensuse. I have recently installed the Gnome desktop version of Opensuse 10.3 to an
On Saturday 24 November 2007 01:16, Gene A. Anderson wrote: old
Compaq Presario desktop computer that also can boot up in Windows
When I login the desktop icon for the volume control has a red X.
I click on it I get the following error message: "This volume control did not find any elements and/or devices to control. This means either you don't have the right GStreamer plugins installed or that you don't have a sound card configured."
The YaST sound configuration window shows that the ESS1988 Allegro-1 was configured as sound card number 0. It also lists the driver as snd_maestro3. So that seems like the card is being found.
Most bizarre to me is that in the login window when my cursor is in
When the
empty field in which to type my user name, I can hit the backspace key and get a healthy beep out of the speakers as if the sound card is correctly configured and ready to work and somehow the login process disrupts that, because after logging in I can get no sound whatsoever out of the speakers.
I'm looking for any suggestions and I'm willing to provide any information that would be helpful. Please remember that I am something of a beginner, so please try to keep that in mind when advising me. Thank you.
Gene Anderson in Taiwan Hi Gene,
I'm betting all works fine if you log in as root? Have you checked your system.log (/var/log/messages) for any resmgr errors?
Carl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Dear Tambun:
I appreciate your response. I installed the Gnome desktop because the download of 10.3 had me choose either that or KDE, and I'm more familiar with Gnome (I use it in Fedora). Using KDE instead might solve my problem, but I am trying to use this experience to learn more about Linux, so I'm going to try to go ahead with this Gnome desktop unless I can't get the problem solved.
I couldn't seem to get alsaconf to run, even when logged in as root. The command couldn't seem to be found. I'll look into that more tomorrow.
By the way, what does CMIMW mean?
Sincerely yours,
Gene
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Dear tambun: I logged in as root and was able to execute alsaconf in the terminal window. When it searched for the correct audio card, it did find it. I proceeded to allow alsaconf to configure that soundcard. The program then told me that the sound driver was configured and would proceed to prepare the card for playing. The program then stated that the mixer was set up for playing and would play a sample sound when I clicked on "Yes". No sound played, however, and the program returned the following before returning me to the command prompt: Now ALSA is ready to use. For adjustment of volumes, use your favorite mixer. Have a lot of fun! But the text returned to the terminal window that I scrolled up to recover contained less happy news: Loading driver... Starting sound driver: maestro3 done Setting default volumes... amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such device and below that: ALSA lib confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card '0' ALSA lib conf.c:3510:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such device ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings ALSA lib conf.c:3510:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such device ALSA lib confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name ALSA lib conf.c:3510:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such device ALSA lib conf.c:3982:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such device ALSA lib pcm.c:2145:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default aplay: main:546: audio open error: No such device I wonder if you or anyone out there can help interpret these results and give me some additional guidance. Thanks for your efforts, Gene -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
When I login the desktop icon for the volume control has a red X. When I click on it I get the following error message: "This volume control did not find any elements and/or devices to control. This means either you don't have the right GStreamer plugins installed or that you don't have a sound card configured."
The YaST sound configuration window shows that the ESS1988 Allegro-1 was configured as sound card number 0. It also lists the driver as snd_maestro3. So that seems like the card is being found.
Most bizarre to me is that in the login window when my cursor is in the empty field in which to type my user name, I can hit the backspace key and get a healthy beep out of the speakers as if the sound card is correctly configured and ready to work and somehow the login process disrupts that, because after logging in I can get no sound whatsoever out of the speakers.
I'm looking for any suggestions and I'm willing to provide any information that would be helpful. Please remember that I am something of a beginner, so please try to keep that in mind when advising me. Thank you.
This all sounds VERY familiar... just as an experiment, log in as your regular user (the one with no sound). Start up YAST, and go to the User admin. Add your user to the Audio group and save the changes. Log out and log back in again. If you now have sound, then this is a resurfacing of a problem I and others had with 10.2. Adding your user to the Audio group is not the solution to the problem... it is only a workaround. If you don't have sound, go back into YAST and remove the audio group from your user (just so things are back to the way they were before you experimented) C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 14:45 +0100, Clayton wrote:
> When I login the desktop icon for the volume control has a red X. When > I click on it I get the following error message: "This volume control > did not find any elements and/or devices to control. This means either > you don't have the right GStreamer plugins installed or that you don't > have a sound card configured." > > The YaST sound configuration window shows that the ESS1988 Allegro-1 was > configured as sound card number 0. It also lists the driver as > snd_maestro3. So that seems like the card is being found. > > Most bizarre to me is that in the login window when my cursor is in the > empty field in which to type my user name, I can hit the backspace key > and get a healthy beep out of the speakers as if the sound card is > correctly configured and ready to work and somehow the login process > disrupts that, because after logging in I can get no sound whatsoever > out of the speakers. > > I'm looking for any suggestions and I'm willing to provide any > information that would be helpful. Please remember that I am something > of a beginner, so please try to keep that in mind when advising me. > Thank you.
This all sounds VERY familiar... just as an experiment, log in as your regular user (the one with no sound). Start up YAST, and go to the User admin. Add your user to the Audio group and save the changes. Log out and log back in again.
If you now have sound, then this is a resurfacing of a problem I and others had with 10.2. Adding your user to the Audio group is not the solution to the problem... it is only a workaround.
If you don't have sound, go back into YAST and remove the audio group from your user (just so things are back to the way they were before you experimented)
C. Dear Clayton:
You seem to assume that I can get sound as root, but I cannot. Nevertheless, I attempted what you suggested, and it did not solve the problem. I am also confused that running aplay seems to indicate that my sound card is a MPU 401 UART device, not the main sound card. I'm open to any other suggestions, but may try a re-install using the KDE version if nothing else works. Gene -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
You seem to assume that I can get sound as root, but I cannot. Nevertheless, I attempted what you suggested, and it did not solve the problem.
Not assuming.. just remembering the problem from almost a year ago.... thus the experiment. At least you ruled out another possible source of the problem. I don't have any new suggestions though :-( C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 09:00 +0700, chika wrote:
why u don't use KDE instead... :D i think kde is as light as gnome AFAIK... CMIMW no offense
btw login as root # su # alsaconf
if u can hear the sound thats work.
br,
tambun
On Saturday 24 November 2007 01:16, Gene A. Anderson wrote:
I'm a fairly new Linux user who is completely new to Opensuse. I have recently installed the Gnome desktop version of Opensuse 10.3 to an old Compaq Presario desktop computer that also can boot up in Windows 2000.
When I login the desktop icon for the volume control has a red X. When I click on it I get the following error message: "This volume control did not find any elements and/or devices to control. This means either you don't have the right GStreamer plugins installed or that you don't have a sound card configured."
The YaST sound configuration window shows that the ESS1988 Allegro-1 was configured as sound card number 0. It also lists the driver as snd_maestro3. So that seems like the card is being found.
Most bizarre to me is that in the login window when my cursor is in the empty field in which to type my user name, I can hit the backspace key and get a healthy beep out of the speakers as if the sound card is correctly configured and ready to work and somehow the login process disrupts that, because after logging in I can get no sound whatsoever out of the speakers.
I'm looking for any suggestions and I'm willing to provide any information that would be helpful. Please remember that I am something of a beginner, so please try to keep that in mind when advising me. Thank you.
Gene Anderson in Taiwan Hi Gene,
I'm betting all works fine if you log in as root? Have you checked your system.log (/var/log/messages) for any resmgr errors?
Carl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Dear Tambun and others: I finally took you advice and installed the KDE version of Opensuse 10.3, but I ended up with the same problems. I can't seem to get any further advice from the mail-list, so I have installed Ubuntu instead. It seems simpler to install, but it seems many details have to be worked out post-installation whereas Opensuse puts most of the configuration details out front for the installer to decide. I'll keep my Opensuse discs and try them later on another machine. Gene -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 09:00 +0700, chika wrote:
why u don't use KDE instead... :D i think kde is as light as gnome AFAIK... CMIMW no offense
When I login the desktop icon for the volume control has a red X. When I finally took you advice and installed the KDE version of Opensuse 10.3, but I ended up with the same problems. I can't seem to get any
Of course, such a problem has nothing to do with the desktop environment. In general switching desktops doesn't fix anything.
I click on it I get the following error message: "This volume control did not find any elements and/or devices to control. This means either you don't have the right GStreamer plugins installed or that you don't have a sound card configured."
Odd, I think it *always* means the later: "you don't have a sound card configured"
The YaST sound configuration window shows that the ESS1988 Allegro-1 was configured as sound card number 0. It also lists the driver as snd_maestro3. So that seems like the card is being found.
But did YaST play the test sound?
Most bizarre to me is that in the login window when my cursor is in the empty field in which to type my user name, I can hit the backspace key and get a healthy beep out of the speakers as if the sound card is
The system "beep" is entirely separate from sound card support (on most systems except some laptops).
I'm looking for any suggestions and I'm willing to provide any information that would be helpful. Please remember that I am something of a beginner, so please try to keep that in mind when advising me.
Did you see any ACPI warnings when you booted? (dmesg | grep -i acpi)
btw login as root # su # alsaconf
Good advice. -- Adam Tauno Williams, Network & Systems Administrator Consultant - http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com Developer - http://www.opengroupware.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 12/03/2007 Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 09:00 +0700, chika wrote:
> >> The YaST sound configuration window shows that the ESS1988 Allegro-1 was > >> configured as sound card number 0. It also lists the driver as > >> snd_maestro3. So that seems like the card is being found.
But did YaST play the test sound?
I've run across a couple instances where the install found the card and it showed just fine in YaST but I've had to "configure" them with YaST. When you highlight the card there should be "Edit" button just below the listing. Go through the configuration. That usually get a recalcitrant card working. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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