Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3397 mails)

["Gil Weber" <gil@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Reply to message from Clayton <smaug42@xxxxxxxxx> on Sun, 24 Apr 2005
15:58:01 +0200


> This is NOT a volume setting problem that we are having.  This is some
> other wonky issue.  Maybe a bug in artsd or alsa?  I don't know.  What
> I do know is
>  - It's not a volume setting thing.
>  - It will mysteriously start working at some point (almost everyone
> who's reported this problem on the various SuSE groups has had it
> start working again, but without any indication why).
>  - Nothing you change in the settings seems to have any affect on the
> problem... including playing with the sound settings in YAST and in
> Kcontrol.
> 
> My system is once again without sound.  It was working.. then it
> stopped.  I tinkered for hours trying to find out what's wrong...
> nothing I did made any difference.  They after one of many many
> reboots it started working.  I worked on other things for a while and
> managed to screw up my kernel modules so much (tinkering and playing
> with recompiles just to see what 9.3 can do) that I decided that it
> was easier to reinstall than to try to back out my changes.  After the
> reinstall... no sound again.  Nothing I've done since will get it
> working again either.
> 
> Seriously annoying.


Well I finally got my sound working, albeit in a bit of a round-about manner.

I was trying to use the on-board sound chip on my pooter. Worked fine in 9.2
but no sound with 9.3. 

So I installed a spare sound card I had on the shelf (an old Aureal Vortex).

Configured the sound card and pressed the volume test button - voila! Sound.

However....

When I tried to play a CD there was no sound, and when I looked at the
configuration for the sound card all the levels were back to "0."  Very
mysterious.

I looked at the Yast configuration and it seemed to be trying to default back
to the on-board chip. So I deleted the driver for the on-board chip,
reconfigured the sound card making sure that the volume settings including the
one for CD were set to maxiumum, applied, saved, and tried the CD again.

This time I had sound!  ;o)

So I still don't know why the on-board chip was not putting out sound, but at
least with the spare sound card it's now working.

I'm wondering if somehow I had overlooked some setting for the on-board chip,
or had neglected to click "apply"?  I don't think I overlooked anything but
....??  ;o)

Anyway, all is well here now.
Thanks, everyone.
Gil