On 09/07/2012 08:57 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
On 07/09/12 16:26, Duaine Hechler wrote:
On 09/07/2012 01:18 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
On 07/09/12 06:54, Duaine Hechler wrote:
Unfortunately, same old story with on-board Intel sound card - snd.hda.intel - 82801G - ICH7
From 11.4 -> upgrade to 12.1 + all updates -> upgrade to 12.2 + all updates
Version 12.1 - completely unstable
Version 12.2 - (1) Yast sound works (100%, at least while I was testing (2) pavucontrol - "Output Devices" showed "Dummy Output" (3) Could not get sound to work at all in VLC.
And I really want to keep up to date !
TIA for any help !
What exactly is your request?
If you have sound with 12.2 then stay with 12.2 and, therefore, why mention 12.1?
If you are having trouble with sound in vlc I can tell you that I too had trouble with it - but it is 'fixable'. If you want to know about this for vlc and 12.2 then let me know.
BC
Yes, how is vlc in 12.2 fixable.
Thank you, Duaine
Sorry for not replying sooner.
The problem is not with vlc.
You would more than likely have 'heard' me 'say' this before time and time again: damn pulseaudio is a PITA!
Pulseaudio is automatically installed in oS 12.2 (and 12.1). Disable it.
To disable[***], go YaST>Hardware>Sound>Other>PulseAudio Configuration and untick it here. Save the configuration.
Go to vlc and start it - I watch TV so I start watching a TV channel which will have no sound - you will probably want to play an audio CD or something. Don't shutdown vlc for the next step.
Go to a terminal and type 'alsamixer', press F6 and select your sound device - in your case it will be the onboard chip. Then press F5 to display all the channels. Set the volume levels for the necessary channels by using the up/down keys. Look at the bottom of these columns representing the channels and you will see either 'mm' or 'oo'; the 'mm' indicates that the channel is not active while the 'oo' means active; move from channel to channel with the left/right keys. With the audio CD playing in vlc, play around with these channels (turn on/off) to see which one(s) will give you sound. Take a note for future use of which channels need to be 'on' to get sound. When finished press ESC - and you're done.
(I have a Creative X-Fi Titanium audio card and had to go thru this earlier this week to get all the channels working - I was only getting stereo sound instead of my normal 5-speaker output. Disabled pulseaudiio, did what I just described above and now have everything working.)
BTW, in another post you mention that you got sound when you tried Knoppix. I tried Knoppix earlier and found that it does not have pulseaudio installed.
[***] Or you could uninstall it in YaST's Software Manager but doing so may make openSUSE have a hernia and put out an error message stating that it cannot do without pulseaudio. It did this (having a hernia) in 12.1 I think and I couldn't uninstall it but went the disabling it in YaST way.
BC
Well, had to go back to 12.1 - my accounting software is not ready for 12.2. At least for me, as for as the Intel sound problem, I think I fixed it. First, uninstalled pavucontrol and pulseaudio ! Then, after digging and comparing forever, I found out that the driver (snd-hda-intel) was loading with "model=auto" even when the settings were not filled in. (BIOS not being checked ?) Once I found a webpage that listed some model settings, I tried a bunch and found that "model=3stack-6ch-dig" (3-jack 6-channel with SPDIF I/O) work consistently. So, if the old screen density problem does not come back, I am a happy camper (and finally off of 11.4). Just wanted to pass it on, Duaine -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding Reed Organ Society Member Florissant, MO 63034 (314) 838-5587 dahechler@att.net www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com -- Home & Business user of Linux - 11 years -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org