-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Yesterday, my sound output suddenly stopped. My system is openSUSE 13.2 with KDE 4.14.3. The kernel is 3.16.7-7-desktop. The hardware is a 6 year old tower with 8GB RAM. The soundcard is an ASUS Xonar D1. The sound architecture is pulseaudio running on top of ALSA, and the card sends its output to an external hifi amplifier. When thing went wrong yesterday, I think it followed a re-login or a reboot. When I play sound from gmpc (an mpd client) both gmpc and Pulseaudio volume control behave as if everything was working OK. In gmpc, the progress slider moves from left to right through each track, and the tracks "play" one after another. Similarly, PA volume control shows a moving output level for the MPD daemon. The most useful information comes from KDE System Settings > Multimedia > Audio and Video Settings, which now only shows PulseAudio Sound Server in the Device Preference list. Prior to the failure there was a list of about six devices, all variations on the Xonar D1, but most of which produced no output. However, Analog Stereo always worked. After the reboot/re-login which resulted in the loss of sound, there was a single hardware device shown with a different name (sorry, I didn't note it down). Yast Sound shows a single device (I disabled the onboard sound device in the BIOS a long time ago) as card 0, Virtuoso 100 (Xonar D1), using driver snd-virtuoso. If I remove and reinsert the output lead, the hifi system buzzes briefly as the mini-jack goes back in, which suggests there cable is OK and there is still life in the card. I have googled for an answer, and though there is lots about configuring sound from the alsa level upwards, there is nothing on a suddenly silent system. My own feeling is that something has changed at the sound driver or ALSA level. YaST has never offered any configuration options for this card. Any suggestions, please? Bob - -- Bob Williams System: Linux 3.16.7-7-desktop Distro: openSUSE 13.2 (x86_64) with KDE Development Platform: 4.14.3 Uptime: 06:00am up 12:11, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.05 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlSvlqgACgkQ0Sr7eZJrmU5udgCdFFnzmDyE/PmfPZay05neLGgX wwAAnR7GtlNp1cv2iGbcag0Baxmok+3u =3AvO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org