Re: [opensuse] Loss of sound output

On 10/01/15 19:20, Bob Williams wrote:

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On 10/01/15 02:19, Basil Chupin wrote:

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On 10/01/15 05:13, Bob Williams wrote:

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On 09/01/15 14:25, Yevgeny wrote:

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On 01/09/2015 04:23 PM, Bob Williams wrote:

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On 09/01/15 13:58, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* Bob Williams [01-09-15 04:07]: > On 09/01/15 08:51, Bob Williams wrote: >> 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. [...] Open a terminal and check volume levels with "alsamixer". Good morning, Patrick,

Alsamixer shows Master volume 100<>100, for Card: Pulseaudio Chip: PulseAudio

Bob Press F6, AlsaMixer always shows 100 on PulseAudio

Ah, yes. A few more options when I select Xonar D1, but none of them affects the output. :-( You probably have already done so but check the levels in the Mixer: left-click on Speaker icon on Taskbar (bottom right) and check the levels set there. I had similar experience with sound disappearing and found that the not only were the output channels muted but the main "channel" was set to level 0.

BC

Thanks Basil. Nothing muted, all levels reasonable (>50%)

50 % may not be enough. Set the level(s) to 100%. I think you said that you are using pulseaudio. Two things about pulseaudio I have found over the years (but have not checked if applies in 13.2) is that if you have pusleaudio installed then alsamixer does NOT show all the channels available for the audio card/chip you are using; unistall pulseaudio to see all channels in alsamixer when you use F6 to select your card/chip. (BTW, you DO know how to use alsamixer to activate channels/lower-raise levels ? Just asking........) The other thing is, do you have pavucontrol installed for pulseaudio? You need this to control the settings in pulseaudio. BC -- Using openSUSE 13.2, KDE 4.14.3 & kernel 3.18.1-4 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org