HI all: I have done a install of openSUSE 11.4 on a new machine. I have noticed to problems. One sound does not seem to work and amarok dose not seem to be playing tracks. Can someone help me trouble shoot and correct the problem.
Le 11/03/2011 20:15, Ralph DeWitt a écrit :
HI all: I have done a install of openSUSE 11.4 on a new machine. I have noticed to problems. One sound does not seem to work and amarok dose not seem to be playing tracks. Can someone help me trouble shoot and correct the problem.
hello, this list is for members creating multimedia content, not for general help. see opensuse list or any forum.
That said, usually such problem come from some mixer entry muted
jdd
On Friday 11 March 2011, jdd wrote:
this list is for members creating multimedia content, not for general help. see opensuse list or any forum.
http://lists.opensuse.org says: opensuse-multimedia English "Discussion about multimedia in the openSUSE distribution"
Your comment is the first notice I have about the new restriction about topics of this mailing list.
Regards, Pedro
On Friday, March 11, 2011 02:36:54 PM jdd wrote:
Le 11/03/2011 20:15, Ralph DeWitt a écrit :
HI all: I have done a install of openSUSE 11.4 on a new machine. I have noticed to problems. One sound does not seem to work and amarok dose not seem to be playing tracks. Can someone help me trouble shoot and correct the problem.
hello, this list is for members creating multimedia content, not for general help. see opensuse list or any forum.
That said, usually such problem come from some mixer entry muted
jdd
jdd: Thanks for your help. But the mixer is not muted. Now I suggest that you change the list topic to limit the discussion to multimedia creation only in http://lists.opensuse.org as it currently says:opensuse-multimedia English "Discussion about multimedia in the openSUSE distribution" I feel my asking for help with a broken Amarok (multimedia application) and a broken sound system sub component is with in the current guide lines of this list. But in order to avoide conflict I will take this problem to another list. And I wiil remember the unfrendlyness of this distributions mailing lists when I begin the process of looking for another distribution.
Le 11/03/2011 22:03, Ralph DeWitt a écrit :
order to avoide conflict I will take this problem to another list. And I wiil remember the unfrendlyness of this distributions mailing lists when I begin the process of looking for another distribution.
it's fair use to read the archives before asking, and I don't see what is unfriendly in my answer, as I tried to answer you question in the same time as I explained the list goal as I see it.
jdd
Am Fr, 11 Mär 2011 16:03:14 CET schrieb Ralph DeWitt:
hello, this list is for members creating multimedia content, not for general help. see opensuse list or any forum.
I don't agree.
That said, usually such problem come from some mixer entry muted
You can try pavumixer, when amarok is _running_. Play with alsa, pulseaudio-settings in Amarok. Did you try the Packman-version? the default-version doesn't support mp3 since years, because of worldwide legal issues.
Thanks for your help. But the mixer is not muted.
I think you cannot be sure, if you have more than 1 soundcard! I was fooled a while ago with an usb-headset, which uses a wrong route by default (probably).
Now I suggest that you change the list topic to limit the discussion to multimedia creation only in http://lists.opensuse.org as it currently says:opensuse-multimedia English "Discussion about multimedia in the openSUSE distribution" I feel my asking for help with a broken Amarok (multimedia application) and a broken sound system sub component is with in the current guide lines of this list. But in order to avoide conflict I will take this problem to another list.
This is a good idea, not because I think it is OT here, this list has very low traffic, normally I read this list only and post to the German multimedia-list, which has very low traffic too. BTW I was pointed to the German multimedia-list from the general list with similar questions. So don't care.
Did you try similar apps?
Have a look at Clementine, which is an Amarok 1 clone and gmpc with mpd, which is my fave. Deadbeef seems not be available till now for 11.4.
And I wiil remember the unfrendlyness of this distributions mailing lists when I begin the process of looking for another distribution.
Such things can happen in any list. Especially because this list has so low traffic, I don't understand this meaning. Choose your distro depending on your needs and which things work, there is no perfect distro. At least Opensuse belongs to the fastest. If I compare Opensuse with Ubuntu, Opensuse gets 51% and Ubuntu 49% when I have to choose, both have problems, which must be solved. I recommend to reserve 4 partitions (15GB) for different distros (+4 for /boot with 200MB each), so you can test 2 distros and keep the old one, if a new one doesn't work. Especially for multimedia this is very recommended and hard drives are very big nowadays.
Al
On 03/11/2011 03:03 PM, Ralph DeWitt wrote:
On Friday, March 11, 2011 02:36:54 PM jdd wrote:
Le 11/03/2011 20:15, Ralph DeWitt a écrit :
HI all: I have done a install of openSUSE 11.4 on a new machine. I have noticed to problems. One sound does not seem to work and amarok dose not seem to be playing tracks. Can someone help me trouble shoot and correct the problem.
hello, this list is for members creating multimedia content, not for general help. see opensuse list or any forum.
That said, usually such problem come from some mixer entry muted
jdd
jdd: Thanks for your help. But the mixer is not muted. Now I suggest that you change the list topic to limit the discussion to multimedia creation only in http://lists.opensuse.org as it currently says:opensuse-multimedia English "Discussion about multimedia in the openSUSE distribution" I feel my asking for help with a broken Amarok (multimedia application) and a broken sound system sub component is with in the current guide lines of this list. But in order to avoide conflict I will take this problem to another list. And I wiil remember the unfrendlyness of this distributions mailing lists when I begin the process of looking for another distribution.
Check their permission on /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer. For some reason openSuSE sets them up as 660. Also the group user make sure you are listed . I have seen this and asked them to fix it. Also now after a zypper dup add something to KDE4. Lastly take a look a lsmod and see if the sound is loaded.
If not try yast2>hardware>sound
On 03/11/2011 09:36 PM, jdd wrote:
Le 11/03/2011 20:15, Ralph DeWitt a écrit :
HI all: I have done a install of openSUSE 11.4 on a new machine. I have noticed to problems. One sound does not seem to work and amarok dose not seem to be playing tracks. Can someone help me trouble shoot and correct the problem.
hello, this list is for members creating multimedia content, not for general help. see opensuse list or any forum.
That said, usually such problem come from some mixer entry muted
jdd
That's like saying that the kde list is for the kde members only.
Dave P Maintainer Multimedia.
On 03/11/2011 09:15 PM, Ralph DeWitt wrote:
HI all: I have done a install of openSUSE 11.4 on a new machine. I have noticed to problems. One sound does not seem to work and amarok dose not seem to be playing tracks. Can someone help me trouble shoot and correct the problem.
This may be a kde problem or it may be due to missing codecs. If you can post the output of "zypper se -sd codec" we can take it from there. Regards Dave P Maintainer Multimedia
Le 14/03/2011 00:58, Dave Plater a écrit :
That's like saying that the kde list is for the kde members only.
posting on the proper list is the way to have answers
jdd
On 03/14/2011 10:25 AM, jdd wrote:
Le 14/03/2011 00:58, Dave Plater a écrit :
That's like saying that the kde list is for the kde members only.
posting on the proper list is the way to have answers
jdd
It was the right list at the wrong time because unfortunately you saw the message first.
Thanks Dave P
At Fri, 11 Mar 2011 18:05:45 -0600, Donn Washburn wrote:
On 03/11/2011 03:03 PM, Ralph DeWitt wrote:
On Friday, March 11, 2011 02:36:54 PM jdd wrote:
Le 11/03/2011 20:15, Ralph DeWitt a écrit :
HI all: I have done a install of openSUSE 11.4 on a new machine. I have noticed to problems. One sound does not seem to work and amarok dose not seem to be playing tracks. Can someone help me trouble shoot and correct the problem.
hello, this list is for members creating multimedia content, not for general help. see opensuse list or any forum.
That said, usually such problem come from some mixer entry muted
jdd
jdd: Thanks for your help. But the mixer is not muted. Now I suggest that you change the list topic to limit the discussion to multimedia creation only in http://lists.opensuse.org as it currently says:opensuse-multimedia English "Discussion about multimedia in the openSUSE distribution" I feel my asking for help with a broken Amarok (multimedia application) and a broken sound system sub component is with in the current guide lines of this list. But in order to avoide conflict I will take this problem to another list. And I wiil remember the unfrendlyness of this distributions mailing lists when I begin the process of looking for another distribution.
Check their permission on /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer. For some reason openSuSE sets them up as 660.
Well, first off, most apps shouldn't use /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer. These are OSS devices. So, if any, check /dev/snd/* files.
Secondly, the device permissions are controlled in two ways: normal Unix file permissions and ACL in addition. In recent distros, the permissions for desktop users are added/removed dynamically via ACL using ConsoleKit. Check the output of "getfacl /dev/snd/*"
As the last (but really unrecommended) resort, you can put your id into audio group to allow the access permanently. In this case, don't forget to re-login.
Takashi
On Fri, 2011-03-11 at 14:15 -0500, Ralph DeWitt wrote:
HI all: I have done a install of openSUSE 11.4 on a new machine. I have noticed to problems. One sound does not seem to work and amarok dose not seem to be playing tracks. Can someone help me trouble shoot and correct the problem. -- Ralph
Ralph,
Sometimes I have had to open the mixer controls and set the PCM volume settings, as they are minimized by default on some systems. It is easy to do. Right click the speaker, click show mixer window, click mixer, adjust PCM control to something more than 0.
Hope this helps.
Joe Cook
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