You're right, it was not installed. I will reboot in a while and see if it does the trick. In Leap 15.5 this was either unneeded or installed automagically. Sound worked, though I was unaware of this package. Leslie On 2025-03-05 12:44:42 Stephan Hemeier wrote:

Is sof-firmware installed?

Often it is not installed and that was the problem.

Stephan

Am Mittwoch, 5. März 2025, 19:31:46 CET schrieb J Leslie Turriff:

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On two machines, I am unable to get sound working. Strangely, the first is my normal working machine, where sound was working on 15.5; the other one is a Lenovo laptop that I'm setting up for my brother. (I'm getting some static from him about how long it's taking to fix this. :-) The problem does not seem to be openSUSE specific; I have tried installing other distros on the laptop, and the sound doesn't work for any of them.)

Here is a possible culprit that I found described online at https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1446773#p1446773 and some output that might explain my problem:

# ls -l /dev/snd total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 2024-11-18 17:36:20 by-path crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 6 2024-11-18 17:36:20 controlC0 crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 10 2024-11-18 17:36:20 controlC1 crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 5 2024-11-18 17:36:20 hwC0D0 crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 9 2024-11-18 17:36:20 hwC1D0 crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 2 2024-11-18 17:38:19 pcmC0D3p crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 3 2024-11-18 17:38:19 pcmC0D7p crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 4 2024-11-18 17:38:19 pcmC0D8p crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 8 2024-11-18 17:38:19 pcmC1D0c crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 7 2024-11-21 16:30:17 pcmC1D0p crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 1 2024-11-18 17:38:19 seq crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 33 2024-11-18 17:36:19 timer

The solution in the ArchLinux posting above didn't solve my problem, but maybe gets me closer to a fix; the output I get now is:

$ cat ~/.asoundrc defaults.pcm.device 3 rc=0 $ speaker-test -Dplug:front -c2 -l5 -twav -wtest.wav

speaker-test 1.2.10

Playback device is plug:front Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 2 channels WAV file(s) ALSA lib confmisc.c:1377:(snd_func_refer) Unable to find definition 'cards.0.pcm.front.3:CARD=0' ALSA lib conf.c:5207:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory ALSA lib conf.c:5730:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory ALSA lib pcm.c:2675:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM front Playback open error: -2,No such file or directory rc=1

Apparently, 'No such file or directory' is referring to the audio device, not a file?

Leslie

After installing sof-firmware and rebooting, I am able to get sound from Kaffeine and VLC, but strangely, not from Noatun or from YouTube via Firefox; so something still isn't right. I'm not sure what else to look at to get the rest working. Leslie On 2025-03-05 14:20:47 J Leslie Turriff wrote:

You're right, it was not installed. I will reboot in a while and see if it does the trick. In Leap 15.5 this was either unneeded or installed automagically. Sound worked, though I was unaware of this package.

Leslie

On 2025-03-05 12:44:42 Stephan Hemeier wrote:

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Is sof-firmware installed?

Often it is not installed and that was the problem.

Stephan

Am Mittwoch, 5. März 2025, 19:31:46 CET schrieb J Leslie Turriff:

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On two machines, I am unable to get sound working. Strangely, the first is my normal working machine, where sound was working on 15.5; the other one is a Lenovo laptop that I'm setting up for my brother. (I'm getting some static from him about how long it's taking to fix this. :-) The problem does not seem to be openSUSE specific; I have tried installing other distros on the laptop, and the sound doesn't work for any of them.)

Here is a possible culprit that I found described online at https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1446773#p1446773 and some output that might explain my problem:

# ls -l /dev/snd total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 2024-11-18 17:36:20 by-path crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 6 2024-11-18 17:36:20 controlC0 crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 10 2024-11-18 17:36:20 controlC1 crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 5 2024-11-18 17:36:20 hwC0D0 crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 9 2024-11-18 17:36:20 hwC1D0 crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 2 2024-11-18 17:38:19 pcmC0D3p crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 3 2024-11-18 17:38:19 pcmC0D7p crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 4 2024-11-18 17:38:19 pcmC0D8p crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 8 2024-11-18 17:38:19 pcmC1D0c crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 7 2024-11-21 16:30:17 pcmC1D0p crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 1 2024-11-18 17:38:19 seq crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 33 2024-11-18 17:36:19 timer

The solution in the ArchLinux posting above didn't solve my problem, but maybe gets me closer to a fix; the output I get now is:

$ cat ~/.asoundrc defaults.pcm.device 3 rc=0 $ speaker-test -Dplug:front -c2 -l5 -twav -wtest.wav

speaker-test 1.2.10

Playback device is plug:front Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 2 channels WAV file(s) ALSA lib confmisc.c:1377:(snd_func_refer) Unable to find definition 'cards.0.pcm.front.3:CARD=0' ALSA lib conf.c:5207:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory ALSA lib conf.c:5730:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory ALSA lib pcm.c:2675:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM front Playback open error: -2,No such file or directory rc=1

Apparently, 'No such file or directory' is referring to the audio device, not a file?

Leslie

-- Platform: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.6 - x86_64

They won't help because pulseaudio isn't installed. (Neither is pipewire.) I have gotten audio to work with some media players, but strangely, Firefox, which usually worked when other things wouldn't, still doesn't produce sound. Leslie On 2025-03-07 01:04:44 Stephan Hemeier wrote:

Am Freitag, 7. März 2025, 04:19:16 CET schrieb J Leslie Turriff:

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After installing sof-firmware and rebooting, I am able to get sound from Kaffeine and VLC, but strangely, not from Noatun or from YouTube via Firefox; so something still isn't right. I'm not sure what else to look at to get the rest working.

Leslie

Install pavucontrol and pavucontrol-lang and use it instead of kmix.

Stephan

On 2025-03-08 03:03:25 Stephan Hemeier wrote:

Am Samstag, 8. März 2025, 00:29:49 CET schrieb J Leslie Turriff:

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They won't help because pulseaudio isn't installed. (Neither is pipewire.)

Why not using it?

1) I am trying to simplify the diagnostic process. ALSA has always been sufficient for my needs in the past. 2) I have always had trouble getting PulseAudio to work, and fell back on ALSA, which works out of the box. 3) I have never gotten pipewire to work at all. Can someone please help me figure out why I can get test sounds out of the YaST Sound module and from a few audio player apps, but not out of Firefox/YouTube? Leslie

Thank you. I will look at that first link. I have the tool from the second and have attached its output here. Leslie On 2025-03-11 02:44:23 -pj wrote:

On 3/11/25 1:22 AM, J Leslie Turriff wrote:

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On 2025-03-08 03:03:25 Stephan Hemeier wrote:

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Am Samstag, 8. März 2025, 00:29:49 CET schrieb J Leslie Turriff:

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They won't help because pulseaudio isn't installed. (Neither is pipewire.)

Why not using it?

1) I am trying to simplify the diagnostic process. ALSA has always been sufficient for my needs in the past.

2) I have always had trouble getting PulseAudio to work, and fell back on ALSA, which works out of the box.

3) I have never gotten pipewire to work at all.

Can someone please help me figure out why I can get test sounds out of the YaST Sound module and from a few audio player apps, but not out of Firefox/YouTube?

Leslie

Hi, some notes for you on Audio, there is an alsa info diagnostic script available, third weblink.

For audio info pass > inxi -Aa

Alsa troubleshooting: https://forums.opensuse.org/t/no-sound-in-onboard-speakers-in-leap-15-6/180 923/4 - alsa-info.sh diagnostic script - https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Audio_troubleshooting#Script_to_run_to_obtain_d etailed_information - -Greatest Hopes

I guess you have already checked that sound for Firefox is enabled both in Firefox itself and in the System Settings under "Sound"? On 23/03/2025 03:45, J Leslie Turriff wrote:

So, I have reinstalled pulseaudio and pipewire, and now I'm getting sound in VLC and Kaffeine, but not in Firefox. I suspect that merely using Kmix to control my sound levels is insufficient, and I need to use something else?

Attached is a list of what I currently have installed for ALSA, pulseaudio and pipewire. What more do I need to install?

Leslie