On 13/02/12 03:52, C wrote:
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 04:40, Basil Chupin<blchupin@iinet.net.au> wrote:
On 10/02/12 23:59, C wrote:
I'm trying to help a friend get a computer set up on openSUSE 12.1 (migrating from Ubuntu 10.10), and everything is working on the openSUSE 12.1 KDE4 LiveCD except sound. [snip]
As I just suggested to Duaine, pulse works on top of alsa so you need to get the setup done correctly in alsa first before pulse will work correctly. Use alsamixer and select the audio device using (?)F6, then do the channels. Well, the install was attempted... basically, openSUSE 12.1 works fine with the exception of sound. Immediately post-install with all updates applied, the speakers have no sound at all, but the microphone worked. After much tinkering with Pulse (pavucontrol, changing model in the sound options, etc etc etc), we removed pulse completely and installed Alsa... and nothing changed. Speakers still had no sound at all, and now the microphone stopped working. We dug up some USB speakers and plugged them in.. worked right away (not using the built-in speakers/sound card though), but still no microphone.
In the end... things got so mixed up and messed up that we opted to do a complete re-install again... tomorrow sometime.
It's a shame that everything works so well except... sound... and I'm at the end of my skills here with setting up the sound.
C.
Perhaps I am misunderstanding or maybe I have been unclear. Pulse will not work on its own - it needs to have alsa installed, and alsa is installed when you install openSUSE. However, to get pulse to work properly you need to install pavucontrol which controls whatever audio devices you have: audio card or chip, microphone, whatever. But pavucontrol requires that you first set the audio device by installing alsamixer[#]. When you run alsamixer you need to begin by selecting the audio device with the F6 key (and then select/unmute/mute the appropriate channels). Once the correct audio device is selected pavucontrol will then be able to "see" it and configure it. Just out of interest, has the correct audio device been selected in the BIOS? [#] Unless things have drastically changed in recent days, alsamixergui, repeat alsamixergui, will NOT do what you want because pulse stops it from displaying all the channels etc - it will only display about 2 or three parameters to work with. You need to unistal pulse to get the same information to be displayed as in alsamixer; so the easiest thing to do is to install alsamixer and use it in a terminal/console. BC -- Aspire to inspire before you expire. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org