On Monday 30 May 2005 15:12, David Johanson wrote:
Like many on this list, I can't get sound properly configured with 9.3. Searching google has not provided anything helpful.
Hardware is as follows: Asus P4T533 with onboard AC97 Audio Controller (disabled in the BIOS) Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live Platinum 512 MB RAM SuSE 9.3 installed on IBM SCSI Drive LOTS of other hardware I believe irrelevant.
For the record, all this works as advertised under Win2K, so I'm assuming, for now, no hardware problems. It also worked on earlier releases of the 9.x series.
KsCD loads automatically and plays, even identifies the correct CD and track in the system tray, but gives no sound over the speakers or headphones.
Ctrl Cntr | Sounds & Multimedia | Sound System | has enable sound system checked and auto_suspend checked with a 5 second delay. Neither test sound nor test midi produces anything audible. | System Bell gives a tone set at 600Hz and 200 msec duration but I believe that is being output on the system speaker.
Ctrl Cntr | YaST2 Modules | Hardware | Sound | shows two different sound cards as being configured:
[0] CM18738-6ch-MX as running (this should be the P4T533 onboard AC97 audio controller which is disabled in the system BIOS.
This card has the master vol set at 70 and the PCM volume at 48. Test of these settings gives no audible output. All the other settings are at 48. Since I have it theoretically disabled in the BIOS, this is what I would expect. But since it is theoretically disabled, I'm a bit confused as to why it is even showing in the list and showing as running.
[1] CT4760 SBLive! as running and the card I want to use.
This card has the master and PCM vols both set to 48; the other 24 options are all set at 50 or higher. I believe this would allow the sound to be heard if it was being output at all. As in card [0], test of these settings gives no audible output.
This holds true for both user and root which I believe is not what others have reported.
Not sure at this point how to proceed. One thought was to delete the sound card [0] definition leaving only the current SBLive! option but I haven't tried that as yet as it seems like something disabled in the BIOS can't be running even if 9.3 says it is. Am I wrong in this assumption?
For what it's worth, I can't get sound in my Mepis 3.3 distro either. All 3 distros reside on their own SCSI drives and do not talk with one another. Is this possibly a KDE related problem? Since one (Mepis) is ver 3.3 and the other (SuSE) 3.4, I was discounting this as a likely problem candidate.
At this point any suggestion greatly appreciated.
dave
-- Dave, This may be too simple minded but I had the same problem. In the Control Center --> Sound & Multimedia --> Audio CDs the first entry is CD device. Mine was defaulted to having the button selected for "determine device automatically" I unchecked it so it said the device was /dev/cdrom. That fixed to problem for me. YMMV.
Scott