opensuse 10.1, sound card is working but no sound with KsCD and other appl.
Hi, I am a linux newbee. Have just installed opensuse 10.1 on a Lattitude X1. Installation went fine. Almost all hardware components were recognised and drivers installed. However, I have problems playing mp3 or music CDs. I tested the sound card within yast (yast->hardware->sound->Other->volume->test) and there is a test sound. However if I want to play a music CD using KsCD or Kaffeine no sound is generated. I have thoroughly checked the KMix options and all settings seem to be appropriate. I do hope that this is only a question of a check box I have forgotten to tick. However, If more tech details are required to solve the problem, what I do not hope I of course can send them. Any suggestions please Eryk
On Tuesday 23 May 2006 02:30 am, Witold Wolski wrote:
Hi,
I am a linux newbee. Have just installed opensuse 10.1 on a Lattitude X1. Installation went fine. Almost all hardware components were recognised and drivers installed. However, I have problems playing mp3 or music CDs.
I tested the sound card within yast (yast->hardware->sound->Other->volume->test) and there is a test sound. However if I want to play a music CD using KsCD or Kaffeine no sound is generated. I have thoroughly checked the KMix options and all settings seem to be appropriate.
Common problem on laptops. I think I solved it using the sound option under multimedia. You can also try running alsamixer from the console. (I've included a screenshot. Hope it comes through.) I think KMix might work as well, if you select the input tab. I don't know if Gnome has a mixer tool or a CD player. In any case, for some reason SUSE comes configured not to play CDs on laptops. Never had an issue with the desktop. Google gives me tons of results for this search. -- kai - www.perfectreign.com www.livebeans.com - the new NetBeans community 43...for those who require slightly more than the answer to life, the universe and everything.
Hi,
Was trying Kmix as well as alsamixer. Alsamixer is running. Have checked if
user is in group audio and he is. The soundcard is definitely working
because I am hearing a sound when starting the session.
The KsCD player is playing. I even can move the volume control but no sound.
Any further hints, which would allow me to pin the problem down would be
highly appreciated. I really would like to use suse because many other
options seem to work fine.
cheers
Eryk
On 5/24/06, kai
On Tuesday 23 May 2006 02:30 am, Witold Wolski wrote:
Hi,
I am a linux newbee. Have just installed opensuse 10.1 on a Lattitude X1. Installation went fine. Almost all hardware components were recognised and drivers installed. However, I have problems playing mp3 or music CDs.
I tested the sound card within yast (yast->hardware->sound->Other->volume->test) and there is a test sound. However if I want to play a music CD using KsCD or Kaffeine no sound is generated. I have thoroughly checked the KMix options and all settings seem to be appropriate.
Common problem on laptops. I think I solved it using the sound option under multimedia. You can also try running alsamixer from the console. (I've included a screenshot. Hope it comes through.) I think KMix might work as well, if you select the input tab. I don't know if Gnome has a mixer tool or a CD player.
In any case, for some reason SUSE comes configured not to play CDs on laptops. Never had an issue with the desktop. Google gives me tons of results for this search.
-- kai - www.perfectreign.com www.livebeans.com - the new NetBeans community
43...for those who require slightly more than the answer to life, the universe and everything.
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On Wednesday 24 May 2006 14:42, Witold Wolski wrote:
Any further hints, which would allow me to pin the problem down would be highly appreciated. I really would like to use suse because many other options seem to work fine.
Hi Eryk, I know you're probably sick of reading all the threads on this topic in the SLE archives, but I'm sure if you continue to dig and test you'll eventually find a solution. It might help speed things up if you search for people who've posted questions and/or solutions discussing your specific brand of hardware. I know that helped me a lot. Unfortunately, there just isn't a single "magic bullet" solution since everybody's hardware is different. And also make sure you check the functionality of every mixer, including QAmix, while no other mixers are running, either in the foreground or in the background. (Try 'ps ax | grep mix' in a shell to see if any other mixers are running.) In my case, alsamixer did not work 100% although I could adjust some of the levels. It took quite a while to experiment and narrow it down, but I eventually discovered QAmix was correctly "hooked" into my sound chip, meaning it provides control over all the functions I need... mic level & mute, mixer out level & mute, master volume level & mute, line-in level & mute, and so on. None of the other mixers that I tried works the same way. So please search the web (Google for 'Linux sound' and your hardware) as well as the SLE archives for your motherboard/chipset/soundcard and see if a solution hasn't already been published. hth & regards, Carl
Hi,
Solved the problem, but I am not entirely happy in with the way I did it. I
have reinstalled the entire Suse distro but this time from a DVD. I can play
cds and mp3 and there is sound in the speakers.
When I was installing Suse 10.1 from CD's the sound did not worked.
I think that it is something what even the wisest person could not predict.
Thanks for all the hints.
Eryk
On 5/24/06, Carl Hartung
On Wednesday 24 May 2006 14:42, Witold Wolski wrote:
Any further hints, which would allow me to pin the problem down would be highly appreciated. I really would like to use suse because many other options seem to work fine.
Hi Eryk,
I know you're probably sick of reading all the threads on this topic in the SLE archives, but I'm sure if you continue to dig and test you'll eventually find a solution. It might help speed things up if you search for people who've posted questions and/or solutions discussing your specific brand of hardware. I know that helped me a lot.
Unfortunately, there just isn't a single "magic bullet" solution since everybody's hardware is different. And also make sure you check the functionality of every mixer, including QAmix, while no other mixers are running, either in the foreground or in the background. (Try 'ps ax | grep mix' in a shell to see if any other mixers are running.)
In my case, alsamixer did not work 100% although I could adjust some of the levels. It took quite a while to experiment and narrow it down, but I eventually discovered QAmix was correctly "hooked" into my sound chip, meaning it provides control over all the functions I need... mic level & mute, mixer out level & mute, master volume level & mute, line-in level & mute, and so on. None of the other mixers that I tried works the same way.
So please search the web (Google for 'Linux sound' and your hardware) as well as the SLE archives for your motherboard/chipset/soundcard and see if a solution hasn't already been published.
hth & regards,
Carl
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