Morning, I had (still have) the same issue when I upgraded from 10.3 to 11.1 on my Lenovo T60P...and at times even messing with the alsasound restart does not work... On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 22:15 +1100, mukul wrote:

Rajko M. wrote:

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On Monday 09 March 2009 05:41:46 pm Mukul Singh wrote:

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Hi,

Just thought I would let you know my experience of installing Opensuse on my new laptop...

Installed Opensuse 11.1 (x86 32 bit) with KDE 4.1 and then updated to KDE 4.2 Factory via one click install. The fact that KDE 4.1 is not usable is a separate issue in itself.

As my laptop has a NVIDIA 9200 M card, I thought that installing the NVIDIA drivers "easy way", as indicated on opensuse website should be enough. Did that, but no luck. Anyway, I managed to do it via the "hard way". The drivers were installed successfully and things were looking up.

The current problems on my system are :

1. Every time I boot my machine, the sound does not work unless I do alsasound restart.

Hi Mukul,

It might be PulseAudio.

zypper se pulse

Remove all you can see installed except libpulse0 . The kdebase4 depends on it, so simple 'zypper rm pulseaudio' can have unwanted consequence of deinstalling half of KDE.

Removing pulseaudio should be workaround until guys fix some problems between alsa and pulseaudio.

Hi Rajko,

Thanks for the suggestion. I did remove everything to do with pulseaudio except libpulse0. I am still getting the same error where mplayer is saying that the audio resource is busy...

------------------------------------------------------------------------- AVI file format detected.

[aviheader] Video stream found, -vid 0

[aviheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1

VIDEO: [DX50] 676x278 12bpp 25.000 fps 852.6 kbps (104.1 kbyte/s)

Clip info:

Software: VirtualDubMod 1.5.10.1 (build 2366/release)

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Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family

Selected video codec: [ffodivx] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-4)

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Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3

AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/8.33% (ratio: 16000->192000)

Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)

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[AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy [AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: conf.c:3009:(snd_config_update_r) Cannot access file /etc/alsa-pulse.conf [AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: pcm.c:2205:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default [AO_ALSA] Playback open error: No such file or directory

[AO ESD] esd_open_sound failed: Connection timed out

AO: [pulse] Init failed: Connection refused

[JACK] cannot open server

[AO SDL] Samplerate: 48000Hz Channels: Stereo Format s16le

E: context.c: waitpid(): No child processes

[AO SDL] Unable to open audio: No available audio device

DVB card number must be between 1 and 4

AO: [null] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)

Starting playback...

VDec: vo config request - 676 x 278 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)

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2. Kpowersave does not display the battery status properly. -1% charged is what I get all the time. It also does not recognise whether the system is running on a battery or on mains.

Seems also known problem. I found one bug, but I've seen discussion on that topic somewhere. You can help if you add your experience, including laptop model: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=182389

I will add to it.

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3. The plasma widgets misbehave every now and then, but I can live with that.

A bit more details, please. Not all widgets are of the same quality ie. development status, so being particular in this case is important. Which widget and what it does that you don't expect, or want.

Will provide the details in a day or two.

Thanks once again for taking time to help.

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