Yet another Sound Trial (YaST) 2
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 -- David C. Johanson Linux Counter # 116410 Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 People who behold a phenomenon will often extend their thinking beyond it; people who merely hear about the phenomenon will not be moved to think at all. -- Goethe
David Johanson wrote:
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.
Do you have an audio cable connected to your CD drive? So far for me, kscd in 9.3 is broken in regards to digital extraction. My troubleshooting has not found the problem, though I do not believe the problem is in kscd code, since the exact same code on my machine worked in 9.2. It must be something else I have not found interacting with either kscd or digital extraction. Kaffeine works OK though.
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.
Have you tried to rebuild the arts package locally? That has worked for several. This would only be an option if other sound apps work, but not kde sounds.
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.
Perhaps they are conflicting. Try alsaconf and see what it does?
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?
Since Linux can bypass the BIOS in some things, I suppose it could.
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.
I seriously doubt that as a problem.
At this point any suggestion greatly appreciated. I would give alsaconf a try. -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Registered Linux user 231871
On Monday 30 May 2005 15:06, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
David Johanson wrote:
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.
Do you have an audio cable connected to your CD drive? So far for me, kscd in 9.3 is broken in regards to digital extraction.
Same here, see this thread: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2005-Apr/0876.html I am using xmms to play CDs. -- ====================================================== Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) ====================================================== "Greater coherence cannot be achieved. Not even the Netherlanders have managed this." -Anton Webern ======================================================
Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
David Johanson wrote:
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.
Do you have an audio cable connected to your CD drive? Yes, audio cable is connected from two different players, one plextor CD and one Sony DVD. Both play under W2K just fine. So far for me, kscd in 9.3 is broken in regards to digital extraction. My troubleshooting has not found the problem, though I do not believe the problem is in kscd code, since the exact same code on my machine worked in 9.2. It must be something else I have not found interacting with either kscd or digital extraction. Kaffeine works OK though. Haven't tried Kaffeine yet.
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.
Have you tried to rebuild the arts package locally? That has worked for several. This would only be an option if other sound apps work, but not kde sounds. No, and I must admit I don't know how to do that.
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.
Perhaps they are conflicting. Try alsaconf and see what it does? Turned off the CMI card; no difference unfortunately. Ran alsaconf from root; it ran to completion ending with "Have a fun day." No change, still no sound.
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?
Since Linux can bypass the BIOS in some things, I suppose it could. Turns out there was a 3rd place I had to turn it off; did that also. No change.
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.
I seriously doubt that as a problem.
At this point any suggestion greatly appreciated.
I would give alsaconf a try.
I did, as mentioned above; still no sound. ;-( Thanks for the suggestions. dave -- David C. Johanson Linux Counter # 116410 Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 People who behold a phenomenon will often extend their thinking beyond it; people who merely hear about the phenomenon will not be moved to think at all. -- Goethe
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
J. Scott Thayer, M.D. wrote:
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
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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
Thanks Scott - I've tried both options, determine automatically on and off. I've even switched between /dev/cdrom (my Plextor CD SCSI drive) and /dev/dvdrecorder (my EIDE Sony DVD drive) both of which are connected to the SBLive! card with both on/off options. Still no luck. ;-( dave -- David C. Johanson Linux Counter # 116410 Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 People who behold a phenomenon will often extend their thinking beyond it; people who merely hear about the phenomenon will not be moved to think at all. -- Goethe
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