[opensuse] sound .. stopped?
running SLED 10 10 SP1 with GNOME Sound has been fine (well, other than the built-in mic not working). Today, I turned my laptop on and ... nothing. The little volume thing in the task bar is not muted (in fact is turned way up) and I have tried toggling it. I went into preferences, and made sure that "PCM" and "Master" (whatever they are" were both turned up. I switched devices on the volume-thingy, from "HDA Intel Als Mixer" to "Analog Device AD1981 (OSS)" -- no change. huh? Any ideas what to do? P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 10/27/07, Peter Van Lone
running SLED 10 10 SP1 with GNOME
huh?
Any ideas what to do?
So, I dropped to term as root, did a find for alsa* and came across alsaconf in /usr/sbin. Figuring "what the heck" I ran it. First time, no change, except that the little volume thingy could not be unmuted and produced an error when I tried to open it (something about no gstreamer device ....) But, since I had answered "no" to a question about modifying modprobe sounds, or something, I figured I would run it again and say "yes". Now, sound appears to be working ... but the volume thingy is always marked with a red X and I can't use it to control volume. Luckily the laptop sound buttons DO work. Gees ... -------------------- "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities" -- Voltaire www.the-brights.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Try going into the gnome-control-panel. Look at the settings for gstreamer and sound there, put them to automatic or alsa. Does that make any change? Bjørn -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 10/28/07, Bjørn Lie
Try going into the gnome-control-panel. Look at the settings for gstreamer and sound there, put them to automatic or alsa. Does that make any change?
well I went into control center/gstreamer, and tested everything with the little test button. It worked. But, I did change from automatic to alsa (still tested fine). No change in the behavior of the task bar volume-thingy. Red x and does nothing. Nice try, thanks! P -- -------------------- "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities" -- Voltaire www.the-brights.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 15:55 -0500, Peter Van Lone wrote:
running SLED 10 10 SP1 with GNOME
Sound has been fine (well, other than the built-in mic not working). Today, I turned my laptop on and ... nothing. The little volume thing in the task bar is not muted (in fact is turned way up) and I have tried toggling it.
I went into preferences, and made sure that "PCM" and "Master" (whatever they are" were both turned up. I switched devices on the volume-thingy, from "HDA Intel Als Mixer" to "Analog Device AD1981 (OSS)" -- no change.
huh?
Any ideas what to do?
P
Go into YaST, then Sound. Choose Other, then Volume. Make sure the
sliders at the top are on and that you can hear the test sound.
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Kevin Dupuy
On 10/27/07, Kevin Dupuy
Go into YaST, then Sound. Choose Other, then Volume. Make sure the sliders at the top are on and that you can hear the test sound. --
Well I have sound working again, as I said in my second post ... probably alsaconf does something similar to what yast does, as it did a test sound for me, too. The problem now, is the volume thingy. Any idea what I can do to fix that? P -------------------- "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities" -- Voltaire www.the-brights.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Peter Van Lone wrote:
On 10/27/07, Kevin Dupuy
wrote: Go into YaST, then Sound. Choose Other, then Volume. Make sure the sliders at the top are on and that you can hear the test sound. --
Well I have sound working again, as I said in my second post ... probably alsaconf does something similar to what yast does, as it did a test sound for me, too.
The problem now, is the volume thingy. Any idea what I can do to fix that?
I didn't read too closely what was written earlier in this thread, but your mentioning alsaconf "grabbed" my attention :-) . Run alsaconf and then check to see that all the sliders for the relevant sources/outputs are at the correct (high) levels. Then, and only then, check that the volume levels in Yast and the Volume icon (in your Taskbar) are at the correct levels. (For some peculiar reason, known only to itself, sound in Suse behaves in the most weird way. A couple of days ago I was adjusting sound on my wife's system (10.2) and lowered the volume in Volume control (Taskbar) while I had Yast2>Sound open in another Desktop. After exiting and closing Yast2 I suddenly found that I had NO sound at all for her TV card and CD. When I went back to Yast2 I found that the Master sound level (or was it the PCM level?) was set to 0 (zero). Working with computers is always FUN :-) .) Cheers. -- Past experience, if not forgotten, is a guide for the future. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 10/28/07, Basil Chupin
Peter Van Lone wrote:
On 10/27/07, Kevin Dupuy
wrote: Go into YaST, then Sound. Choose Other, then Volume. Make sure the sliders at the top are on and that you can hear the test sound.
when I go into YAST / sound .... and try to choose Other/volume control ... nothing happens (also, the other Other choices do the same, which is to say the screen and menu options are not altered at all. Choosing any of them appears to have no effect at all). Also, when I click "edit" on the sound card, the button behave just as if I clicked "finish": the sound control applet closes.
Well I have sound working again, as I said in my second post ... probably alsaconf does something similar to what yast does, as it did a test sound for me, too.
The problem now, is the volume thingy. Any idea what I can do to fix that?
I didn't read too closely what was written earlier in this thread, but your mentioning alsaconf "grabbed" my attention :-) .
Run alsaconf and then check to see that all the sliders for the relevant sources/outputs are at the correct (high) levels. Then, and only then, check that the volume levels in Yast and the Volume icon (in your Taskbar) are at the correct levels.
Alsaconf offers me no sliders to change. It detects and shows me my sound card, then asks if it should modify conf files, and then tells me it is done, but that it will run a test sound. Thats it. I suppose I can just not worry about the volume thingy, since my hard buttons work (and they display a little icon showing a slider moving). But, sound (as many other things so far in linux) seems magical and uncertain and a little flakey, and I would like to learn better how everything connects. So it would be good to be able to hunt down what the deal is, with this little volume-thingy functionality, "just because". P -- -------------------- "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities" -- Voltaire www.the-brights.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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Basil Chupin
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Bjørn Lie
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Kevin Dupuy
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Peter Van Lone