On Thursday 30 September 2010 09:15:50 arygroup@gmail.com wrote:
OpenSuse 11.3 KDE 4.5.1 HDA Intel VT1708S
After I switch to another user (also KDE) both doesn't have sound. My player still doesn't pay attention to it and plays music, but I hear nothing.
I have to restart alsasound to make it work again.
Any suggestions?
Over on the forums there is a fairly comprehensive sound troubleshooting guide; worth a look. You may be experiencing what is a long-time problem with linux, i.e., one program grabs the sound device blocking another from using it, even after the first program is closed. A sound server is supposed to rectify this problem. A few things to look at: Switch to the other user and go to Personal Settings/Multimedia/Phonon. Check that valid Audio Output devices are shown, and test them. There may be more than one; if one works and the other(s) do not, be sure that which works is the first in the list. Which backend are you using? Xine from Pacman seems to work best, but there is also the gstreamer and vlc backends that are worth trying. Use the gstreamer from Pacman. The vlc backend is in the 11.3-KDE-Factory-Unstable-Playground repo. If you have pulse audio enabled, disable it and try that. If pulse audio is not enabled, trying enabling it. There have been a lot of issues with pulse; it is not enabled by default in openSUSE. But sometimes it works. The pulse switch is under YaST/Sound. If your second user is hearing KDE notifications but not music, try a different player. And, some players can be configured to use pulse or alsa. So make sure that the player is configured to use pulse if you have that enabled, or vice versa. Again, that troubleshooting guide on the forums can be helpful. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org