No Sound on Suse 9.1
 

I have a Soundblaster Live 5.1 card and it worked fine with Suse 9.0, but since installing 9.1 I can't get any sound from my system. The sound card is recognized by Yast and is listed as running. I have checked all the sound levels in both Alsa and Kamix. Nothing is muted and all volume levels are up. I checked some of the other threads on this subject but the suggestions with altering the settings in Alsa have not resolved the problem.

Has anyone else found a solution with this issue?

try mpg123 in the shell, and if that yields sound, i'd guess you're using KDE, so disable arts (i say this alot but it has given me no end of troubles).

IF mpg123 does not yield sound, it will almost certainly tell you something about why not (ie permissions, which is a chmod away from resolution)
IF it fails to point anything out, do an lsmod and check if you have the Soundblaster Live module in there ... i think it's emu10k1 ?

If that;s not there, install it ... Yast should help you with that.

Thanks for your reply. A few things for follow-up:

I installed mpg123 but the executable does not respond.
I am unsure how to disable arts in KDE as the 3.2 sound menu has changed.
I ran an lsmod and the emu10k1 module is there.

Further advice?

ok

mpg123 not responding -> odd ...

chakkerz@rurouni:/cdrom/GateCrasher$ mpg123 05\ -\ gatecrasher\ -\ wet\ -\ sub.mp3
ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1055:(snd_pcm_hw_open) open /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p failed: Permission denied
High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layer 1, 2, and 3.
Version 0.59q (2002/03/23). Written and copyrights by Joe Drew.
Uses code from various people. See 'README' for more!
THIS SOFTWARE COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!
Title : Sub Artist: GateCrasher
Album : Wet Year :
Comment: Genre :

Playing MPEG stream from 05 - gatecrasher - wet - sub.mp3 ...
MPEG 1.0 layer III, 256 kbit/s, 44100 Hz stereo


Do you get anything like that? (as for why i don't have permission to my sound thingo, yet hear sound ... no idea)

>> Module there, excellent

disable arts - well this ONLY applies if you are running KDE, if so:

click K > Settings > Control Center

Sound & Multimedia > Sound System > untick "Enable Sound System"

incidentally, mpg123 should have been provided by the default install of SuSE (well it certainly used to be in there)

also check in /dev/ that you have read and write access to dsp and mixer (and subsequently what they point at):

root@rurouni:/# ls -op /dev/dsp* && ls -op /dev/mixer*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 4 Feb 6 09:58 /dev/dsp -> dsp0
crw-rw--w- 1 root 14, 3 Aug 29 2003 /dev/dsp0
crw-rw--w- 1 root 14, 19 Aug 29 2003 /dev/dsp1
crw-rw--w- 1 root 14, 35 Aug 29 2003 /dev/dsp2
crw-rw--w- 1 root 14, 51 Aug 29 2003 /dev/dsp3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 6 Feb 6 09:58 /dev/mixer -> mixer0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root 14, 0 Aug 29 2003 /dev/mixer0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root 14, 16 Aug 29 2003 /dev/mixer1
crw-rw-rw- 1 root 14, 32 Aug 29 2003 /dev/mixer2
crw-rw-rw- 1 root 14, 48 Aug 29 2003 /dev/mixer3

interesting subscript

I just fixed the whole pcmBLAH error by setting it so there are no errors, and sound quality goes to hell ... so i'll keep my error thank you very much :)