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#1
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Registered: Aug 2009
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OpenSuse 11.2 upgrade - NO SOUND!
I have just upgraded to OpenSuse 11.2 and all went well except that I have no sound again! I had the same problem with 11.1 but solved it clicking the device selections in Control Panel/Sound. That option seems to have disappeared now - no mention of ALSA or OSS which was there with 11.1.. I get sound when I do speaker-test -Dplug:front -c2 -l5 -twav (with a good deal of clicking between the speech) but cannot find how to get the system sound working.
#2
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Location: Toronto, ON, Canada
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Hi,
#3
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Yes, I do.
#4
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Further to my last, it might help if I send Alsa info:
#5
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Apologies for the length of my previous post. I included it all in case the essential facts were omitted.
Last edited by JayBee21; 11-29-2009 at 05:33 AM .
#6
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Hi,
Have you tried playing different wav files?
What is your Desktop environment? There is a
bug with KDE4
#7
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I put in that command and got "*.wav no such file or directory."
#8
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just seen your second question - my desktop is Gnome
#9
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Hi,
When I said *.wav I ment any wav files.
Code:
aplay -vv <any_wav_file>.wav
For example you can find it in the /usr/share/sounds dierctory.
Do you have a pulseaudio-esound-compat package?
Did you check the Sound Preferences?
Click Computer > Control Center > System > Sound to open the Sound Preferences tool.
The Sound Preferences tool lets you control when the sound server starts. You can also specify which sounds to play when particular events occur.
#10
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I do have Pulse Audio but what is a pulseaudio-esound-compat package?
#11
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Quote:
Originally Posted by
JayBee21
...what is a pulseaudio-esound-compat package?
Hi,
This package provides the compatibility layer for drop-in replacement
of ESOUND.
Did you check Sound Theme?
#12
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Pulse Audio Devices
I'm now getting a message on startup which says something like "Avahi Zeroconf not running. PLease install and activate before opening Pulse Audio Devices"
#13
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Hi,
#14
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I have 2 Zeroconf 'daemons', which claim to be running at levels 0,3,5. They are avahi-daemon and avahi-dnsconfd. But I'm still getting 'Zeroconf not running' at startup. Should I try reinstalling these or somethinglike that? If I try to restart them I get an error message: /etc/init.d/avahi-daemon start returned 1 (unspecified error):
#15
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Hi,
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