Sound stutters on SUSE 11 and ALSA drivers won't upgrade
 

Hello,

I'm running a fresh/clean install of SUSE 11 32 bit and I have a problem with the sound stuttering, especially on boot. At times when playing a video it will stutter an lock the whole pc up. I also had this same issue when I originally installed the 64 bit version.

I didn't have the problem with 10.3.

The hardware is fairly new maybe a year or so old dell laptop. In 10.3, I was able to update the ALSA drivers to the latest (1.0.17) successfully, so I figured why not give that a try on 11.

After runing
./configure
make
make install

It seems to be a success. But when I run
alsactl -v
The version still shows as 1.0.16

Anybody know a way to get the sound to stop stuttering? And/or upgrade the ALSA driver?

Thanks!

Try sofware.opensuse.org they have 1.0.17 as a one click install option so it is done by yast
Of course when I check it looks to my OS suse 11.0 64 bit version , but if they have it for 64 bit version why not fore
32 bit version.
Hope you,re problem is solved with the new driver

Thanks for the tip.

I tried the one-click option, it installed fine but it still shows up as the old version. Is the version info accurate? What does yours say?

If you installed alsa from source like you mentioned above, installing an rpm isn't going to delete the previous version. If you use the command rpm -qi alsa, it should show the rpm you installed with one click.

If you have locate installed it might show both alsa installations.

Thanks for the insight. I ran that command and it shows the right version. I still have these sound stuttering problems though.

Any ideas?

I'd start with deleting the older versions of alsa that are installed so when you run alsactl -v it shows you're running 1.0.17.

Then try running alsaconf from the terminal.

After running alsaconf, I found the configure utility to be still at the old version. I tried to update that but it wouldn't because of the library files were still the old version. I updated the library and the config utils and the version of the driver then showed as current...but the problem still happened.

I'm started from scratch...reinstalled the OS (no updates yet) and everything is ok playing videos but the sound stutters sometimes during boot. I can live with that.

First thing I went to do is get rid of the Firefox beta browser and update it to 3.0.1. Still works. Went to do the updates and I noticed in the updates a patch for Firefox 3 to bring it to the final release of 3 and out of beta. Since the videos that it would hang on were flash plug ins I think this might have something to do with it...but not sure. The last two OS installs I updated Firefox to 3.0.1 than ran all the updates including the patch for 3.

This time, I deselected the Firefox 3 patches when running the updates this time. Why there were two that say the same thing... I don't know. I only subscribed to the 3 main repositories. So far I haven't had any issues with videos hanging.

How do I remove these Firefox 3 patches from the Available Updates for good?

If they are like network drivers you will have to remove them then 'blacklist' them to keep them from being reinstalled on boot.

Thanks. Will give it a shot.