Suse 11 sound...no sound

[mashed potato]

Hello all!

I'm new to linux (love it) so bear with me please.

I recently installed SUSE 11 and had sound working just fine on my Audigy2 value sound card. I mounted my XP drives and wanted to get some mp3 support so I installed real player (suggested from a website), and a codec for amarok without success from either. After testing a little bit I found that my sound did not work at all.


Things I have tried:

I first uninstalled the installed software (mp3 codecs and realplayer)

Alsamixer - everything is at 100% and unmuted

speaker-test -Dplug:front -c2 -l5 -twav - no sound (in root either)

someone asked if i was in "audio" group, I wasn't but I added myself.

I tried deleting and reinstalling my audio card.

I updated alsa using zypper

Amarok was using xine engine



Please help as this is getting quite annoying. Someone recommended getting a version (forget which one) of ubuntu live cd and it would tell me whether my sound is improperly installed? Anyone heard of this?

If you need any outputs of specific commands, please let me know and I will happily oblige.

Thank you for any help.

[srinidhi.kv]

Even i am newbie, i had same issue with my ati xp sound card. But if i run the application sound in hardware in yast2 the prob got fixed. However problem persist if i reboot. So i run the sound application everytime after booting suse

[gogalthorp]

Did you run alsaconf (as root)??

[srinidhi.kv]

Did you run alsaconf (as root)??

No I didnt do that

[mashed potato]

Did you run alsaconf (as root)??

That did not work, any other suggestions?

[gogalthorp]

did you get an error message?

[mashed potato]

I did not get any error messages, but the sound did not play when it said it would. It said everything is setup and ready to go, but still no sound.

After running it, I went into yast to look at the hardware settings and I saw that both of the cards are "not configured" I configured the proper one and set to default, but still no sound. The few times I ran alsaconf, the cards were not configured when I looked in yast.

[gogalthorp]

You have two cards??

Can you disable one or remove it??

[mashed potato]

One on-board sound card which is already disabled in linux. I set the audigy2 to default also.

[tomslick]

have you looked at the analog/digital output setting

go to your mixer (kmix,gamix, ect)
select the switches tab
UNCHECK Audigy Analog/Digital Output jack

it's a comman problem with Audigy cards