Bug 104664

Summary:	sound disabled after installation
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Frank Rennemann <frank>
Component:	Sound	Assignee:	E-mail List <kde-maintainers>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	nelsonbatista
Version:	Beta 1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i686
OS:	SUSE Other
Whiteboard:
Found By:	Beta-Customer	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	hwinfo --sound from Toshiba Satellite Notebook

Description Frank Rennemann 2005-08-15 12:02:20 UTC

durig installation there was no error-message configuring the sound, but after
the first start of the new installed system sound does not work in KDE and the
KMix icon was disabled (gray).
Trying to run the YaST sound module did not work the first time. I tried it
after a reboot and was then able to configure the sound via the YaST sound
module. All channels had zero values. Changing master and PCM to 100 % solved
part of the problem, the test worked, but kaffeine and amarok do not present any
sound!

Comment 1 Frank Rennemann 2005-08-15 12:03:49 UTC

Created attachment 46043 [details]
hwinfo --sound from Toshiba Satellite Notebook

Comment 2 Takashi Iwai 2005-08-15 17:07:40 UTC

The muted sound was already fixed for beta2.

Do you mean that kaffeine and amarok do not produce any tones?  Do they look as
if working or is blocked?  Which sound engine with amarok?

Comment 3 Frank Rennemann 2005-08-15 17:35:33 UTC

kaffeine plays mpeg movies without sound. amarok seems be blocked. I tried wav
and mp3. it seems to use KDEMM.

The system sounds (KDE start jingle etc.) work now

Comment 4 Wolfram Sobotta 2005-08-21 07:47:14 UTC

amarok and kaffeine doesn't play any sound - in any case (KDEMM or XINE) - I've
tried a different (xine) engine and it still doesn't work. Amarok steps through
the entries in the playlist, but doesn't play any.

ogg123 plays sounds fine - so I think this is a audio-engine problem...

This is beta 2.

Comment 5 Nelson Batista 2005-08-23 15:46:28 UTC

I had the same problem when installing Suse in VMWare Workstation 5 virtual machine.
I've solved the problem by:
 removing the sound card;
 restart de machine.

Comment 6 Takashi Iwai 2005-08-29 09:52:20 UTC

I guess the problem with kaffeine/amarok should be fixed on beta3.

Comment 7 Frank Rennemann 2005-08-29 10:19:51 UTC

unfortunately not completely. I tried a beta3 installation yesterday and the
following was the result:

Sound configuration in general OK
amarok does not play ogg, wav, mp3
kaffeine plays ogg and wav, but does not play mp3 and mgeg movies 

additional, the sound does not work in general after a suspend to disk

Comment 8 Takashi Iwai 2005-08-29 10:25:53 UTC

MPEG/MP3 support isn't included except for realplayer, so use only ogg files.
(We might ship mp3 support on DVD box, but not sure about OSS version.)

The first one looks rather a problem of amarok.  Do other players (e.g. xmms)
work properly with ogg?

The PM problem is in progress.  If you see this on beta4, please report it as
another bug.

Comment 9 Frank Rennemann 2005-08-29 11:19:57 UTC

ogg and wav are working with kaffeine, xmms and banshee

Comment 10 Takashi Iwai 2005-08-29 12:44:57 UTC

OK, then it looks like an amarok-specific problem.

Reassigned to kde maintainers, who may have more clue about amarok.

Comment 11 Takashi Iwai 2005-08-29 13:05:44 UTC

I found that KDEMM isn't listed up as an available engine in the amarok
configuration.  Only Helix Engine is listed there.
Since Helix engine uses OSS, its access to the sound device is exclusive and
blocked if other apps use the sound device.

Is it intentional?

Comment 12 Adrian Schröter 2005-08-29 14:25:55 UTC

we removed the amarok KDEMM engine again, because it was broken. 
either -helix or -xine engine will be used, which are almost full featured. 
 
we found out that it was a bug in the -helix engine. It should work with beta 
4.