Install alsa opensuse

To determine your openSUSE version and your system architecture version type in an xterm or konsole:. Enter the root password when prompted. Then send the 6 zypper commands in two groups of 3 given below that are specific to your openSUSE kernel version. The three commands given in each case will:. Its important to send the third zypper command to remove the repository, as the rpms in that repository are cutting edge essentially daily or momentary snapshot packages from the upstream GIT trees , and once one's sound functions, its best not to keep updating alsa, as one of the updates could inadvertently break one's audio.

In addition, to update ALSA driver modules, send the following 3 zypper commands applicable to your kernel version in the following section. DO NOT install the rpms for other kernels as it may break your sound. The wikis are now using the new authentication system. Jump to: navigation , search.

Therefore the following packages may need to be manually installed in order to control the pulseaudio daemon:. To make all applications that support alsa but not pulseaudio to play sound via pulseaudio you need to install alsa-plugins-pulse as well as the 32bit package if you are on 64bit and run the following command to make it default:. Certain applications using the OSS audio output, if not correctly configured, could interrupt pulseaudio, such that pulseaudio cannot connect to the output hardware device.

This can be disabled by running. Taken from ArchLinux wiki. Due to dependencies it is often not possible to uninstall pulseaudio completely. This will stop the relevant pulseaudio components including the 'pulseaudio' daemon, and inhibit autospawning as well.

There have been cases where the volume is muted by default, and this isn't exposed in the KDE mixer. To fix this, run padevchooser you may have to install it , click the tray icon, and choose "Volume Control". Check that everything is not muted, including after you start playing sound through an application the application should show up in the "Playback" tab.

You'll have to log off and back in for this to take effect. There were issues getting 5. Many people have a surround card, but have speakers for just two channels, so PulseAudio can't really default to a surround setup. Or even easier, you can run paprefs and set the speaker setup via the paprefs GUI. Please report back in bug if this works or not for you. Publisher: KDE Verified account. Publisher: Canonical Verified account.

Publisher: jetbrains Verified account. Browse and find snaps from the convenience of your desktop using the snap store snap. Interested to find out more about snaps? Want to publish your own application? Visit snapcraft. Install alsa-utils on openSUSE. Details for alsa-utils License GPL