Bug 462667

I exactly have the same issue. Yast2 seems to have a problem with sound test functionality for already working soundcard.

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hwinfo

I have exactly the same problem on three different systems:

- 64-bit system with mainboard Gigabyte GA-MA770-DS3, 
  onboard sound device Realtec ALC888
  upgraded from openSUSE 11.0 to 11.1, KDE4
  (see hwinfo, yst-logs and dmesg)
- 32-bit systems with mainboard ASRock K7S41GX, onboard sound device AC'97
  upgraded from openSUSE 10.3

A few more observations:
When loging in as a user to KDE (KDE3 or KDE4 on all systems) directly after after boot, the startup sound is not played. When I log out and login again, start and logout sounds are played. 
On the KDE4 system I get a message at login: "HDA ATI SB (ALC888 analog) is not working, falling back to Esound (ESD)". On KDE4 I can get the KDE startup sound to work (and the message to disappear) by giving Esound (ESD) a higher priority than HDA ATI SB (ALC888 analog) in the KDE desktop configuration tool.
kmix controls are working on all three systems, sound works for all applications I tested. The test sound in the YaST configuration tool works nowhere.

Created attachment 262809 [details]
Yast logs

Created attachment 262810 [details]
dmesg

Created attachment 262811 [details]
/etc/modprobe.d/sound

I tried different configurations - no change of behaviour

Reassign to yast2-maintainers.

*** Bug 463419 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Reassigning to yast2-sound maintainer.

Have same issue here, from y2log debug mode:
2009-01-09 21:12:13 <0> linux-bcpx(5201) [agent-system] ../../libscr/src/include/scr/Y2AgentComponent.h(evaluate):99 Going toevaluate `Execute (.bash_background, "ALSA_CONFIG_PATH= /usr/bin/aplay -q -N -D default:0 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/test.wav > /dev/null 2>&1")

executing command from bash shows this error:

# /usr/bin/aplay -q -N -D default:0 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/test.wav
ALSA lib conf.c:3952:(snd_config_expand) Unknown parameters 0
ALSA lib pcm.c:2202:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default:0
aplay: main:590: audio open error: Invalid argument

# /usr/bin/aplay -q -N -D default /usr/share/sounds/alsa/test.wav

delete ":0" then sound test would work !

I tried on bash:

alexande@asterix:~> /usr/bin/aplay -q -N -D default /usr/share/sound/alsa/test.wav

alexande@asterix:~> /usr/bin/aplay -q -N -D default:0 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/tes
t.wav

Both versions of the command execute without error message and play the sound.

Sound test from within YaST still does NOT work.

Please see attached y2log.

Created attachment 264292 [details]
y2log

Perhaps it's because my config is not the same, my sound card module is snd_usb_audio and my /etc/modprobe.d/sound contains :

options snd slots=snd-usb-audio
# uniq.unknown_key:USB Audio   
alias snd-card-0 snd-usb-audio

Alexander, could you try this command line "ALSA_CONFIG_PATH= /usr/bin/aplay -q -N -D
default:0 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/test.wav"
to unset ALSA_CONFIG_PATH like yast does it

otherwise I'll have to open a new bug report

This is what I tried on a console:

asterix:~ # ALSA_CONFIG_PATH= /usr/bin/aplay -q -N -D default:0 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/test.wav
ALSA lib pcm.c:2202:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default:0
aplay: main:590: audio open error: No such file or directory
>>> no sound <<<
asterix:~ # ALSA_CONFIG_PATH= /usr/bin/aplay -q -N -D default /usr/share/sounds/alsa/test.wav
ALSA lib pcm.c:2202:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
aplay: main:590: audio open error: No such file or directory
>>> no sound <<<
asterix:~ # ALSA_CONFIG_PATH= ;/usr/bin/aplay -q -N -D default:0 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/test.wav
>>> sound <<<
asterix:~ # ALSA_CONFIG_PATH= ;/usr/bin/aplay -q -N -D default /usr/share/sounds/alsa/test.wav
>>> sound <<<

Is it a scripting problem in YAST?

I don't think so, it is there on purpose (no ";") :

/usr/share/YaST2/include/sound/volume_routines.ycp line 44:

            // unset ALSA_CONFIG_PATH (bnc#440981)
            : sformat(".bash_background, "ALSA_CONFIG_PATH= /usr/bin/aplay -v -N -D default:%1 %2", card_id, fname);

so we have basically the same problem, it's the developer's turn now

The problem is known and the fix was already on FACTORY (or the latest upstream).
Simply try the latest alsa.rpm and libasound2.rpm on FACTORY.

The fixed package was submitted to 11.1 but still pending.

Tested on the system described in duplicate bug 463419. Confirm that test sound in Yast2 is working correctly with the two updates from factory mentioned in the previous comment.

On my system, factory updates fix also the problem

On my system the rpm's from factory don't change the behaviour (as in comment #19). Test sound in YaST2 does NOT work.

Have I installed the correct rpm's?

asterix:~ # rpm -q alsa
alsa-1.0.18.git20090106-2.2
asterix:~ # rpm -q libasound2
libasound2-1.0.18.git20090106-2.2

Hello Alexander,

the version I have is 

mercator:~ # rpm -q alsa
alsa-1.0.18-10.3
mercator:~ # rpm -q libasound2
libasound2-1.0.18-10.3

and that works for me.

Greetings, Martin

It works now with the above packages (version 10.4) from
http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/oss/suse/x86_64/


I previously fetched from 
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/multimedia:/audio/openSUSE_Factory

Thanks for the help

*** Bug 444438 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Same problem - yast2 does no test sound. That's really gives a lot of fun if you're trusting yast2 till you try to play somthing outside yast. :) I've digged the net, found lots of possibilities to reconfigure sound.. I've tried all possible sound model options within yast (based on alsa configuration howto found on the net).. Well then I've found that is still doesn't work, set 'auto' (which is default if empty) and still 've no sound in yast.. And only after that I had a try outside w/ simple play [path]. %)))

Below is my system details:
acer15:~ # rpm -qa | grep yast | grep sound
yast2-sound-2.17.13-1.1
acer15:~ # rpm -qa | grep alsa
alsa-utils-1.0.18-6.4
alsa-tools-1.0.18-1.13
alsa-plugins-pulse-1.0.18-6.12
alsa-firmware-1.0.17-1.42
alsa-oss-1.0.17-1.37
alsa-plugins-1.0.18-6.12
alsa-1.0.18-8.7
alsa-devel-1.0.18-8.7
alsa-tools-gui-1.0.18-1.13
bluez-alsa-4.19-1.5
acer15:~ # lspci | grep -i Audio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
acer15:~ # cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound

options snd-hda-intel model=auto
options snd slots=snd-hda-intel
# u1Nb.FPeEl_lypDB:82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
acer15:~ #



And below is part of my yast2 logs:

2009-02-03 04:11:59 <1> acer15(10133) [YCP] Sound.ycp:669 Driver snd-hda-intel requires packages: []
2009-02-03 04:11:59 <1> acer15(10133) [YCP] Sound.ycp:679 Required packages to install for driver snd-hda-intel: []
2009-02-03 04:11:59 <1> acer15(10133) [qt-pkg] QY2ListView.cc(saveColumnWidths):171 Saving size 69 for section 0
2009-02-03 04:11:59 <1> acer15(10133) [qt-pkg] QY2ListView.cc(saveColumnWidths):171 Saving size 304 for section 1
2009-02-03 04:11:59 <1> acer15(10133) [qt-pkg] QY2ListView.cc(saveColumnWidths):171 Saving size 69 for section 0
2009-02-03 04:11:59 <1> acer15(10133) [qt-pkg] QY2ListView.cc(saveColumnWidths):171 Saving size 73 for section 1
2009-02-03 04:11:59 <1> acer15(10133) [qt-pkg] QY2ListView.cc(saveColumnWidths):171 Saving size 69 for section 0
2009-02-03 04:11:59 <1> acer15(10133) [qt-pkg] QY2ListView.cc(saveColumnWidths):171 Saving size 304 for section 1
2009-02-03 04:12:02 <1> acer15(10133) [YCP] sound/complex.ycp:506 WaitForEvent: $["event":$["EventSerialNo":2, "EventType":"MenuEvent", "ID":`mixer], "select
ed":"u1Nb.FPeEl_lypDB"]
2009-02-03 04:12:02 <1> acer15(10133) [ui-shortcuts] YShortcutManager.cc(checkShortcuts):127 No valid shortcut for YSlider "Master" at 0x86827f4
2009-02-03 04:12:02 <1> acer15(10133) [ui-shortcuts] YShortcutManager.cc(checkShortcuts):127 No valid shortcut for YSlider "PCM" at 0x87c924c
2009-02-03 04:12:02 <1> acer15(10133) [ui-shortcuts] YShortcutManager.cc(checkShortcuts):127 No valid shortcut for YSlider "Front" at 0x8658c44
2009-02-03 04:12:02 <1> acer15(10133) [ui-shortcuts] YShortcutManager.cc(checkShortcuts):127 No valid shortcut for YSlider "Line" at 0x8672ac4
2009-02-03 04:12:02 <1> acer15(10133) [ui-shortcuts] YShortcutManager.cc(checkShortcuts):127 No valid shortcut for YSlider "Mic" at 0x867b79c
2009-02-03 04:12:02 <1> acer15(10133) [ui-shortcuts] YShortcutManager.cc(checkShortcuts):127 No valid shortcut for YSlider "Mic Boost" at 0x836bc24
2009-02-03 04:12:05 <1> acer15(10133) [YCP] sound/volume_routines.ycp:147 Executing: ALSA_CONFIG_PATH= /usr/bin/aplay -q -N -D default:0 /usr/share/sounds/al
sa/test.wav > /dev/null 2>&1
2009-02-03 04:12:21 <1> acer15(10133) [qt-pkg] QY2ListView.cc(saveColumnWidths):171 Saving size 100 for section 0
2009-02-03 04:12:21 <1> acer15(10133) [qt-pkg] QY2ListView.cc(saveColumnWidths):171 Saving size 100 for section 1
2009-02-03 04:12:21 <1> acer15(10133) [qt-pkg] QY2ListView.cc(saveColumnWidths):171 Saving size 69 for section 0
2009-02-03 04:12:21 <1> acer15(10133) [qt-pkg] QY2ListView.cc(saveColumnWidths):171 Saving size 100 for section 1
2009-02-03 04:12:21 <1> acer15(10133) [qt-pkg] QY2ListView.cc(saveColumnWidths):171 Saving size 69 for section 0
2009-02-03 04:12:21 <1> acer15(10133) [qt-pkg] QY2ListView.cc(saveColumnWidths):171 Saving size 73 for section 1
2009-02-03 04:12:21 <1> acer15(10133) [ui-shortcuts] YShortcutManager.cc(checkShortcuts):113 Shortcut conflict: 'O' used for YMenuButton "Other" at 0xb458470
4
2009-02-03 04:12:21 <1> acer15(10133) [ui-shortcuts] YShortcutManager.cc(checkShortcuts):113 Shortcut conflict: 'O' used for YQWizardButton "OK" at 0x8536384
2009-02-03 04:12:21 <1> acer15(10133) [YCP] sound/complex.ycp:48 unconfigured_cards: []
2009-02-03 04:12:21 <1> acer15(10133) [YCP] sound/complex.ycp:49 modules_conf: [$["alias":"snd-card-0", "bus":"pci", "bus_id":"0000:00:1b.0", "device_id":757
36, "model":"82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller", "module":"snd-hda-intel", "options":$["index":"0", "model":"auto"], "sub_device_id":6568
0, "sub_vendor_id":69669, "unique_key":"u1Nb.FPeEl_lypDB", "vendor_id":98438]]
2009-02-03 04:12:21 <1> acer15(10133) [YCP] Sound.ycp:669 Driver snd-hda-intel requires packages: []
2009-02-03 04:12:21 <1> acer15(10133) [YCP] Sound.ycp:679 Required packages to install for driver snd-hda-intel: []
2009-02-03 04:12:21 <1> acer15(10133) [qt-pkg] QY2ListView.cc(saveColumnWidths):171 Saving size 69 for section 0
2009-02-03 04:12:21 <1> acer15(10133) [qt-pkg] QY2ListView.cc(saveColumnWidths):171 Saving size 73 for section 1

I usually trust yast2. Thus I'd like to set this as Major - I've lost about to 2 hours digging diffrent configurations within yast2 and only then found that all just works fine outside. %)

With the problem in yast the cmd from yast logs plays OK:

/usr/bin/aplay -q -N -D default:0 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/test.wav

The patch from comments #21 and #28 resolves the problem

*** Bug 480711 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Included in the package update.