Rodney Baker wrote:

On Tuesday 23 December 2008 11:31:11 Marc Chamberlin wrote:

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I can not say a whole lot about the sound system that is on the motherboard itself, other than to say that drivers which are installed for it have a name prefix of CX88. I never use (or want to) this sound chip and in fact have disabled it in the BIOS. But despite that, SuSE and ALSA seem to be finding it. And if that is the chip that is in fact being activated for my sound, then it is no wonder I cannot hear any sound. (since nothing is hooked up to it)

The sound setup tool in YaST only reports the Audigy Sound card BUT when I run Alsaconf to set it up I am getting the following error messages -

Loading driver... Shutting down sound driver ERROR: Module snd_pcm is in use by cx88_alsa ERROR: Module snd_timer is in use by snd_pcm ERROR: Module snd_page_alloc is in use by snd_pcm ERROR: Module snd is in use by cx88_alsa, snd_pmc, snd_timer

Try running rmmod cx88_alsa (or modprobe -r cx88_alsa), then re-run alsaconf. You may need to manually run modprobe -i <audigy driver module> but I'm not sure.

If that works, try blacklisting the cx88_alsa module by adding it to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist - this will tell the system not to load that module automatically, despite apparently finding the hardware. You can still explicitly load it via modprobe.

It may also be worth checking to see that the module for the audigy card is not actually blacklisted too. If it is, even though you can load it as described above it will not be loaded automatically.

Hope this helps. Rodney.

Thanks Rodney for your suggestions, I really thought you had the answer but still no joy with my sound! So another look at the log files has revealed what to me appears to be a new angle on this problem, and again I am not sure how to fix. So do you and anyone else got an idea on this? - Dec 23 09:38:19 nova pulseaudio[4237]: pid.c: Stale PID file, overwriting. Dec 23 09:38:20 nova pulseaudio[4237]: alsa-util.c: Error opening PCM device hw:0: Device or resource busy Dec 23 09:38:20 nova pulseaudio[4237]: module.c: Failed to load module "module-alsa-sink" (argument: "device_id=0 sink_name=alsa_out put.usb_device_8bb_2900_noserial_if0_sound_card_0_alsa_playback_0 tsched=1"): initialization failed. Dec 23 09:38:20 nova pulseaudio[4237]: alsa-util.c: Cannot find fallback mixer control "Mic". BTW running alsaconf now seems to work in that no errors are reported.. just no sound yet... Marc... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 9:48 AM, Marc Chamberlin wrote:

As a follow up, I have dropped back to SuSE11.0 and tried to bring up the sound system. Still no joy! So apparently this sound system failure has occurred for my sound card since 11.0??? I am rather stuck now, I tried to drop back to 10.3, which was working, but my installation CD failed. I would really like to get SuSE11.1 working, but I will start downloading 10.3 just in case I must go back to it...

Can you give the result of "cat /proc/asound/card0/codec# | grep Codec" also "cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound" Please also inform rpm -qa | grep alsa rpm -qa | grep pulse rpm -q libasound2 regards, medwinz -- P. J. O'Rourke - "Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Hello List Members,

I'm finding that my sound using the Intel ICH9 is working less a couple of items....

1. No speaker audio output on the built-in laptop speakers. When I hook up a headset, then audio works fine. Under KMixer, there are not any options to turn on the laptop speakers as in SuSE 10.3, KDE 3.5. This may be part of the over all issue? 2. No internal or external microphone muting whether selected or not. 3. Slider control for external microphone doesn't have any effect when adjusted. I get the same issues whether I have pulse audio installed or not.

I'm using SuSE 11.1 Released, KDE 4.1 on a Lenovo W500 laptop.

Open the mixer and enable all channels. Make sure that the analog loopbacks are checked (disabled). Clark -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 5:34 AM, Michael A. Sterba wrote:

I have enabled all channels... These are what's available.... Front, PCM, IEC958 (Only with mute function), IEC958 Default PCM (Only with mute function), Digital, External Mic (capture), Internal Mic and Internal Mic (capture).

The title of the window is HDA Intel

Could you post the result of "cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#* | grep Codec" How is /etc/modprobe.d/sound configured? using Yast or alsaconf? regards, medwinz -- Bill Cosby - "Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 8:00 PM, Michael A. Sterba wrote:

On Saturday 27 December 2008 19:02:14 medwinz wrote: cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#* | grep Codec Codec: Conexant CX20561 (Hermosa) Codec: Conexant ID 2c06

Please chek if CX20561 or 2c06 is in the list of your /usr/src/linux-2.6.27.7-9/Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt

less /etc/modprobe.d/sound options snd-hda-intel enable=1 index=0 # u1Nb.kXwNWe4doZB:82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel options snd slots=snd-hda-intel options snd-hda-intel model=thinkpad ##Added manually to engage speakers(no effect)

backup your /etc/modprobe.d/sound, and could you change it a bit become options snd slots=snd-hda-intel options snd-hda-intel model=thinkpad # u1Nb.kXwNWe4doZB:82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel alias sound-slot-0 snd-hda-intel and see what happen. regards, medwinz -- Fran Lebowitz - "My favorite animal is steak." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Hello Team I found when I remove esound from my system it allows for speaker audio now. But.... There is always a but...... It doesn't work unless I issue a rcalsasound restart command from root after I boot up. Pulse audio didn't seem to be the issue on this laptop. Thoughts?? -- ***************** Thank You, Michael A. Sterba ARS - KG7HQ Assistant Director/Technical Specialist Northwest Division - ARRL kg7hq@arrl.net http://www.kg7hq.wetnet.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

medwinz schreef:

On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 8:00 PM, Michael A. Sterba wrote:

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On Saturday 27 December 2008 19:02:14 medwinz wrote: cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#* | grep Codec Codec: Conexant CX20561 (Hermosa) Codec: Conexant ID 2c06

Please chek if CX20561 or 2c06 is in the list of your /usr/src/linux-2.6.27.7-9/Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt

...

less /etc/modprobe.d/sound options snd-hda-intel enable=1 index=0 # u1Nb.kXwNWe4doZB:82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel options snd slots=snd-hda-intel options snd-hda-intel model=thinkpad ##Added manually to engage speakers(no effect)

backup your /etc/modprobe.d/sound, and could you change it a bit become

options snd slots=snd-hda-intel options snd-hda-intel model=thinkpad # u1Nb.kXwNWe4doZB:82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel alias sound-slot-0 snd-hda-intel

and see what happen.

regards, medwinz

I have a Acer Laptop Aspire 5315 In Yast I find: 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller configured as sound card number 0 driverprogram snd-hda-intel In /modprobe.d/sound: options snd slots=snd-hda-intel #u1Nb.xqPQcijbrk4:82801H (Audio Controller alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel Should I add the lines: options snd-hda-intel model=thinkpad and alias sound-slot-0 snd-hda-intel But what instead of thinkpad? TIA André den Oudsten -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Michael A. Sterba schreef:

On Tuesday 30 December 2008 04:12:33 Andre den Oudsten wrote:

Hello Andre,

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Should I add the lines:

options snd-hda-intel model=thinkpad

and alias sound-slot-0 snd-hda-intel

But what instead of thinkpad?

I'm by far not the expert but instead of "thinkpad", I'd use "laptop". I hope that helps....

It did not. So I'm lost now. André den Oudsten -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 7:12 PM, Andre den Oudsten wrote:

I have a Acer Laptop Aspire 5315 In Yast I find: 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller configured as sound card number 0 driverprogram snd-hda-intel

In /modprobe.d/sound:

options snd slots=snd-hda-intel #u1Nb.xqPQcijbrk4:82801H (Audio Controller alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel

Should I add the lines:

options snd-hda-intel model=thinkpad

and alias sound-slot-0 snd-hda-intel

But what instead of thinkpad?

Andre, if you really have problem with the sound please invoke "cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#* | grep Codec" in terminal as root and compare the result with /usr/src/linux-2.6.27.7-9/Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt. You can see there are a lot of model for snd-hda-intel module in that file. Then you can modify the /etc/modprobe.d/sound. You can always refer to http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Intel-HDA_sound_problems, I also write my experience on http://medwinz.blogsome.com/2008/12/26/workaround-for-sound-problem-on-opens... regards, medwinz -- Samuel Goldwyn - "Include me out." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

medwinz wrote:

On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 9:48 AM, Marc Chamberlin wrote:

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As a follow up, I have dropped back to SuSE11.0 and tried to bring up the sound system. Still no joy! So apparently this sound system failure has occurred for my sound card since 11.0??? I am rather stuck now, I tried to drop back to 10.3, which was working, but my installation CD failed. I would really like to get SuSE11.1 working, but I will start downloading 10.3 just in case I must go back to it...

Can you give the result of "cat /proc/asound/card0/codec# | grep Codec" also "cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound"

Please also inform rpm -qa | grep alsa rpm -qa | grep pulse rpm -q libasound2

regards, medwinz

Hello again medwinz - I just found this reply from you also, (spam filter caught it for some darn reason..) looks like another person has joined this thread with sound issues also, so hope this is not confusing you.. And again thanks for replying... I will put all the answers together in this response so you have everything to work with... Here is my previous response - Thanks medwinz for replying... (I think you are replying to me, at least to the thread I started, but you cut and pasted something from a different thread...) Anywise this may be an interesting lead? The results of doing the cat and grep for Codec did not produce any result. However I investigated a bit and discovered the following - nova:/ # cd /proc/asound/card0 nova:/proc/asound/card0 # ls capture-rates fx8010_tram_addr midi2 pcm2c ptr_regs00b wavetableD1 codec97#0 fx8010_tram_data midi3 pcm2p ptr_regs20a emu10k1 id oss_mixer pcm3p ptr_regs20b fx8010_acode io_regs pcm0c pcm4c ptr_regs20c fx8010_code midi0 pcm0p pcm4p spdif-in fx8010_gpr midi1 pcm1c ptr_regs00a voices So taking a guess I did the grep on the one directory that seems to have anything to do with codecs - nova:/etc/modprobe.d # cd /proc/asound/card0/codec97#0/ nova:/proc/asound/card0/codec97#0 # ls ac97#0-0 ac97#0-0+regs nova:/proc/asound/card0 # cat /proc/asound/card0/codec97#0/ac97#0-0* | grep -i codec Extended ID : codec=0 rev=1 AMAP DSA=0 SPDIF VRA Does this mean I am missing a Codec and if so how do I acquire it? As for your question on how I am configuring the sound system, I have tried using both Yast and alsaconf. (initially Yast, then alsaconf) I do not see any errors detected when I use either tool now. (after having blacklisted the module for cx88_alsa and restoring from the default blacklisted set emu10k1) ----- And here is the rest of the info that you requested - nova:/proc/asound/card0/codec97#0 # cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1 alias sound-slot-0 snd-emu10k1 nova:/proc/asound/card0/codec97#0 # rpm -qa | grep alsa alsa-utils-1.0.18-6.4 alsa-firmware-1.0.17-1.42 alsa-1.0.18-8.7 alsa-plugins-1.0.18-6.12 alsa-plugins-pulse-1.0.18-6.12 alsa-oss-1.0.17-1.37 nova:/proc/asound/card0/codec97#0 # rpm -qa | grep pulse pulseaudio-module-zeroconf-0.9.12-9.6 libpulsecore4-0.9.12-9.6 libpulse-browse0-0.9.12-9.6 pulseaudio-utils-0.9.12-9.6 pulseaudio-module-x11-0.9.12-9.6 pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-0.9.12-9.6 pulseaudio-module-lirc-0.9.12-9.6 libpulse0-0.9.12-9.6 libxine1-pulse-1.1.15-20.8 pulseaudio-0.9.12-9.6 pulseaudio-esound-compat-0.9.12-9.6 libpulse-mainloop-glib0-0.9.12-9.6 alsa-plugins-pulse-1.0.18-6.12 pulseaudio-module-jack-0.9.12-9.6 nova:/proc/asound/card0/codec97#0 # rpm -q libasound2 libasound2-1.0.18-8.7 Marc... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Well I will top post and start a new thread, since I think this is a new topic, but leave my previous conversation with mdewinz attached below. I have made some progress getting my sound working but am not out of the woods yet. At this point I have sound but it is badly distorted so that still needs to be fixed... If anyone has gotten the Creative Labs Audigy Pro 4 sound card working under SuSE11.1 I would greatly appreciate knowing what you did. I have followed the openSuSE and ALSA documentation as best as I can figure and in the course of attempting different things, I discovered a few nasty side effects along the way. It appears that Yast and KDE are not really getting along well together. If I attempt to configure the sound system with Yast, it immediately kills the KMix sound controller and upon restarting it, I find that all my settings are reset to max volume levels and critical parts of the sound system are muted. KMix has also changed apparently in a significant manner, kinda for the better but also for the worse (IMHO) It allows me to decide what controls I want displayed in the mixer, which is a good idea because many are not used. But it also hides controls, and in particular those which have been muted somehow. Nor does it persist the selections properly and keeps forgetting which controls I have chosen to display and which ones I want hidden. Once I discovered all this, and track down which control was being muted, I was able to hear sound, though as I said it is badly distorted. I know that a right click on the KMix icon brings up a context sensitive menu which has a menu item for mute, but it is always checked and clicking on this item does not change the state of whether sound is muted or not. Nor does it change the state of the check mark... So I don't understand what that mute menu item is suppose to do, but would guess it is broken? If one is working on configuring the sound system, it sure seems like it would be a good idea to turn all mute controls off, automatically, for the duration of the time one is spending on configuring and setting up a sound system!!!! And since KMix or some other sound mixer is needed in order to hear sounds, why does YaST kill it? I don't understand how the sound tests in Yast will ever work, and so far I have been totally unsuccessful at getting any sound from the test buttons within the sound tool of YaST.... (I have mostly been using the KDE4 desktop configuration tool to experiment with instead.) Another oddity with YaST, why is it that every time I start up the sound configuration tool I find it telling me that my sound card is no longer configured? I keep going through the edit process to configure it, when I get done it seems to be OK, but when I come back later I find I have to configure it again!!?? Setting up this sound system has been a serious challenge, dunno why it had to be when it was working fine in SuSE10.3.... Anywise, enough throwing rocks ;-)... What I need most now is to figure out how to get the sound card working properly with undistorted sound.. So any and all help is much appreciated! Thanks in advance... Marc... Marc Chamberlin wrote:

medwinz wrote:

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On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 9:48 AM, Marc Chamberlin wrote:

...

As a follow up, I have dropped back to SuSE11.0 and tried to bring up the sound system. Still no joy! So apparently this sound system failure has occurred for my sound card since 11.0??? I am rather stuck now, I tried to drop back to 10.3, which was working, but my installation CD failed. I would really like to get SuSE11.1 working, but I will start downloading 10.3 just in case I must go back to it...

Can you give the result of "cat /proc/asound/card0/codec# | grep Codec" also "cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound"

Please also inform rpm -qa | grep alsa rpm -qa | grep pulse rpm -q libasound2

regards, medwinz

Hello again medwinz - I just found this reply from you also, (spam filter caught it for some darn reason..) looks like another person has joined this thread with sound issues also, so hope this is not confusing you.. And again thanks for replying... I will put all the answers together in this response so you have everything to work with...

Here is my previous response -

Thanks medwinz for replying... (I think you are replying to me, at least to the thread I started, but you cut and pasted something from a different thread...) Anywise this may be an interesting lead? The results of doing the cat and grep for Codec did not produce any result. However I investigated a bit and discovered the following -

nova:/ # cd /proc/asound/card0 nova:/proc/asound/card0 # ls capture-rates fx8010_tram_addr midi2 pcm2c ptr_regs00b wavetableD1 codec97#0 fx8010_tram_data midi3 pcm2p ptr_regs20a emu10k1 id oss_mixer pcm3p ptr_regs20b fx8010_acode io_regs pcm0c pcm4c ptr_regs20c fx8010_code midi0 pcm0p pcm4p spdif-in fx8010_gpr midi1 pcm1c ptr_regs00a voices

So taking a guess I did the grep on the one directory that seems to have anything to do with codecs -

nova:/etc/modprobe.d # cd /proc/asound/card0/codec97#0/ nova:/proc/asound/card0/codec97#0 # ls ac97#0-0 ac97#0-0+regs

nova:/proc/asound/card0 # cat /proc/asound/card0/codec97#0/ac97#0-0* | grep -i codec Extended ID : codec=0 rev=1 AMAP DSA=0 SPDIF VRA

Does this mean I am missing a Codec and if so how do I acquire it?

As for your question on how I am configuring the sound system, I have tried using both Yast and alsaconf. (initially Yast, then alsaconf) I do not see any errors detected when I use either tool now. (after having blacklisted the module for cx88_alsa and restoring from the default blacklisted set emu10k1)

----- And here is the rest of the info that you requested -

nova:/proc/asound/card0/codec97#0 # cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1 alias sound-slot-0 snd-emu10k1

nova:/proc/asound/card0/codec97#0 # rpm -qa | grep alsa alsa-utils-1.0.18-6.4 alsa-firmware-1.0.17-1.42 alsa-1.0.18-8.7 alsa-plugins-1.0.18-6.12 alsa-plugins-pulse-1.0.18-6.12 alsa-oss-1.0.17-1.37

nova:/proc/asound/card0/codec97#0 # rpm -qa | grep pulse pulseaudio-module-zeroconf-0.9.12-9.6 libpulsecore4-0.9.12-9.6 libpulse-browse0-0.9.12-9.6 pulseaudio-utils-0.9.12-9.6 pulseaudio-module-x11-0.9.12-9.6 pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-0.9.12-9.6 pulseaudio-module-lirc-0.9.12-9.6 libpulse0-0.9.12-9.6 libxine1-pulse-1.1.15-20.8 pulseaudio-0.9.12-9.6 pulseaudio-esound-compat-0.9.12-9.6 libpulse-mainloop-glib0-0.9.12-9.6 alsa-plugins-pulse-1.0.18-6.12 pulseaudio-module-jack-0.9.12-9.6

nova:/proc/asound/card0/codec97#0 # rpm -q libasound2 libasound2-1.0.18-8.7

Marc...

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