Ben Rosenberg wrote:
My boss at work said he could never get sound to work on his laptop but *I* built his laptop so I knew the soundcard was seeing on install. What he failed to do was ask me what was up.. the issue is that it's muted most likely start up alsamixer or kmixer..whatever suites your fancy and unmute the channels. SuSE does this by default so that the first time you start KDE or whatever. You won't blow your speakers if you have the actual volume on your speakers turned up to high. This should be the issue. If it's not then post again. :)
Well, now that the basement flooding problem has been hopefully solved by the incorporation of a drain system, and the computer is once again on-line, I'm responding again. And my apology for the length. I still cannot get the sound to work under 8.2. As a last attempt I tried loading the oss drivers (worked well with 7.1 when sound wouldn't otherwise function), but they wouldn't install, YaST reporting the sound module was being loading at boot. YaST also suggested modifying /etc/modules.conf by adding the line "alias char-major-14". I'm not yet conversant enough with Linux to fully understand what I'm doing in a conf file, so I'm pasting it below. Not all of it, I've removed everything I'm positive isn't related to sound, but I've also probably left in far more than is needed. Would someone be so kind as to take a look to see if this file might explain why I'm getting no sound on the Linux side of this box. I also think that the final lines in this file may have been written by the failed oss install. On the hardware side this box is running an ASUS P4PE mobo with the Intel 82845PE MCH and 82801 ICH4 chipsets and the sound provided by the onboard ADI AD1980 6-channel audio CODEC. There are two audio connectors on the board - CD1 and AUX1 - with the CD connected to CD1 and the DVD connected to AUX1. I don't think any other hardware info is important but tell me if I'm wrong. ###################################################### alias char-major-14 off alias sound off alias midi off # Alsa sound support. # Warning: please don't modify comments over aliases 'snd-card-#' alias char-major-116 snd # # Configuration file for loadable modules; used by modprobe # # please add local modifications to modules.conf.local include /etc/modules.conf.local # ####################################################### # Aliases - specify your hardware ####################################################### alias eth0 bcm5700 alias eth1 off alias tr0 off alias scsi_hostadapter off alias fb0 off ####################################################### # For parallel port devices, uncomment the following two lines and # change "frpw" to the protocol type you use ####################################################### # post-install paride insmod frpw # pre-remove paride rmmod frpw ####################################################### # # Aliases for OSS # # These aliases will be changed by YaST2 sound configurator. # If you would like to configure OSS drivers by yourself, please # take a look at the files on /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound. ####################################################### # Options; these are examples; uncomment and modify the lines you need ####################################################### # options cdu31a cdu31a_port=0x340 cdu31a_irq=0 # options sbpcd sbpcd=0x230,1 # options aztcd aztcd=0x320 # options cm206 cm206=0x340,11 # options gscd gscd=0x340 # options mcd mcd=0x300,11 # options mcdx mcdx=0x300,11 # options optcd optcd=0x340 # options sjcd sjcd_base=0x340 # options sonycd535 sonycd535=0x340 # options isp16 isp16_cdrom_base=0x340 isp16_cdrom_irq=0 isp16_cdrom_dma=0 isp16_cdrom_type=Sanyo # options ne io=0x300 irq=5 # Use this if you have two cards: # options ne io=0x300,0x320 irq=5,7 # options tulip options=0 # options 3c59x options=0 # options 3c501 io=0x280 irq=5 # options 3c503 io=0x280 irq=5 xcvr=0 # options 3c505 io=0x300 irq=10 # options 3c507 io=0x300 irq=10 # options 3c509 irq=10 # options at1700 io=0x260 irq=10 # options smc-ultra io=0x200 irq=10 # options wd io=0x300 irq=10 # options smc9194 io=0x200 irq=10 ifport=0 # options e2100 io=0x300 irq=10 mem=0xd0000 xcvr=0 # options depca io=0x200 irq=7 # options ewrk3 io=0x300 irq=10 # options eexpress io=0x300 irq=10 # options hp-plus io=0x300 irq=10 # options hp io=0x300 irq=10 # options hp100 hp100_port=0x380 # options apricot io=0x300 irq=10 # options ac3200 io=0x300 irq=10 mem=0xd0000 # options de620 io=0x378 irq=7 bnc=1 # options ibmtr io=0xa20 # options arcnet io=0x300 irq=10 shmem=0xd0000 # options plip io=0x378 irq=7 # options eepro io=0x260 irq=10 mem=0x6000 # options eth16i io=0x2a0 irq=10 # options fmv18x io=0x220 irq=10 # options ni52 io=0x360 irq=9 memstart=0xd0000 memend=0xd4000 # options bttv pll=1 radio=0 card=0 # options tuner type=0 # options msp3400 once=1 simple=1 # post-install bttv /sbin/modprobe "-k" tuner; # /sbin/modprobe "-k" msp3400 options dummy0 -o dummy0 options dummy1 -o dummy1 ####################################################### # block dev aliases ####################################################### alias block-major-1 rd alias block-major-2 floppy alias block-major-3 off alias block-major-7 loop alias block-major-8 sd_mod alias block-major-11 sr_mod alias block-major-13 xd alias block-major-15 cdu31a alias block-major-16 gscd alias block-major-17 optcd alias block-major-18 sjcd alias block-major-20 mcdx alias block-major-22 off alias block-major-23 mcd alias block-major-24 sonycd535 alias block-major-25 sbpcd alias block-major-26 sbpcd alias block-major-27 sbpcd alias block-major-28 sbpcd alias block-major-29 aztcd alias block-major-32 cm206 alias block-major-33 off alias block-major-34 off # Alsa sound support. # Warning: please don't modify comments over aliases 'snd-card-#' # end of common part for modules.conf # begin of i386 part for modules.conf alias char-major-4 serial alias char-major-5 serial options snd snd_cards_limit=1 snd_major=116 options snd-intel8x0 snd_index=0 # --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. --- options off snd_enable=1 snd_index=0 # YaST2: sound system dependent part # alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-slot-1 off alias sound-service-1-0 off alias sound-slot-2 off alias sound-service-2-0 off alias sound-slot-3 off alias sound-service-3-0 off # uniq.virtual:Intel 82801DB-ICH4 alias snd-card-0 off alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-11 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss ####################################### -- David C. 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