Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1483 mails)

[Basil Chupin <blchupin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/02/12 23:59, C wrote:
> I'm trying to help a friend get a computer set up on openSUSE 12.1
> (migrating from Ubuntu 10.10), and everything is working on the
> openSUSE 12.1 KDE4 LiveCD except sound.
>
> On the existing Ubuntu 10.10 setup we found this info:
>
> aplay - l
> **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
> card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: ALC889A Analog [ALC889A Analog]
> Subdevices: 1/1
> Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 1: ALC889A Digital [ALC889A Digital]
> Subdevices: 1/1
> Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
>
>   lshw -c sound
> *-multimedia
> description: Audio device
> product: MCP79 High Definition Audio
> vendor: nVidia Corporation
> physical id: 8
> bus info: pci@0000:00:08.0
> version: b1
> width: 32 bits
> clock: 66MHz
> capabilities: bus_master cap_list
> configuration: driver=HDA Intel latency=0 maxlatency=5 mingnt=2
> resources: irq:21 memory:f9e78000-f9e7bfff
>
> To "fix" it on Ubuntu, it required that we edit
> /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf and add medion-md2 to the options
>
>    options snd-hda-intel model=medion-md2 power_save=10 power_save_controller=N
>
> So.. that's all nice and works with another distro using Alsa... but
> this is openSUSE and Pulse.
>
> What we tried - Checked all sound volume sliders in KMixer and YaST to
> make sure volumes were up and not muted.  Checked YaST to make sure
> the card was detected which it is.  We stopped at this point to give
> me time to try and find a little more information.
>
> So, has anyone here had any success/experience with this sound card in
> openSUSE 12.1?  Any tips or suggestions?
>
>   - I'd prefer to keep it on Pulse if I can.  Alsa is possible, but..
> I'd much rather see it working on the default setup vs removing Pulse
>   - I don't have the luxury of experimenting much since the computer is
> something like 16,000km away, I kind of hope to have a few answers in
> hand when we try to do the install this weekend.

As I just suggested to Duaine, pulse works on top of alsa so you need to 
get the setup done correctly in alsa first before pulse will work 
correctly. Use alsamixer and select the audio device using (?)F6, then 
do the channels.

BC


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