[opensuse] No sound on my Toshiba Satellite A205-S4597 under SuSE 10.2
--Kernel: 2.6.18.8-0.1-default i686 --KMix volume control settings all the way up. --No error messages reported by dmesg on load. --alsasound starts and restarts successfully. Though the speakers pop when it is restarted which I've never experienced before. --Tried booting with acpi=off but the machine hangs when I do that so that is not apparently an option. --Device: 82801G (ICH7 Family) Hight Definition Audio Controller Driver: HDA Intel modules: modprobe snd_hda_intel Any ideas how I can get this working? Cheers, Ken -- ------s----a----m----s----i----x------ -- Ken Southerland Senior Consultant Sam Six, Inc. 503-236-4288 http://www.samsix.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 12 April 2007 19:20, Ken Southerland wrote:
--Device: 82801G (ICH7 Family) Hight Definition Audio Controller Driver: HDA Intel modules: modprobe snd_hda_intel
Any ideas how I can get this working? Yes... I have much experience in the matter...
... you will need to do the following things: 1) go the ALSA download (or one of their mirrors) and get the latest alsa driver. Get at least the 11 version , although 14.3 is out now. It will download as a tar. http://www.alsa-project.org/download.php This is one of the US mirrors ftp://ftp.silug.org/pub/alsa/driver Get alsa-driver-1.0.14rc3.tar.bz2 2) untar the file on your local machine with tar -xvjf alsa-driver-1.0.14rc3.tar.bz2 3) Read everything before doing anything--- FAQ, README, Makefile, etc. 4) Compile the driver for your sound card... 5) Install the driver Before you do this be sure to remove whatever Yast has done,,... use Yast to do the removal. Install the driver according to the instructions in the alsa directory on your system (where the tarball expanded). You will need to manually edit and modify the /etc/modprobe.d/sound file , and you will need to edit and modify the /etc/modprobe.conf and/or /etc/modprobe.conf.local files. Also, once you get it rolling manually, you will need to add snd-card-0 as a kernel modules entry in Yast system configuration editor... but we'll cross that bridge later. After you get things installed you probably will still not hear anything... because by default the alsa mixer settings are all zero. You will need to fire up a mixer (Kmix, or alsamixer, etc) and bring the volume levels up. Hope this helps you. -- Kind regards, M Harris <>< -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 12 April 2007 18:52, M Harris wrote:
Hope this helps you. Forgot to mention... when you get the drivers loaded (they will load and work well) the modules will be marked tainted. In other words, in dmesg, you will see a message for each of the sound modules... snd-mixer-oss, snd-pmc-oss, snd-hda-intel, etc... that says, "module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag".
There have been long discussions as to why... which I do not fully understand since the module snd-hda-intel is open... but oh well... by the by,.... The modules of the same name that shipped with openSUSE 10.0 do not work... but the modules in version 11 of the alsa driver do. I might suspect that the same is true for 10.2--- but don't know for sure yet... haven't loaded it. The other thing to understand about sound on a laptop is that even though they use standard chip sets in the sound cards... sometimes the hardware cannot be auto-detected because some of the hardware is simplified... in other words, you need to specify the the module options explicitly sometimes before the module will load. And another thing... make sure that the snd-pcm-oss module loads... sometimes it doesn't and you have to insert it manually modprobe snd-pcm-oss The same goes for the snd-mixer-oss module... this keeps the mixer from coming up even though the snd-hda-intel module loaded. modprobe snd-mixer-oss Write now--- as we speak--- I have another friends laptop in my lair and it won't play system sounds... the mixer works... the modules all load... alsa can be stopped and restarted without any errors... cds will play fine... but no system sounds from kde... **frustrating** !! But, I never give up... laptops are just hard to whip into shape sometimes... and you shouldn't give up either... good luck. -- Kind regards, M Harris <>< -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thu April 12 2007 20:20, Ken Southerland wrote:
Any ideas how I can get this working?
Hi Ken, Try this... as root: rcalsasound stop rm /etc/asound.state rcalsasound start alsactl store alsaconf When your sound is set correctly, open another terminal, 'su' to superuser and run 'alsactl store'... see 'man alsactl' for more info. hth & regards, Carl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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