Sound not working correctly in SuSE 10.0?
Hi - I just upgraded my laptop, a Dell Inspiron 8100, to SuSE 10.0 from 9.2 and now my sound is no longer functioning properly. When I boot up, KMix comes up with a red X across it's icon in the systray and does not present any volume controls or work. I did some searching on the internet and found one person saying to run alsaconf and this I did. That seems to partially restore my sound for some applications and if I restart KMix after doing so it works. But other applications, such as GAIM continue to not produce sound, so this remedy seems to only partially succeed. YAST reports under Hardware > Sounds that I am using an ESS Maestro3 PCI Card Model. When I try to "Edit" its configuration however I get a blank screen and can do nothing with making or setting any sort of configuration settings.. I don't know if this is expected/normal behavior for this sound card, but it seems rather odd to me... Any suggestions or help as to how I should proceed with getting my sound system working will be greatly appreciated of course! ;-) Marc....
On Wednesday 16 November 2005 01:33 am, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
Hi -
I just upgraded my laptop, a Dell Inspiron 8100, to SuSE 10.0 from 9.2 and now my sound is no longer functioning properly. When I boot up, KMix comes up with a red X across it's icon in the systray and does not present any volume controls or work. I did some searching on the internet and found one person saying to run alsaconf and this I did. That seems to partially restore my sound for some applications and if I restart KMix after doing so it works. But other applications, such as GAIM continue to not produce sound, so this remedy seems to only partially succeed.
YAST reports under Hardware > Sounds that I am using an ESS Maestro3 PCI Card Model. When I try to "Edit" its configuration however I get a blank screen and can do nothing with making or setting any sort of configuration settings.. I don't know if this is expected/normal behavior for this sound card, but it seems rather odd to me...
Any suggestions or help as to how I should proceed with getting my sound system working will be greatly appreciated of course! ;-) Marc....
Did you try deleting the sound card item and rebooting? If it's not auto-detected, go back into YaST and add it. Steven
Steven T. Hatton wrote:
On Wednesday 16 November 2005 01:33 am, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
Hi -
I just upgraded my laptop, a Dell Inspiron 8100, to SuSE 10.0 from 9.2 and now my sound is no longer functioning properly. When I boot up, KMix comes up with a red X across it's icon in the systray and does not present any volume controls or work. I did some searching on the internet and found one person saying to run alsaconf and this I did. That seems to partially restore my sound for some applications and if I restart KMix after doing so it works. But other applications, such as GAIM continue to not produce sound, so this remedy seems to only partially succeed.
YAST reports under Hardware > Sounds that I am using an ESS Maestro3 PCI Card Model. When I try to "Edit" its configuration however I get a blank screen and can do nothing with making or setting any sort of configuration settings.. I don't know if this is expected/normal behavior for this sound card, but it seems rather odd to me...
Any suggestions or help as to how I should proceed with getting my sound system working will be greatly appreciated of course! ;-) Marc....
Did you try deleting the sound card item and rebooting? If it's not auto-detected, go back into YaST and add it.
Steven
Thanks Steven, but I am still not having much luck... When I bring up the YAST >Hardware>Sound Configuration GUI, I get two items listed as follows - Number Card Model Sound card Not configured ES1983S Maestro-3i (Dell Inspiron 8100) --- With the Sound card item selected, this GUI shows the following additional information for it - * Configured as sound card number * Driver snd-maestro3 If I click on Edit I get a new but blank GUI that has no buttons or fields within it. And YaST does absolutely nothing if I click on the Delete button for this item, and it seems to completely ignore my request to delete it --- With the ES1983S Maestro-3i item selected, this GUI displays the following additional information - * The device is not configured * Press Edit to configure Clicking on Delete again does absolutely nothing. However when I click on Edit I get a new GUI that explains that this sound card will be configured as the second sound card (snd-card-1) and it gives me 3 toggle choices - Quick automatic setup Normal setup Advance setup with possibility to change options it defaults to having the Quick automatic setup selected. If I select either the Quick automatic setup or the Normal setup and then click on the Next button I get the following error message - An error occurred during the installation of ES1983S Maestro-3i (Dell Inspiron 8100) The kernal module snd-maestro3 for sound support could not be loaded. This can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters. If I selected the Advance setup option, then click on Next, I get a new GUI window which has a table showing me two advance options that I guess I can set/change - Description Option Value GPIO pin number for external amp. (default=-1) amp_gpio Enable external amp for ESS Maestro3/Allegro/Canyon3D-2 soundcard. external_amp 1 None of this makes any sense to me, so if I just leave them alone and dont change anything, click on the Next button, I then get the above mentioned error message again. So I am still at a loss as to how to fix this and proceed... Nothing seems to be deletable and I seem to be encountering an error of some kind that I have no idea what to do about... Got any more ideas or suggestions on how I should proceed? Thanks again in advance... Marc...
On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 09:15:53AM -0800, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
So I am still at a loss as to how to fix this and proceed... Nothing seems to be deletable and I seem to be encountering an error of some kind that I have no idea what to do about... Got any more ideas or suggestions on how I should proceed? Thanks again in advance...
Marc, it's been discussed couple times on this list in the past week or so. It's a bug in YAST (recorded in bugzilla). YAST sound module does not create a proper entry in /etc/sysconfig/hardware directory for the sound card and kernel modules are not loaded into memory. The soulution is to remove current card in YAST. Exit YAST (this is important), otherwise you get that message "cannot load modules". Make sure no sound modules are loaded (look at the output of lsmod command and if there are any, remove them with rmmod) Start YAST again and configure sound card. Use "Quick mode". This is important too, as other modes do not create entries in /etc/sysconfig/hardware. Make sure the card produces sound using test in YAST. Exit YAST. Look at the files in /etc/sysconfig/hardware directory and locate the file wich list module for your sound card. Rename that file to hwcfg-static-<number> Then your configuration will survive reboot and coldplug will load your sound card module into memory. In 9.3 modules were loaded by rcalsasound script. In 10.0 this functionality was moved to coldplug. -Kastus
Kastus Shchuka wrote:
On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 09:15:53AM -0800, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
So I am still at a loss as to how to fix this and proceed... Nothing seems to be deletable and I seem to be encountering an error of some kind that I have no idea what to do about... Got any more ideas or suggestions on how I should proceed? Thanks again in advance...
Marc, it's been discussed couple times on this list in the past week or so.
It's a bug in YAST (recorded in bugzilla). YAST sound module does not create a proper entry in /etc/sysconfig/hardware directory for the sound card and kernel modules are not loaded into memory.
The soulution is to remove current card in YAST. Exit YAST (this is important), otherwise you get that message "cannot load modules".
Make sure no sound modules are loaded (look at the output of lsmod command and if there are any, remove them with rmmod)
Start YAST again and configure sound card. Use "Quick mode". This is important too, as other modes do not create entries in /etc/sysconfig/hardware.
Make sure the card produces sound using test in YAST.
Exit YAST.
Look at the files in /etc/sysconfig/hardware directory and locate the file wich list module for your sound card. Rename that file to hwcfg-static-<number>
Then your configuration will survive reboot and coldplug will load your sound card module into memory.
In 9.3 modules were loaded by rcalsasound script. In 10.0 this functionality was moved to coldplug.
-Kastus
Thank You Kastus very much! This seems to have fixed my sound problems! I wasn't sure what to remove with rmmod so removed anything and everything that seemed related to sounds, and I noted that these removed modules and a couple new ones came back after rebooting. Couldn't find the test button in YAST that you mentioned but all seems to be working now so not an issue for me... Hopefully Novel/SuSE/YAST Linux folks will get this fixed via their next release... I apologize for apparently having brought this problem up again on this newsgroup, I tried searching the archives before posting but found there is no search engine there. I could only use the find command in my browser to search through (only) all the subject listings and didn't come up with any postings that way, that would help... Thanks again to all who helped out... Marc....
Ummmm did it occur to you that you select the Music CD option and then you drag and drop them in HOW you want them on the CD? I do it all the time. And I don't think I've ever had a problem using non MP3 stuff. If you want to change the layout of the CD you drag the file to another place.... Select the Music CD project next time.... -Allen
On Wednesday 16 November 2005 12:15 pm, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
Thanks Steven, but I am still not having much luck... When I bring up the YAST >Hardware>Sound Configuration GUI, I get two items listed as follows -
Number Card Model Sound card Not configured ES1983S Maestro-3i (Dell Inspiron 8100)
The errors you are describing are very similar to what I was getting with an SBLive!. I don't recall all that I did, but I know one of the steps was to delete the existing entries. Perhaps you should try to remove all the sound related RPMs. That can be a hastel, especially if you are not familiar with the way all this works, I don't have a better suggestion. Hopefully someone else does. Steven
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