Hi, all! i'm still trying to get my new PC up and running, and just came across a really weird error in the sound config module of yast... i have an on-board SB400/AC97 sound card from which i'm not getting any sound. So in the bios i disabled it and plugged in my PCI SB AudioPCI128 card (which works like an Ensonic). The older card has worked for several years in all versions of Suse, and was working yesterday in Suse 10.1 before my machine's main board died, so i know the sound card works. In the yast sound card configuration we see two columns: NUMBER and CARD MODEL. The cards start with number 0 and go up from there. Despite the fact that i had disabled the on-board card in the bios, yast still sees it and gives it the ID of card 0. To get around that, i used the Delete button to remove the card so i could get my Ensonic to have ID 0. Curiously, i then couldn't change any volume levels on the Ensonic card (the volume screen was completely empty except for the Test button). So... i deleted THAT card from yast and rebooted once. Now in yast i see both cards, first the Ensonic, then the on-board SB400, but niether of them have a number next to them. And when i click on one of them, the sound module simply crashes. i tried to be clever and use the ADD button to add a new card. However, after selecting my driver yast says there was an error loading the driver and won't let me continue the setup. i can see, using lsmod, that it DOES load the snd_ens1371 (and related) drivers. If i remove them and re-add an ens1371 card, yast still tells me that there was an error loading the module and that it can't continue, even though the module has demonstrably been loaded. The weirdest part, howver, is these two entries - one for my disabled on-board card and one for my SB PCI card - neither of which have a card ID number, and both of which cause yast to crash when i select EDIT on them. i can't even DELETE them now. They just sit there, mocking me. Any tips for getting yast to love my soundcard again? -- ----- stephan@s11n.net http://s11n.net "...pleasure is a grace and is not obedient to the commands of the will." -- Alan W. Watts
On Thursday 05 October 2006 23:13, stephan beal wrote:
The weirdest part, howver, is these two entries - one for my disabled on-board card and one for my SB PCI card - neither of which have a card ID number, and both of which cause yast to crash when i select EDIT on them. i can't even DELETE them now. They just sit there, mocking me.
Any tips for getting yast to love my soundcard again?
Another couple of reboots later: the on-board now appears with ID 0 in yast and the add-on card doesn't appear at all. Weird. i give up for tonight... we'll see how long i can live without audio, though. -- ----- stephan@s11n.net http://s11n.net "...pleasure is a grace and is not obedient to the commands of the will." -- Alan W. Watts
On Thursday 05 October 2006 17:39, stephan beal wrote:
Another couple of reboots later: the on-board now appears with ID 0 in yast and the add-on card doesn't appear at all. Weird.
Hi Stephan, Do you have another system running that other OS you can plug that card into? You might want to confirm that the add-in card didn't die first and pull down your previous mainboard with it. I know... the chance seems small... but the card not appearing at all tells me this is at least possible. regards, Carl
On Friday 06 October 2006 00:58, Carl Hartung wrote:
On Thursday 05 October 2006 17:39, stephan beal wrote:
Another couple of reboots later: the on-board now appears with ID 0 in yast and the add-on card doesn't appear at all. Weird.
Hi Stephan,
Do you have another system running that other OS you can plug that card into? You might want to confirm that the add-in card didn't die first and pull down your previous mainboard with it. I know... the chance seems small... but the card not appearing at all tells me this is at least possible.
Unfortunately not - my system with "another" OS is a laptop. i had the same suspicion, but i have no way of testing it. Suse can detect my add-in card, and set volume levels and such, but apparently only if i disable the on-board card. No matter how much i configure either card, though, no sound. The symptoms are the same on both cards, which is the most unusual thing. Really weird. i am, nonetheless, going to try to buy a 10 Euro card somewhere and see if it works, just to rule out your suspicion. i'm not in any mood to carry the PC back to the store just because of the sound card, and they would just say "must be the OS" because the hardware does indeed seem to be okay. Drivers load, mixer sees the cards, and i can even play audio files and watch the motion of the sound in, e.g., amarok... but i can't actually hear them. i also installed Kubuntu on this box, just to see if either sound card works there. It sees and auto-configures the on-board. Same thing, though - it "works" but i can't hear anything. Weird. -- ----- stephan@s11n.net http://s11n.net "...pleasure is a grace and is not obedient to the commands of the will." -- Alan W. Watts
On Thursday 05 October 2006 18:58, Carl Hartung wrote:
Do you have another system running that other OS you can plug that card into? You might want to confirm that the add-in card didn't die first and pull down your previous mainboard with it. I know... the chance seems small... but the card not appearing at all tells me this is at least possible.
Addendum: Some other ideas to try, from my 'troubleshooting' tips folder: 1. Try deleting the file /etc/modprobe.d/sound and running 'alsaconf' or 2. Try running this sequence of commands as root: rpm -e --nodeps kdemultimedia3-mixer (provides just the mixer; no dependencies) ldconfig rcalsasound stop rm /etc/asound.state rcalsasound start alsactl store then run: alsaconf After you have your sound settings right, open up another shell, su to root and type: alsactl store ... Read man alsactl for more info. or 3. If the above don't help, please post the output of these commands: cat /proc/asound/devices cat /proc/asound/cards cat /proc/asound/version cat /proc/asound/id cat /proc/interrupts regards, Carl
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