For the first time in installing a SuSE Linux distribution, I can't get the sound to work. I've tried setting the volume controls on every sound and CD related program I cna find, cannot find anything muted, and know the hardware connections are correct - at least I would assume so - as I get sound on the winders side of the box. My configuration is an Asus P4PE motherboard with built in sound, a Sony CRX220A1 CD-R/RW player. P4 1.6 processor and 1 GB RAM but I doubt that these matter.OS of course is SuSE 8.2. Am I missing something obvious? tia, dave -- David C. Johanson Linux Counter # 116410 Powered by SuSE Linux 7.1 People who behold a phenomenon will often extend their thinking beyond it; people who merely hear about the phenomenon will not be moved to think at all. -- Goethe
* David Johanson (dcjohan@patriot.net) [030517 08:44]: ->For the first time in installing a SuSE Linux distribution, I can't get the ->sound to work. I've tried setting the volume controls on every sound and ->CD related program I cna find, cannot find anything muted, and know the ->hardware connections are correct - at least I would assume so - as I get ->sound on the winders side of the box. -> ->My configuration is an Asus P4PE motherboard with built in sound, a Sony ->CRX220A1 CD-R/RW player. P4 1.6 processor and 1 GB RAM but I doubt that ->these matter.OS of course is SuSE 8.2. -> ->Am I missing something obvious? 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. :) -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in the opposite direction.
I don't usually reply to my own posts. But I just read what I wrote. And it's a little sketchy. If it makes sense cool. I don't think I should answer posts before my first cup of coffee is finished. I make no sense. (no comments from Curtis. :P) ->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. :) -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in the opposite direction.
And in some folk's cases, after having a bit to many cups of coffee is just an issue also :-) How are you Ben ? Using 8.2 as my desktop now. Dee On Sat, 2003-05-17 at 08:40, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
I don't usually reply to my own posts. But I just read what I wrote. And it's a little sketchy. If it makes sense cool.
I don't think I should answer posts before my first cup of coffee is finished. I make no sense. (no comments from Curtis. :P)
->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. :)
-- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in the opposite direction.
* W.D. McKinney (deem@wdm.com) [030517 11:03]: ->And in some folk's cases, after having a bit to many cups of coffee is ->just an issue also :-) -> ->How are you Ben ? Using 8.2 as my desktop now. Yeah, I got it about 3 days after it was released and installed it. No issues yet. But then again I have common hardware and I never use onboard devices because they always have problem or they seem to. Specs: P4 2.4ghz on an Asus P4PE. 1G PC2700 RAM SBlive 5.1 ATI Radeon 7500 SMC 10/100 NIC 30G/60G IBM Deskstars Plextor 16x CDR Creative 52x Reader And I've had no problems with my Viewsonic VX900 flatpanel or the Epson 888 I've got attached to the machine. All in all 8.2 is probably the most solid release in my opinion since 6.3 which I found the MOST stable release I've used. But then again I dumped ReiserFS and did some weird partitioning. Everything seems quite faster. All in all I'd give 8.2 a A. :) -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in the opposite direction.
Ben Rosenberg wrote:
* David Johanson (dcjohan@patriot.net) [030517 08:44]: ->For the first time in installing a SuSE Linux distribution, I can't get the ->sound to work. I've tried setting the volume controls on every sound and ->CD related program I cna find, cannot find anything muted, and know the ->hardware connections are correct - at least I would assume so - as I get ->sound on the winders side of the box. -> ->My configuration is an Asus P4PE motherboard with built in sound, a Sony ->CRX220A1 CD-R/RW player. P4 1.6 processor and 1 GB RAM but I doubt that ->these matter.OS of course is SuSE 8.2. -> ->Am I missing something obvious?
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. :)
All the programs I can find under the "K" menu options CD and Sound have been checked multiple times and none are muted and I've set the volume to run at 75% or more. Checked start up and shutdowm which says starting and shutting down sound. YaST2 tells me that the card in recognized, installed properly, and that the sound drivers are working. Hoever, when I press the test buttton I get nothing, even when setting sounf levels to 100%. So with startup showing sound loaded, YaST2 saying all is well but not playing a test sound at any volume setting, nothing muted that I can find, and all the sound related progrms set to 75 - 90%, and still not getting sound onn the Linux side of th box, where should I looknext? dave -- David C. Johanson Linux Counter # 116410 Powered by SuSE Linux 7.1 People who behold a phenomenon will often extend their thinking beyond it; people who merely hear about the phenomenon will not be moved to think at all. -- Goethe
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 18 May 2003 12:30, David Johanson wrote: <snip>
All the programs I can find under the "K" menu options CD and Sound have been checked multiple times and none are muted and I've set the volume to run at 75% or more. Checked start up and shutdowm which says starting and shutting down sound. YaST2 tells me that the card in recognized, installed properly, and that the sound drivers are working. Hoever, when I press the test buttton I get nothing, even when setting sounf levels to 100%.
So with startup showing sound loaded, YaST2 saying all is well but not playing a test sound at any volume setting, nothing muted that I can find, and all the sound related progrms set to 75 - 90%, and still not getting sound onn the Linux side of th box, where should I looknext?
dave
With 8.0, one had to open a konsole and make the screen large enough, then use alsaconf. Alsa said specifically *not* to use YaST2. Maybe you can try it and see if alsaconf will do the trick. It'd be nice if it did, because there's no way I couldn't have no sound. Make sure to su, then just type alsaconf and you'll get prompts. John - -- A butterfly is: Pretty,soft,harmless...and useless, just like M$N. My Penguin and my Gecko eat butterflies. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+x8frH5oDXyLKXKQRAsPLAKCr6t0duQ7w1+vvew4B8Kl9aHXujwCgs6vj sef3S0vGG2EoEe8Sd/u0HRs= =YV8z -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Sunday 18 May 2003 12:30, David Johanson wrote:
So with startup showing sound loaded, YaST2 saying all is well but not playing a test sound at any volume setting, nothing muted that I can find, and all the sound related progrms set to 75 - 90%, and still not getting sound onn the Linux side of th box, where should I looknext?
Dave: Have you checked the volume control on your speakers? It may sound like a stupid question but once someone, probably me, turned my volume down and I looked for a while before I realized that was the problem. Doesnt hurt to check. Another thought, are your speakers driven by USB? If yes, does the usb see the speakers? If you fire up kmixer do you see all the controls for the sound card/chip? Can you go into your BIOS and look at the settings for your sound card? If yes, make sure the settngs you make with YAST2. match the BIOS settings. Richard
Hi Richard - For the moment I'm using the speakers built into the monitor, the volume is set at 50%, and that's plenty loud on the windows side. I've elected to also plug in a very high quality set of headphones and there is nothing playing through them either. In both cases the CD plays at a substantial volume with winders. The volume control aspect is not a stupid one as I just went through that with a friend who couldn't get any sound; his vol was at zero. Sadly, that's not the problem this time around. Speakers are not usb driven to my knowledge as they are built into the monitor. ALL the control programs I can find installed show the sound vol as being wherever I put it and for now everything is set above 50%. Alsaconfig says all is right in the world also, but I still hear nothing. BIOS is set to use the integrated mobo sound and it works again with winders. I don't find anything in common with the BIOS and YaST2 save the identification of the sound system. Is there something specific to which you are making referenc?. YaST2 also says all is well and that I should be enjoying sound. Perhaps I should try hooking up an externally powered set of speakers to see if that makes any difference, although I can't see how it would since the headphones produce no output with 8.2 but do with winders. dave Richard wrote:
On Sunday 18 May 2003 12:30, David Johanson wrote:
So with startup showing sound loaded, YaST2 saying all is well but not playing a test sound at any volume setting, nothing muted that I can find, and all the sound related progrms set to 75 - 90%, and still not getting sound onn the Linux side of th box, where should I looknext?
Dave:
Have you checked the volume control on your speakers? It may sound like a stupid question but once someone, probably me, turned my volume down and I looked for a while before I realized that was the problem. Doesnt hurt to check.
Another thought, are your speakers driven by USB? If yes, does the usb see the speakers? If you fire up kmixer do you see all the controls for the sound card/chip?
Can you go into your BIOS and look at the settings for your sound card? If yes, make sure the settngs you make with YAST2. match the BIOS settings.
Richard
-- David C. Johanson Linux Counter # 116410 Powered by SuSE Linux 7.1 People who behold a phenomenon will often extend their thinking beyond it; people who merely hear about the phenomenon will not be moved to think at all. -- Goethe
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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