Marc Chamberlin wrote:
Rodney Baker wrote:
On Tuesday 23 December 2008 11:31:11 Marc Chamberlin wrote:
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I can not say a whole lot about the sound system that is on the motherboard itself, other than to say that drivers which are installed for it have a name prefix of CX88. I never use (or want to) this sound chip and in fact have disabled it in the BIOS. But despite that, SuSE and ALSA seem to be finding it. And if that is the chip that is in fact being activated for my sound, then it is no wonder I cannot hear any sound. (since nothing is hooked up to it)
The sound setup tool in YaST only reports the Audigy Sound card BUT when I run Alsaconf to set it up I am getting the following error messages -
Loading driver... Shutting down sound driver ERROR: Module snd_pcm is in use by cx88_alsa ERROR: Module snd_timer is in use by snd_pcm ERROR: Module snd_page_alloc is in use by snd_pcm ERROR: Module snd is in use by cx88_alsa, snd_pmc, snd_timer
Try running rmmod cx88_alsa (or modprobe -r cx88_alsa), then re-run alsaconf. You may need to manually run modprobe -i <audigy driver module> but I'm not sure.
If that works, try blacklisting the cx88_alsa module by adding it to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist - this will tell the system not to load that module automatically, despite apparently finding the hardware. You can still explicitly load it via modprobe.
It may also be worth checking to see that the module for the audigy card is not actually blacklisted too. If it is, even though you can load it as described above it will not be loaded automatically.
Hope this helps. Rodney.
Thanks Rodney for your suggestions, I really thought you had the answer but still no joy with my sound! So another look at the log files has revealed what to me appears to be a new angle on this problem, and again I am not sure how to fix. So do you and anyone else got an idea on this? -
Dec 23 09:38:19 nova pulseaudio[4237]: pid.c: Stale PID file, overwriting. Dec 23 09:38:20 nova pulseaudio[4237]: alsa-util.c: Error opening PCM device hw:0: Device or resource busy Dec 23 09:38:20 nova pulseaudio[4237]: module.c: Failed to load module "module-alsa-sink" (argument: "device_id=0 sink_name=alsa_out put.usb_device_8bb_2900_noserial_if0_sound_card_0_alsa_playback_0 tsched=1"): initialization failed. Dec 23 09:38:20 nova pulseaudio[4237]: alsa-util.c: Cannot find fallback mixer control "Mic".
BTW running alsaconf now seems to work in that no errors are reported.. just no sound yet...
Marc...
As a follow up, I have dropped back to SuSE11.0 and tried to bring up the sound system. Still no joy! So apparently this sound system failure has occurred for my sound card since 11.0??? I am rather stuck now, I tried to drop back to 10.3, which was working, but my installation CD failed. I would really like to get SuSE11.1 working, but I will start downloading 10.3 just in case I must go back to it... Marc... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org