Hello all,

I have a problem getting sound working on a dell dimension e520 machine. The sound card is an onboard Sound-Blaster Audigy Advanced HD Audio. The linux system is OpenSuse 10.2 with kernel 2.6.18.2-34-default. I tried all as root.
I surfed the web a few days, but could not get the card working.

I tried to start alsamixer to unmute, but it says:
alsamixer: function snd_mixer_load failed: Invalid argument

alsaconf says:
setting default volumes
amixer: Mixer default load error: Invalid argument

lsmod says the following:
snd_hda_intel 37660 1
snd_hda_codec 220160 1 snd_hda_intel
snd_pcm 115464 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_timer 44680 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_hda_intel 37660 1
snd_hda_codec 220160 1 snd_hda_intel
snd_pcm 115464 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_timer 44680 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm

lspci says:
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev f2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HH (ICH8DH) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)

yast tells me that kernel module snd-emu-10k1 could not be loaded. Loading it manually seems to be working, but without success on hearing any sound.

I tried to turn off sound in KDE sound system as well.

xmms says:
** WARNING **: alsa_get_mixer(): Failed to load mixer: Invalid argument

I really hope someone can help me.

Regards,
Tom

disable the onboard sound in bios and try again

Thanks for your advice, but this wasn't successfull. The problem is that amixer doesn't work. To get the card unmuted I used aumix and it works!! Still don't know why amixer doesn't work.