Hi, i got a problem with my distro Suse 10.1 on my Laptop, the sound doesnt work... I don't know what to do, someone can help me please. I'm not a newbie, i already check the volume... and the mixer that is not the problem... i think that the suse 10.1 is not compatible with that sound card. I was reading some forums and i found that someone have the same problem with another laptop with the same sound card and he said that the kernel don't have the driver for the sound card.

I check the ALSA Project page and try to install the last version of it, but when i install it stop working the nvidia driver for graphics. And i don't found my sound card on the list of supported sound cards...

Someone can help me to resolve my problem??

Thanks.

Sorry for my english but i'm from Latin America... u.u

Hi

Have you tried to run:

lspci

to see how your soundcard is listed? Also, you should run, as root, lsmod to see if the correct sound modules are loaded.

Post this information and we may be able to help further.

Bob

this is very close to my hp dv8235nr. at boot (grub) type acpi=off its the hd audio and acpi dont work together. does acpi work on yours? i installed with it off and can not turn it on (no /proc/acpi/ directory)

Here is the result of lspci:
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linux-laptop:~ # lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS/940GML and 945GT Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) Serial ATA Storage Controller IDE (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0298 (rev a1)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82573L Gigabit Ethernet Controller
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02)
0a:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments Unknown device 8039
0a:04.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments Unknown device 803a
0a:04.2 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments Unknown device 803b
0a:04.3 Class 0805: Texas Instruments Unknown device 803c


Here is the result of lsmod:
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linux-laptop:~ # lsmod
Module Size Used by
arc4 5888 1
ieee80211_crypt_wep 8704 1
af_packet 28296 4
bluetooth 51300 0
xt_pkttype 5760 3
ipt_LOG 9856 12
xt_limit 6528 12
vmnet 36904 13
parport_pc 39524 0
parport 37192 1 parport_pc
vmmon 171820 0
cpufreq_ondemand 10632 2
cpufreq_userspace 8448 0
cpufreq_powersave 5760 0
speedstep_centrino 11184 1
freq_table 8448 1 speedstep_centrino
snd_pcm_oss 47104 0
snd_mixer_oss 20480 3 snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq 53360 0
snd_seq_device 11916 1 snd_seq
edd 12484 0
button 10640 0
battery 13444 0
ac 8964 0
ip6t_REJECT 8960 3
xt_tcpudp 7040 11
ipt_REJECT 9216 3
xt_state 6016 12
iptable_mangle 6656 0
iptable_nat 11652 0
ip_nat 20268 1 iptable_nat
iptable_filter 6912 1
ip6table_mangle 6272 0
ip_conntrack 49880 3 xt_state,iptable_nat,ip_nat
nfnetlink 10264 2 ip_nat,ip_conntrack
ip_tables 16196 3 iptable_mangle,iptable_nat,iptable_filter
ip6table_filter 6656 1
ip6_tables 17604 2 ip6table_mangle,ip6table_filter
x_tables 16388 10 xt_pkttype,ipt_LOG,xt_limit,ip6t_REJECT,xt_tcpudp,ipt_REJECT,xt_state,iptable_nat,ip_tables,ip6_tabl es
ipv6 242272 19 ip6t_REJECT
apparmor 53144 0
aamatch_pcre 17408 1 apparmor
nls_utf8 6016 1
ntfs 201364 1
loop 19080 0
dm_mod 57936 0
nvidia 4548276 12
usbhid 44640 0
pcmcia 39100 0
ipw3945 173600 1
snd_hda_intel 21652 3
ohci1394 34224 0
snd_hda_codec 137856 1 snd_hda_intel
ieee1394 93880 1 ohci1394
intel_agp 24988 1
yenta_socket 27660 1
rsrc_nonstatic 16384 1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core 41748 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
agpgart 33352 2 nvidia,intel_agp
ieee80211 32968 1 ipw3945
ieee80211_crypt 9728 2 ieee80211_crypt_wep,ieee80211
firmware_class 13952 2 pcmcia,ipw3945
snd_pcm 86788 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_timer 25860 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 57092 10 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 13024 3 snd
ehci_hcd 31880 0
snd_page_alloc 13576 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
uhci_hcd 32400 0
e1000 108216 0
i2c_i801 12044 0
i2c_core 24064 2 nvidia,i2c_i801
usbcore 116612 4 usbhid,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd
i8xx_tco 11032 0
reiserfs 217856 2
fan 8580 0
thermal 17416 0
processor 31208 2 speedstep_centrino,thermal
sr_mod 18596 1
cdrom 36512 1 sr_mod
sg 35996 0
ata_piix 14212 5
libata 69776 1 ata_piix
sd_mod 20352 5
scsi_mod 128008 4 sr_mod,sg,libata,sd_mod

ok, when i did this the sound works but the kpowersave and other apps to check system information stop working and i need them a lot. There is a way to get everything working fine??

And i don't know why i up the volume and when i change a song on amarok the volume down to the default... how can i repair that...?


Sorry for my english.

Thanks for your help!! n.n

add

to modprobe.conf, and see if that works.

This is your audio:

These are your sound modules:

The kernel is recognizing everything and sound modules are loaded.

You probably already have, but I will ask anyway; have you tried:

alsamixer from the command line, and alsaconf?

Since you have all the proper hardware modules loaded and recognized, it may be nothing more than a muted master volume, which is corrected with alsamixer. If that does not work, try the inclusion into modprobe file as suggested above.

Hope this helps

Bob

I had the same problem with SuSE 10.1 on both my desktop and laptop. For some reason, using the Helix engine with Amarok causes the volume to be reset every time a track is played. Switching to the xine engine solves the problem.

To enable mp3 support with xine, it will be necessary to replace the default SuSE xine-lib with libxine1 from a Packman Repository. I also dumped the default SuSE amarok-xine package and switched to a 1.4.* version from Guru's repositories.

I doubt it's necessary, but I also grabbed all the various libxine1-* plugins. You should be fine just replacing xine-lib with libxine1, reinstalling amarok-xine, and then switching to the xine engine in the amarok settings.

Hope this helps.