Hi im fairly new to linux so please be patient :-)

i have a Toshiba A200-psafca Laptop about 3 months old

Dual core 2.13~
2GB ram
200GB HD
nvidia 256 7300
and im pretty sure its an intel sound card.

i cant get any sound running suse 10.3 .
i had the same issue with 10.2 and thats why i stopped using it. i just could not get it working.

so i was hoping the issue would be resolved in 10.3.

when i look in yast and sound cards it shows up and kmix can see it but no sound i have made sure it is not muted and all of that.

any ideas would be great.

thanks in advance . ty



sound card = 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller

Try typing 'su' in the terminal, followed by your password.
Navigate to /boot/grub/menu.lst using 'cd'.
In your main SUSE OS loading section (should have openSUSE as title), put 'acpi=off' after the group of properties (the longest line on there).

However, I tried this on my Toshiba P100 and it disabled my wireless and battery meter , but the sound worked so maybe you won't have the same problem (a lot of people havent).

You might try running alsamixer from a console prompt and see what the sound settings are there. On my laptop, they were nearly muted and I had to turn all of them up before I could hear anything. My laptop is a Toshiba Tecra.

The Intel HD sound seems to be a real problem for lots of people.

Try this:

Mod the /etc/modprobe.d/sound file by adding at the bottom:

options snd-hda-intel model=toshiba index=0

With the caveat that Suse might be slightly different in its config file. ie Might be different location or the file might be named slightly differently.

it would be also enough to change the alsa version to the newest one by packman...

I'm on a Toshiba Satellite A135-S4467 running just-installed openSUSE 10.3 64-bit.
The sound is from an Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family).

I was able to get sound running by doing the following:

(1) Add a Repository (using YaST) for http with Server Name of download.opensuse.org , and Directory of /repositories/multimedia:/audio/openSUSE_10.3_Update . Yes, there's a colon after "multimedia"...

(2) Run YaST, and select Software Management.

(3) Add the patch alsa-driver-kmp-default (1.0.15.hg20071127_2.6.22.5_31).

(4) From YaST, select Sound. For me, everything defaulted correctly. The sound test was, literally, music to my ears.

i am new to linux and i have to say this site has been great in helping me to understand this new world and also in getting resolutions to most of my roadblocks so far. i wanted to say a special thank you to wmcgeorge for your post on adding the alsa repo, that enabled my sound to work. Thanks very much.