SUSE 10.3 Toshiba A200-psafca sound not working

farkewie · 10-20-2007, 07:52 PM

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

Retrofill · 10-21-2007, 07:38 AM

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).

chuckbuhler · 10-21-2007, 03:25 PM

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.

DiBosco · 10-21-2007, 04:39 PM

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.

seelenbild28 · 10-22-2007, 07:13 AM

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

wmcgeorge · 11-27-2007, 08:12 PM

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.

subaru1963 · 01-23-2008, 08:41 AM

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.