Hello I have recently installed Suse 10.2 and cannot get the sound to work, my mother board is a gigabyte 915p.

I have modified my user account to include the audio group but I still cannot get the audio to work.

In yast sound configuration it identifies my sound device as 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller
Configured as sound card number 0
Driver snd-hda-intel

This is a fresh install from 10.1 which I could also not get the audio to work.

I have followed the instructions from this web page softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/60/" but still no luck.

Any help for this linux newbe will be greatly appreciated,

Thanks Fillister

lsmod shows this
Module Size Used by
snd_pcm_oss 53376 0
snd_mixer_oss 21248 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq 60272 0
snd_seq_device 12812 1 snd_seq
snd_hda_intel 23060 1
snd_hda_codec 164352 1 snd_hda_intel
snd_pcm 86916 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_timer 27908 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 61188 10 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,s nd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
af_packet 29320 2
radeon 108832 2
drm 71316 3 radeon
xt_pkttype 6016 3
ipt_LOG 10624 8
xt_limit 6912 8
button 10896 0
battery 14340 0
ac 9476 0
ip6t_REJECT 9344 3
xt_tcpudp 7296 3
ipt_REJECT 9472 3
xt_state 6272 12
iptable_mangle 7040 0
iptable_nat 11524 0
ip_nat 21804 1 iptable_nat
iptable_filter 7168 1
ip6table_mangle 6528 0
ip_conntrack 52960 3 xt_state,iptable_nat,ip_nat
nfnetlink 11032 2 ip_nat,ip_conntrack
ip_tables 17604 3 iptable_mangle,iptable_nat,iptable_filter
ip6table_filter 7040 1
ip6_tables 18756 2 ip6table_mangle,ip6table_filter
x_tables 18180 10 xt_pkttype,ipt_LOG,xt_limit,ip6t_REJECT,xt_tcpudp, ipt_REJECT,xt_state,iptable_nat,ip_tables,ip6_tabl es
ipv6 263584 19 ip6t_REJECT
apparmor 55572 0
aamatch_pcre 18304 1 apparmor
nls_iso8859_1 8320 1
nls_cp437 9984 1
vfat 16640 1
fat 55324 1 vfat
nls_utf8 6272 5
ntfs 210580 5
loop 20488 0
dm_mod 60184 0
usbhid 52192 0
pcmcia 40892 0
firmware_class 14080 1 pcmcia
ide_cd 42272 0
cdrom 38432 1 ide_cd
intel_agp 27804 1
ohci1394 37040 0
agpgart 35528 2 drm,intel_agp
ieee1394 102584 1 ohci1394
soundcore 13792 1 snd
yenta_socket 30348 1
tg3 104580 0
i2c_i801 11660 0
rsrc_nonstatic 17024 1 yenta_socket
uhci_hcd 26892 0
pcmcia_core 43412 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
i2c_core 25216 1 i2c_i801
ehci_hcd 34696 0
snd_page_alloc 14472 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
usbcore 114896 3 usbhid,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd
parport_pc 42084 1
lp 15652 0
parport 39752 2 parport_pc,lp
ext3 141192 1
mbcache 12804 1 ext3
jbd 70324 1 ext3
edd 13892 0
fan 8964 0
via82cxxx 12804 0 [permanent]
ata_piix 19332 0
sg 38044 0
ahci 25860 8
libata 119188 2 ata_piix,ahci
piix 13700 0 [permanent]
thermal 18568 0
processor 34664 1 thermal
sd_mod 24576 10
scsi_mod 136712 4 sg,ahci,libata,sd_mod
ide_disk 20480 0
ide_core 129992 4 ide_cd,via82cxxx,piix,ide_disk

I have often found that the Alsa sound system may have the master volume set to zero. You can log in as any user, open a terminal window, and start alsa mixer GUI with the following command.
You will see a large window that looks like a sound mixer on a stereo. Push all of the volume controls up to the top. You may only have to adjust the master volume and the PCM volume, but it won't hurt to push them all up. If that works then you will want to have a volume control available at all times. Since I use the KDE window manager I use the Kmix sound mixer. If you use Gnome for a window manager then I don't know what sound volume control applet is available.

Hello, Stress Junkie

This Is result of while in terminal mode I thinking that I'm not in the proper directory or entered the command improperly.

Thanks for helping this noob

greg@linux-cdys:~> alsamixergui
bash: alsamixergui: command not found

That is very strange. The command was entered properly. SuSE will install it by default. Either your PATH environment variable isn't set properly or you don't have this alsamixergui on your system. Let's check the PATH variable first. Do the following command and compare the results to what I have:
If you get the same results, in any order, then your PATH variable is okay. The next thing is to look for the alsamixergui binary. Enter the following command and compare your results:
Your results may vary a bit because I'm doing this on PCLinuxOS, but you should see something similar.

If you don't see something like the results of the last test then log on as root, run YaST, go to the applet to add and remove software, look for Alsa Mixer GUI and install it. While you're there make sure that you have the Alsa sound system installed. If you don't have Alsa sound system installed then install it.

There are other mixers but the Alsa Mixer GUI is the best because it always works when other mixers may not work.

Stress_Junkie thanks for taking your time to help me out, here is the reply in terminal




greg@linux-cdys:~> $ echo $PATH
bash: $: command not found
greg@linux-cdys:~>

I'm sorry. I shouldn't have included the dollar sign at the beginning.

Remove the first "$" in "$ echo $PATH".

You might also try "alsamixer" instead of "alsamixergui"

Stress_Junkie,




greg@linux-cdys:~> echo $PATH
/home/greg/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/bin:/usr/games:/opt/gnome/bin:/opt/kde3/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/jre/bin:/usr/lib/mit/bin:/usr/lib/mit/sbin
greg@linux-cdys:~>

greg@linux-cdys:~> locate alsamixergui
bash: locate: command not found

Stress_junkie

Well I went ahead and installed alsamixergui and Alsa via Yast, rebooted and still nothing, mixer levels are up and speaker icons on, also checked for sound with cd,video file mpeg and mp3.. still nothing.

Is there somthing else I can check?

Thanks for all your help

Fillister

Okay so your PATH is okay. I don't understand why your system didn't have the locate utility. For that matter I don't understand why your system didn't have the Alsa software. SuSE installs all of this stuff in a default installation. So that makes me wonder what happened when you installed SuSE.

Have you checked the wires to the speakers and the volume control on the speakers?

You won't be able to play MP3 files on SuSE unless you go through a lot of extra steps. Novell doesn't want you to play MP3 files on SuSE. Maybe that is the problem.

Use your web browser and go to youtube.com. Play a video and see if you can hear the audio part of it.

Other than that I am about out of ideas. I haven't done a pure default installation of SuSE for the v10 series. I always tell the installer to add a bunch of things.

An idea: Check to see that you haven't disabled the onboard audio in BIOS

Hmmmmm very interesting Utube does not play audio, bios turned on and sound works when I boot into windows. What gets me is that the locate command does not work and alsa were not installed. I followed the installation procedures for 10.2 and things went quite smooth...should I reinstall then see if these commands are present?

Stress_junkie and J.W

IT's alive alive I say...... mission accomplished we now have mp3 playback....

As Stress_junkie stated I went back and checked all connections, what was misleading me was that in windows the output jacks were autosensing I could plug in anywhere and get a line out connection. Linux not so it wanted the actual line out jack. Sorry to put you guys through so much trouble for such a stupid mistake!!

Linux and you guys are just too COOL.

Now I just have to figure out why the locate command does not work.

Thank you so much for your help

Sweet - nice job fillister. Congrats on solving the problem and for posting back with the update. Rock on