No sound from my Audigy 2 ZS on SuSE 9.1

eric_brissette · 05-20-2004, 07:38 PM

I'll start by saying I'm new to Linux, so please give me detailed answers.

Specs:
SuSE Personal edition 9.1 (kernel 2.6.4-54.5-smp)
Asus P4P800 mobo
Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS sound card

I disabled my AC97 on-board sound in the BIOS.

I ran alsaconf and went through the dialogs.
I ran alsamixer and raised all levels to 50
double checked my levels in KAMix, they all look fine.

Tried to play an mp3 in XMMS. It looks as if it's playing, but I've got no sound. (no error messages)

Tried to play an audio CD with KsCD, and no sound there either.

I do hear a pop in the speakers when sound is initialized during startup.. and I did hear a pop in the speakers when going through alsaconf.

Output from lsmod:

Code:

snd_seq_oss            35456  0
snd_pcm_oss            62376  0
snd_mixer_oss          21248  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_midi           10272  0
snd_emu10k1_synth      10240  0
snd_emux_synth         43392  1 snd_emu10k1_synth
snd_seq_virmidi         9344  1 snd_emux_synth
snd_seq_midi_event      8960  3 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_virmidi
snd_seq_midi_emul       8960  1 snd_emux_synth
snd_seq                62096  8 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq_midi_emul
snd_emu10k1            97928  2 snd_emu10k1_synth
snd_rawmidi            27940  3 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_emu10k1
snd_pcm               109572  3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_emu10k1
snd_timer              29060  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_seq_device          9608  7 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi
snd_ac97_codec         66308  1 snd_emu10k1
snd_util_mem            6016  2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
snd_hwdep              11396  2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
snd                    67684  19 snd_seq_oss,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq_midi_emul,snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_seq_device,snd_ac97_codec,snd_util_mem,snd_hwdep
hid                    44224  0
edd                    10648  0
joydev                 11200  0
st                     41500  0
sr_mod                 17188  0
nvram                  10248  0
usbserial              32752  0
parport_pc             37824  1
lp                     12164  0
parport                41032  2 parport_pc,lp
emu10k1_gp              4480  0
gameport                5760  1 emu10k1_gp
ohci1394               33284  0
ieee1394              106424  1 ohci1394
uhci_hcd               34192  0
ehci_hcd               29444  0
intel_agp              18460  1
agpgart                30764  1 intel_agp
hw_random               6292  0
thermal                13320  0
processor              17408  1 thermal
fan                     4868  0
button                  6928  0
battery                 9476  0
ac                      5764  0
snd_page_alloc         12936  2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
soundcore              10336  1 snd
ipv6                  270980  17
af_packet              22920  0
usbcore               106204  6 hid,usbserial,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd
sk98lin               158792  1
evdev                  10752  0
subfs                   8832  2
nls_utf8                3072  2
ntfs                   90956  2
dm_mod                 54144  0
ide_cd                 39300  1
cdrom                  39452  2 sr_mod,ide_cd
reiserfs              251984  1
ata_piix                8580  4
libata                 40192  1 ata_piix,[permanent]
sd_mod                 21632  6
scsi_mod              114372  4 st,sr_mod,libata,sd_mod

Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated.

On a side note.. is it possible to get a third mouse button (like one on the side of an Intellimouse Explorer) to act as a browser back button in Linux?

slackMeUp · 05-20-2004, 08:21 PM

First off...

Open Control Center....

Find the aRts section... (should be under sound device, but not the YaST version!)

Tell it to use alsa... if it is not already...

Then open Kmix.

Click the advanced button... streach the window a bit bigger and note if the green light (on) is glowing next to something called audigy analogue/digital out. If it is then you are in digital mode, so unless you connect your speakers via a single digital cable, turn off the light (click on it).

Then open up XMMS.

while the XMMS program is raised (click on it as if you are using it) hit Ctrl+p (no +, just both Ctrl and p at the same time) and in the first tab look at the output plugin plain neer the bottom of the window.

make sure it is set to alsa. hit ok.

play something. Then adjust the alsamixer settings to your what you like using Kmix (it's a front end for alsamixer/amixer)

Xian · 05-20-2004, 09:10 PM

I really hadn't planned on naming my first born child slackMeUp, but the heck with it. Consider it done. I have been looking for a fix for my soundcard problem ever since installing 9.1 and you have just provided it on a platter with a cherry on top.

Thank you so much!!

eric_brissette · 05-20-2004, 11:03 PM

Okay, well in my Sound System, under Hardware, I changed the Audio Device from Autodetect to "Advanced Linux Sound Architecture" (That took me a while... I didn't realize that's what ALSA stood for)

I applied changes and rebooted (just in case)

I had already checked XMMS to make sure it was using the ALSA Output Plugin, and it is.

I don't have any of the nifty features you're talking about in KAMix (no green lights or analog/digital switches) just plain jane Master and PCM volume controls.

Still no sound.

slackMeUp · 05-20-2004, 11:12 PM

First off... unlike in Windows, very few things require a reboot. So unless you are changing your kernel... don't worry about it.

Now you did click the advanced button in Kmix? It's neer the bottom. It should have some extra options... like tone, and others.

If not... please post the output of this command.

Code:

amixer

It's going to be long...

EDIT: if you are having trouble grabing all the output from amixer... do this...

Code:

amixer > amixOut.txt

Then open the amixOut.txt file in whatever directory you ran the command in and copy n' paste the text here.

eric_brissette · 05-20-2004, 11:28 PM

I'm going to install Kmix. KAMix doen't have any advanced features at all.

Here is the output from amixer:

Code:

Simple mixer control 'Master',0
  Capabilities: pvolume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 100
  Front Left: Playback 51 [51%]
  Front Right: Playback 51 [51%]
Simple mixer control 'Tone',0
  Capabilities: pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback [off]
  Front Right: Playback [off]
Simple mixer control 'Bass',0
  Capabilities: volume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: 0 - 40
  Mono: 20 [50%]
  Front Left:
  Front Right:
Simple mixer control 'Treble',0
  Capabilities: volume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: 0 - 40
  Mono: 20 [50%]
  Front Left:
  Front Right:
Simple mixer control '3D Control - Switch',0
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [off]
Simple mixer control '3D Control Sigmatel - Depth',0
  Capabilities: volume volume-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Limits: 0 - 3
  Mono: 0 [0%]
Simple mixer control 'PCM',0
  Capabilities: pvolume cvolume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 100 Capture 0 - 100
  Front Left: Playback 51 [51%] Capture 50 [50%]
  Front Right: Playback 51 [51%] Capture 50 [50%]
Simple mixer control 'PCM Center',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Limits: Playback 0 - 100
  Mono: Playback 100 [100%]
Simple mixer control 'PCM Front',0
  Capabilities: pvolume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 100
  Front Left: Playback 100 [100%]
  Front Right: Playback 100 [100%]
Simple mixer control 'PCM LFE',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Limits: Playback 0 - 100
  Mono: Playback 100 [100%]
Simple mixer control 'PCM Surround',0
  Capabilities: pvolume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 100
  Front Left: Playback 100 [100%]
  Front Right: Playback 100 [100%]
Simple mixer control 'Surround',0
  Capabilities: pvolume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 100
  Front Left: Playback 0 [0%]
  Front Right: Playback 0 [0%]
Simple mixer control 'Center',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Limits: Playback 0 - 100
  Mono: Playback 0 [0%]
Simple mixer control 'LFE',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Limits: Playback 0 - 100
  Mono: Playback 0 [0%]
Simple mixer control 'Music',0
  Capabilities: pvolume cvolume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 100 Capture 0 - 100
  Front Left: Playback 100 [100%] Capture 100 [100%]
  Front Right: Playback 100 [100%] Capture 100 [100%]
Simple mixer control 'Line',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 31
  Front Left: Playback 16 [52%] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 16 [52%] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Line2',0
  Capabilities: pvolume cvolume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 100 Capture 0 - 100
  Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] Capture 0 [0%]
  Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] Capture 0 [0%]
Simple mixer control 'CD',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 31
  Front Left: Playback 17 [55%] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 17 [55%] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Mic',0
  Capabilities: pvolume cvolume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 100 Capture 0 - 100
  Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] Capture 0 [0%]
  Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] Capture 0 [0%]
Simple mixer control 'Mic Boost (+20dB)',0
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [off]
Simple mixer control 'Phone',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Limits: Playback 0 - 31
  Mono: Playback 0 [0%] [off]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958 Optical',0
  Capabilities: pvolume cvolume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 100 Capture 0 - 100
  Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] Capture 0 [0%]
  Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] Capture 0 [0%]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958 Optical Raw',0
  Capabilities: pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Front Left: Playback [off]
  Front Right: Playback [off]
Simple mixer control 'PC Speaker',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Limits: Playback 0 - 15
  Mono: Playback 0 [0%] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Aux',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 31
  Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [off]
  Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Aux2',0
  Capabilities: pvolume cvolume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 100 Capture 0 - 100
  Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] Capture 0 [0%]
  Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] Capture 0 [0%]
Simple mixer control 'Analog Mix',0
  Capabilities: pvolume cvolume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 100 Capture 0 - 100
  Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] Capture 0 [0%]
  Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] Capture 0 [0%]
Simple mixer control 'Audigy Analog/Digital Output Jack',0
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [off]
Simple mixer control 'Audigy CD',0
  Capabilities: pvolume cvolume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 100 Capture 0 - 100
  Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] Capture 0 [0%]
  Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] Capture 0 [0%]
Simple mixer control 'External Amplifier',0
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control 'Front',0
  Capabilities: pvolume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 100
  Front Left: Playback 100 [100%]
  Front Right: Playback 100 [100%]
Simple mixer control 'Sigmatel 4-Speaker Stereo',0
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [off]
Simple mixer control 'Sigmatel Surround Phase Inversion Playback ',0
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [off]

eric_brissette · 05-20-2004, 11:49 PM

I've installed Kmix. Under the Advanced section, the light next to the Audigy Analog/Digital Output Jack is off.

slackMeUp · 05-20-2004, 11:57 PM

Ok run this... exactly as seen.

Code:

amixer set 'External Amplifier' off

Code:

amixer set LFE 100

Code:

amixer set Center 100

Code:

amixer set Surround 100

Code:

amixer set PCM 80

Code:

amixer set Master 100

This changes some of your mixer settings... some were set to 0% and others are at 50% which I think is low.

Now try to play something...

eric_brissette · 05-21-2004, 07:55 AM

Thanks!

I also had to turn the Audigy Analog/Digital Output Jack on.. after that was done and the mixer settings were changed, I've got my sound :-)

The help is VERY much appreciated!

thegreatgatsby · 05-26-2004, 05:07 AM

thanks!