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Old 12-04-2005, 05:38 AM   #1
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Problems getting nforce2 sound to work with Suse 10.0


Hi,

I'm having trouble getting sound to work on Suse 10.0. I'm running a Soundstorm audio chipset (nForce2) on an Abit NF7-S v2.0. I downloaded the drivers from the nVidia website and installed them as specified in the installation notes, but most applications I try cannot seem to find the device. In the YaST2 sound section I can see 2 entries - one is labelled as "Sound Card" apparently using the nvsound driver as it should, but doesn't seem to have a number associated with it. The second device listed is "nForce2 AC97 Audio Controler (MCP)" and according to YaST2 is "not configured". I'm a complete Linux noob but I wouldn't have thought 2 devices should be listed there - especially as I only have one sound chip.

Here is what I get from /sbin/lspci:-

Code:
linux:/home/chris # /sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (different version?) (rev c1
)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 1 (rev c1)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 4 (rev c1)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 3 (rev c1)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 2 (rev c1)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 5 (rev c1)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 ISA Bridge (rev a4)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation nForce2 SMBus (MCP) (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)
00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Ethernet Controller (rev                                                                             a1)
00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce Audio Processing                                                                             Unit (rev a2)
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AC97 Audio Contr                                                                            oler (MCP) (rev a1)
00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 External PCI Bridge (rev a3)
00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce2 IDE (rev a2)
00:0d.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): nVidia Corporation nForce2 FireWire (IEEE 1394) Co                                                                            ntroller (rev a3)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (rev c1)
01:06.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905 100BaseTX [Boomerang]
01:0b.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3112 [SATALink/SATARaid] Se                                                                            rial ATA Controller (rev 02)
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV40 [GeForce 6800] (rev a                                                                            1)
And from uname -r :-

Code:
linux:/home/chris # uname -r
2.6.13-15-default
Any help would be greatly appreciated - I must have spent about a week messing around trying to get this thing working, but no luck. Please bear in mind this is my first real attempt at installing Linux on my machine, so an idiot's guide would be appreciated.

TIA
 
Old 12-05-2005, 04:06 PM   #2
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Still having trouble with this, does anyone have an idea what I might have to do? I'm wondering if it's something to do with the fact that my soundcard has apparently not been assigned a number.

What is really frustrating is that I managed to get at least some sound out of it at one point, albeit only in Firefox which was strange - in all other apps it wasn't detected. However, it stopped working again and I can't for the life in me remember what happened before it stopped...
 
Old 12-22-2005, 02:16 PM   #3
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Ok, I have now managed to get some form of sound working by configuring the system to use the default snd-intel8x0 driver that comes with SUSE 10.0. The problem is that programs that use ALSA cannot find the soundcard - they throw an error complaining that the "default" device cannot be found.

My current /etc/modprobe.d/sound looks like this:-

Code:
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0
Here is an example of what happens when programs try to use ALSA for sound. In RhythmBox Music Player for instance, trying to play a song results in this error:-

ALSA device "Default" does not exist

Another example is Totem Movie Player. When started, it produces the following error:-

Totem could not startup.

The requested audio output was not found. Please select another audio output in the Multimedia Systems Selector


I created a ".asoundrc" file in root as per the alsa-project website instructions with the following in it, but still nothing:-

Code:
pcm.!default {
	type hw
	card 0
	}

	ctl.!default {
	type hw           
	card 0
        }
I noticed none of my system sounds through GNOME work either, so far only Firefox and the games that come with SUSE 10.0 have sound.

I'm only guessing this is an ALSA problem, but I could be [read: am probably] completely wrong.

Please, please, please help me with this one! I beg of you! Help restore my sanity for Christmas!!!
 
Old 12-23-2005, 02:59 AM   #4
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Ok, I've murdered 3 people now and I'll continue to do so until I get some sort of reply.

You can stop this carnage - YOU CAN MAKE THE KILLING STOP.
 
  


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