Installing My Sound Card

Right since i have installed Open suse i have had numerous problems and managed to fix them after a day or 2. I have just come on to the problem of fixing my sound.

I have looked and seen that i am needing the sound codec CA0106 for a Creative Sound blaster SE. Now can some one please help me in my quest for getting this codec and installing it so my sound will work.

Thanks. If any other info is needed please feel free to ask..... im a noob to linux at the mo so be gentle.

I have looked and seen that i am needing the sound codec CA0106 for a Creative Sound blaster SE. [/b]

Chances are, you need to do 2 things:
a. install "alsa-firmware", and then reboot your PC, and test your sound. If your sound still does not work then,
b. add your regular user to group audio per this (step-6) guide:
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:AudioTroublesho...issions_Problem
Note once user is added you need to log out and log in of X windows. Possibly easiest way to do this is reboot.

If that does not work, then please run the 2 diagnostic scripts from the audio-troubleshooting guide. They will provide you two scripts after they complete. Post those URLs here. Scripts are:
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:AudioTroublesho...led_information

And also, post output of:
<span style="font-family:Courier New">rpm -qa | grep alsa
uname -a
cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound</span>

Chances are, you need to do 2 things:
a. install "alsa-firmware", and then reboot your PC, and test your sound. If your sound still does not work then,
b. add your regular user to group audio per this (step-6) guide:
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:AudioTroublesho...issions_Problem
Note once user is added you need to log out and log in of X windows. Possibly easiest way to do this is reboot.

If that does not work, then please run the 2 diagnostic scripts from the audio-troubleshooting guide. They will provide you two scripts after they complete. Post those URLs here. Scripts are:
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:AudioTroublesho...led_information

And also, post output of:
<span style="font-family:Courier New">rpm -qa | grep alsa
uname -a
cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound</span>
[/b]

I have enabled sound in permissions and still it doesnt work.

I have now done the scripts.

Script 1.
james@ViglenPc:~> wget http://hg.alsa-project.org/alsa/raw-...p/alsa-info.sh
--17:53:35-- http://hg.alsa-project.org/alsa/raw-...p/alsa-info.sh
=> `alsa-info.sh.4'
Resolving hg.alsa-project.org... 212.20.107.51
Connecting to hg.alsa-project.org|212.20.107.51|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 Script output follows
Length: 20,020 (20K) [application/x-shellscript]

100%[====================================>] 20,020 102.91K/s

17:53:35 (102.66 KB/s) - `alsa-info.sh.4' saved [20020/20020]

Script 2
james@ViglenPc:~> wget http://home.cfl.rr.com/infofiles/tsalsa
--17:54:44-- http://home.cfl.rr.com/infofiles/tsalsa
=> `tsalsa.3'
Resolving home.cfl.rr.com... 208.79.153.50
Connecting to home.cfl.rr.com|208.79.153.50|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 20,158 (20K) [text/html]

100%[====================================>] 20,158 60.96K/s

17:54:45 (60.83 KB/s) - `tsalsa.3' saved [20158/20158]


Extra outcomes to the commands you asked for.....

james@ViglenPc:~> rpm -qa | grep alsa
alsa-oss-1.0.14-23
alsa-1.0.14-31
alsa-plugins-1.0.14-41
alsa-utils-1.0.14-27
alsa-firmware-1.0.14-24
james@ViglenPc:~> uname -a
Linux ViglenPc 2.6.22.5-31-default #1 SMP 2007/09/21 22:29:00 UTC i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
james@ViglenPc:~> cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound
alias snd-card-0 snd-ca0106
alias sound-slot-0 snd-ca0106



Does this help?????????

I have enabled sound in permissions and still it doesnt work.

I have now done the scripts.

Script 1.
james@ViglenPc:~> wget http://hg.alsa-project.org/alsa/raw-...p/alsa-info.sh
--17:53:35-- http://hg.alsa-project.org/alsa/raw-...p/alsa-info.sh
=> `alsa-info.sh.4'
Resolving hg.alsa-project.org... 212.20.107.51
Connecting to hg.alsa-project.org|212.20.107.51|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 Script output follows
Length: 20,020 (20K) [application/x-shellscript]

100%[====================================>] 20,020 102.91K/s

17:53:35 (102.66 KB/s) - `alsa-info.sh.4' saved [20020/20020]

Script 2
james@ViglenPc:~> wget http://home.cfl.rr.com/infofiles/tsalsa
--17:54:44-- http://home.cfl.rr.com/infofiles/tsalsa
=> `tsalsa.3'
Resolving home.cfl.rr.com... 208.79.153.50
Connecting to home.cfl.rr.com|208.79.153.50|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 20,158 (20K) [text/html]

100%[====================================>] 20,158 60.96K/s

17:54:45 (60.83 KB/s) - `tsalsa.3' saved [20158/20158]
Extra outcomes to the commands you asked for.....

james@ViglenPc:~> rpm -qa | grep alsa
alsa-oss-1.0.14-23
alsa-1.0.14-31
alsa-plugins-1.0.14-41
alsa-utils-1.0.14-27
alsa-firmware-1.0.14-24
james@ViglenPc:~> uname -a
Linux ViglenPc 2.6.22.5-31-default #1 SMP 2007/09/21 22:29:00 UTC i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
james@ViglenPc:~> cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound
alias snd-card-0 snd-ca0106
alias sound-slot-0 snd-ca0106
Does this help?????????
[/b]

anybody?

I have now done the scripts.[/b]

You are supposed to RUN the scripts, ... when you run the scripts, they will provide an output URL.
ie, after downloading alsa-info.sh you type: bash tsalsa

Please, it appears you did not follow the instructions in the guide ! Or if you did, you failed to provide the output URL from those scripts. Note, your PC must be connected to the internet when you run the scripts.

Please, how would you propose I update that wiki so it doesn't confuse?? as clearly you were totally confused by the instructions to run the scripts.

~> rpm -qa | grep alsa[/b]

ok, thanks for that, clearly you have 1.0.14 of alsa. We need to wait until you can correctly run the scripts, and correctly provide the output URLs, before I can provide a recommendation.

~> uname -a
Linux ViglenPc 2.6.22.5-31-default #1 SMP 2007/09/21 22:29:00 UTC i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux[/b]

OK, this is good to know, in case you need to update alsa. But again, we need to see the script output.

~> cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound

alias snd-card-0 snd-ca0106
alias sound-slot-0 snd-ca0106

[/b]

OK, possibly useful, again, dependant on script output.

I have enabled sound in permissions and still it doesnt work.[/b]

I confess I am very skeptical that you did this correctly, given you failed completely to run the scripts. Did you log out and restart your PC after doing this?

I can't recall the command to check what users are assigned to a group. I think it is "group". Please type:
<span style="font-family:Courier New">cat /etc/group | grep audio</span>
and check your user is listed in that group. (I think I have that command correct).

Sorry for the confusion

Script 1

Part 1
james@ViglenPc:~> wget http://hg.alsa-project.org/alsa/raw-...p/alsa-info.sh
--19:21:00-- http://hg.alsa-project.org/alsa/raw-...p/alsa-info.sh
=> `alsa-info.sh.5'
Resolving hg.alsa-project.org... 212.20.107.51
Connecting to hg.alsa-project.org|212.20.107.51|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 Script output follows
Length: 20,020 (20K) [application/x-shellscript]

100%[====================================>] 20,020 97.75K/s

19:21:01 (97.44 KB/s) - `alsa-info.sh.5' saved [20020/20020]

Part 2
!!################################ │
│ !!ALSA Information Script v 0.4.44 │
│ !!################################ │
│ │
│ !!Script ran on: Fri May 23 19:21:56 BST 2008 │
│ │
│ │
│ !!Linux Distribution │
│ !!------------------ │
│ │
│ Welcome to openSUSE 10.3 (i586) - Kernel \r (\l). LSB_VERSION="core-2.0-no │
│ │
│ │
│ !!Kernel Information │
│ !!------------------ │
│ │
│ Kernel release: 2.6.22.5-31-default │
│ Operating System: GNU/Linux │
│ Architecture: i686 │
├────↓(+)───────────────────────────────────────── ───────────────────2%──────┤
│ < EXIT > │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────── ───────────────────────────┘

Your ALSA information is located at
Please inform the person helping you.

(i dont see an url on this part)

Script 2
Part 1
james@ViglenPc:~> wget http://home.cfl.rr.com/infofiles/tsalsa
--19:25:39-- http://home.cfl.rr.com/infofiles/tsalsa
=> `tsalsa.4'
Resolving home.cfl.rr.com... 208.79.153.50
Connecting to home.cfl.rr.com|208.79.153.50|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 20,158 (20K) [text/html]

100%[====================================>] 20,158 59.31K/s

19:25:40 (59.19 KB/s) - `tsalsa.4' saved [20158/20158]

Part 2
tsalsa: line 155: lspci: command not found
tsalsa: line 159: lspci: command not found
tsalsa: line 160: lspci: command not found
tsalsa: line 203: lspci: command not found
tsalsa: line 205: lspci: command not found
uploading /tmp/tsalsa.txt to nopaste.com
tsalsa completed in 37 seconds
paste this url in #alsa: http://nopaste.com/p/aumELoOjO
which: no lspci in (/home/james/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/usr/lib/jvm/jre/bin:/usr/lib/mit/bin:/usr/lib/mit/sbin)
NOTICE: you need to be root to run lspci; maybe rerun tsalsa as root

==============================
As far as the script page goes mate its pretty straight forward. That was just my bad

Also for the code that you wasn't 100% on this is the outcome of it.

james@ViglenPc:~> cat /etc/group | grep audio
audio:x:17:james

Hope this helps.
ps. I did restart after i gave my user permissions for the Audio.

paste this url in #alsa: http://nopaste.com/p/aumELoOjO [/b]

OK, from that I see you have installed a 32-bit openSUSE-10.3, and you have not updated your kernel with the latest security fixes, but instead have an older 2.6.22.5-31 kernel.

I think your sound should work with 1.0.14 alsa, although from the script I see it identifies your motherboard as having an SB0570. Searching for the SB0570 on the alsa web site I get:
http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php...B0570&go=Go
... and from that I see updates to the SB0570 in 1.0.15 of alsa.

So lets try updating your alsa.

Open a konsole/xterm, and after typing "su" (no quotes) and entering root password to get root permissions, please type (or better yet, copy and paste):

zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/reposit...openSUSE_10.3/ multimedia

zypper install alsa alsa-driver-kmp-default alsa-utils alsa-oss alsa-plugins alsa-tools alsa-firmware libasound2

zypper rr http://download.opensuse.org/reposit...openSUSE_10.3/

Note the above is exactly 3 lines.
Reference: http://en.opensuse.org/Alsa-update#kernel_...penSUSE-10.3.29

Restart your PC, and check your sound. Be certain to go into your mixer and check it is not blocking your sound. Also, ensure you have not made a silly hardware mistake, such as plugging audio cables into the wrong input/output, or forgetting to turn your speaker on.

For using a sound card, if you have onboard sound as well, you need to disable the onboard sound in bios.