Opensuse 10.3 Sound Problem On Intel 8201g

Hi,

I just installed 10.3 on my new laptop hp G5050. Everything else works, even wlan but i have a weird sound problem:
When i plug in headphones, the laptop speakers still stay on but i also get sound from headphones.
It comes through both(!)

How could I disable the laptop speakers? Could't seem to find any good answers through searching.

Any ideas?

Same problem here... <_<

Same problem here... <_<
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Please try working your way through the following openSUSE audio troubleshooting guide:
http://en.opensuse.org/AudioTroubleshooting

If you get stumped anywhere in the guide, please post:

a. output URLs of the two diagnostic scripts,
http://en.opensuse.org/AudioTroubleshootin...led_information

b. output of: <span style="font-family:Courier New">rpm -qa | grep alsa</span>

c. content of your /etc/modprobe.d/sound file

Thanks for your advice, oldcpu.

I've had some success following the links you posted- I've identified the board type and codec, which is Intel ALC883/888.
I tried the steps mentioned in the guide here for the Intel HDA chipset, and after specifying various models I have control over both laptop speakers and headphone levels independently.
The channels in kmix don't appear to be labelled correctly, but having run out of time for now, and having managed to resolve the problem of using headphones with the speakers OFF I have decided to leave it like this for the time being.

The only problem now is that the "surround" volume is controlling the speaker volumes, and the "front" volume the headphones. As it's all working I'm not too fussed at this stage- there's nothing else wrong that I've noticed.
If I improve the situation with any further fiddling I'll post back, but my thankns in the meantime

I've had some success following the links you posted- I've identified the board type and codec, which is Intel ALC883/888.
I tried the steps mentioned in the guide here for the Intel HDA chipset, [/b]

Thats an excellent link.

A few weeks back I exchanged emails with the SuSE-GmbH author of that link, and after comparing notes, we decided not to merge our two guides. But we agreed I would provide a link in the "audio troubleshooting guide" that I wrote, linking his as a good detailed guide to follow for the Intel-HDA.

The channels in kmix don't appear to be labelled correctly, ... The only problem now is that the "surround" volume is controlling the speaker volumes, and the "front" volume the headphones. [/b]

There is a lot of guidance in the ALSA-Configuration.txt file for the alsa 1.0.16 driver, where that file is a documentation file that comes with the tarball for alsa-driver 1.0.16 (and may also come with the rpm). There are settings that one can set to reverse these (such as the AC97 Quirk Option "swap_surround" (to Swap master and surround controls) and the AC97 Quirk Option "swap_hp" (to Swap headphone and master controls)).

To make it easier for you, I pasted a copy of the ALSA-Configuration.txt file (for alsa-1.0.16) here:
http://pastebin.ca/953968
Take a look at the AC97 Quirk section (toward the end).

One can also change settings elsewhere. Sometimes the sound guru's on IRC #alsa can provide good guidance here.

I confess I have not delved into this myself, so other than suggest you try (via trial and error) the ideas from the ALSA-Configuration.txt file, or suggest you obtain help in IRC #alsa, I can't offer much advice.

If you do decide to try different AC97 Quirk options (to fix the volume controls being swapped) I can provide suggestions for the syntax to use in your /etc/modprobe.d/sound file. When, of course, you get the time.

Good luck.

Thank you so much. This is very useful info indeed - you're a hero.
I'll have a go when I have some time for tweakery, and report any success here in case it helps anyone else, after all, a lot of my previous issues have been resolved by searching this forum, and indeed your replies!

Thanks for your advice, oldcpu.

I've had some success following the links you posted- I've identified the board type and codec, which is Intel ALC883/888.
I tried the steps mentioned in the guide here for the Intel HDA chipset, and after specifying various models I have control over both laptop speakers and headphone levels independently.
The channels in kmix don't appear to be labelled correctly, but having run out of time for now, and having managed to resolve the problem of using headphones with the speakers OFF I have decided to leave it like this for the time being.

The only problem now is that the "surround" volume is controlling the speaker volumes, and the "front" volume the headphones. As it's all working I'm not too fussed at this stage- there's nothing else wrong that I've noticed.
If I improve the situation with any further fiddling I'll post back, but my thankns in the meantime
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Thanks a lot to both of you. I was facing the same problem for some time (after i recently switched to linux from windows ). I identified that my codec is Conexant CX20549 (Venice) using the command

head -n 1 /proc/asound/card0/codec#0
or 
head -n 1 /proc/asound/card0/codec*

Then checked /usr/src/LINUX-Distribution/Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt, which has only the following 2 entries for Conexant

Conexant 5045
**********laptop********Laptop config
**********test**********for testing/debugging purpose, almost all controls
************************can be adjusted.**Appearing only when compiled with
************************$CONFIG_SND_DEBUG=y

********Conexant 5047
**********laptop********Basic Laptop config
**********laptop-hp**** Laptop config for some HP models (subdevice 30A5)
**********laptop-eapd** Laptop config with EAPD support
**********test**********for testing/debugging purpose, almost all controls
************************can be adjusted.**Appearing only when compiled with
************************$CONFIG_SND_DEBUG=y

Finally changed the file /etc/modprobe.d/sound to the following by adding model=laptop, which I took from Conexant 5045 as seen above. The output of my /etc/modprobe.d/sound

options snd-hda-intel model=laptop enable=1 index=0
# M71A.k5JPLyF5+X5:MCP67 High Definition Audio
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel

So in this case my codec Conexant CX20549 (Venice) was renamed to Conexant 5045 in the file /usr/src/LINUX-Distribution/Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt. Now the laptop speakers SWITCH OFF when I use headphone.
I just posted this (with redundant information, which can be found in the links provided by Oldcpu & Volpe) for any other new comer who has the same codec(Conexant CX20549), so that he/she can fix the reading this one.

Thanks once again to both Oldcpu & volpe.

Then checked /usr/src/LINUX-Distribution/Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt, which has only the following 2 entries for Conexant

Conexant 5045
**********laptop********Laptop config
**********test**********for testing/debugging purpose, almost all controls
************************can be adjusted.**Appearing only when compiled with
************************$CONFIG_SND_DEBUG=y

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Thats true for alsa 1.0.14. The latest alsa 1.0.16 has more options.

Finally changed the file /etc/modprobe.d/sound to the following by adding model=laptop, which I took from Conexant 5045 as seen above. The output of my /etc/modprobe.d/sound

options snd-hda-intel model=laptop enable=1 index=0
# M71A.k5JPLyF5+X5:MCP67 High Definition Audio
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel

... Now the laptop speakers SWITCH OFF when I use headphone. [/b]

Thanks for sharing your solution.

Congratulations on sorting your problem.

Thats true for alsa 1.0.14. The latest alsa 1.0.16 has more options.
Thanks for sharing your solution.
Congratulations on sorting your problem.
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Took the words out of my mouth- glad you got your problem fixed, and you shared it for others. It put a smile on my face

Hi,
I have followed your instructions and any other I was able to find, but I still didn't solve my problem.
I got the latest ALSA-Configuration.txt, installed kernel-source.rpm, updated and installled: alsa, alsa-driver-kmp-default, alsa-utils, alsa-tools, and alsa-firmware.

With head -n 1 /proc/asound/card0/codec* I get:
==> /proc/asound/card0/codec#0 <==
Codec: Motorola Si3054

==> /proc/asound/card0/codec#1 <==
Codec: Realtek ALC883

Which is a bit strange, since Motorola is my modem. Still I hoped that it will use ALC883. I searched for it in ALSA-Configuration.txt and tried every option that is under ALC883/888. I edited the sound in modprobe.d to use every one of these, but I still have output on both laptop speakers and headphones. After every change, I have restarted sound system and started kmix.
Does anyone have the solution for this one? Two days I'm trying to figure this one out, but without success.

ALC883/888
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