No Sound Toshiba Satellite A215-s6814

Hi,

I have a Toshiba Satellite A215-S6814 running opensuse 10.3 x86_64. Everything works except the sound. The sound drivers load fine and the volume wheel does adjust the level in kmix. In fact, if I plug in a set of USB Logitech headphones, I can get sound. I just have no from the PC speakers.

I have tried a number of things including the modification of /etc/modprobe.d/sound with various options for snd-hda-intel

I found this link to be helpful, but so far unable to solve my problem:

For a list of model typeshttp://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=562945

To understand how to throw options without rebooting every time, I use
to check if sound card is being used
lsof /dev/snd/* /dev/dsp
if not, then
modprobe -r snd-hda-intel
modprobe snd-hda-intel mode=MODEL [and other options]

So far none of this has worked. I still think it is probably just the snd-hda-intel options... ?

I have read a few things about updating the kernel and alsa but I don't think that is an issue here

Any help much appreciated.

Since you state none of your earlier efforts worked, I recommend you start over, and start from 'scratch' by working your way through this audio troubleshooting guide:
http://en.opensuse.org/AudioTroubleshooting

If you get stumped with that, please be certain to post here the output of the diagnostic script files recommended by that site (run with your LATEST PC configuration).

Also provide the contents of your /etc/modprobe.d/sound file (so we can check the syntax you used).

I am confident this is possible. For example this thread:
http://www.suseforums.net/index.php?showto...&hl=toshiba

Since you state none of your earlier efforts worked, I recommend you start over, and start from 'scratch' by working your way through this audio troubleshooting guide:
http://en.opensuse.org/AudioTroubleshooting

If you get stumped with that, please be certain to post here the output of the diagnostic script files recommended by that site (run with your LATEST PC configuration).

Also provide the contents of your /etc/modprobe.d/sound file (so we can check the syntax you used).

I am confident this is possible. For example this thread:
http://www.suseforums.net/index.php?......&hl=toshiba
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oldcpu! It worked!

Tank you very much for your instructions. Working through the guide step by step was an excellent idea. When I got to step 2 (Yast/Alsconfig), I noticed there where 2 devices detected. I followed the delete instructions and I wound up with only 1 device to configure. I don't know how the second device gets added on detection of my card, but nevertheless there are 2 entries detected until this card is configured correctly.

The first time I did the deletion and configuration it did not work...

I had to also update to the "cutting edge" version of alsa using the repositories that they suggested. I also had to specify in the configuration options in Yast that the "model" is "toshiba"

That seems like a lot of troubleshooting, but once again, I seem to have proved to myself that pretty much anything is configurable in linux with a little bit of effort.

It worked! ....I had to also update to the "cutting edge" version of alsa using the repositories that they suggested. I also had to specify in the configuration options in Yast that the "model" is "toshiba"[/b]

Congratulations! Thanks for sharing the solution that you used on your Toshiba Satellite A215-s6814.

When I got to step 2 (Yast/Alsconfig), I noticed there where 2 devices detected.[/b]

Typically after attempting an alsaconf configuration, and then going into yast, one will see two devices, when in fact there are only one.

A note of caution, now that you have made a hand edit to /etc/modprobe.d/sound file, do not run alsaconf nor YaST > Hardware > Sound again, as that will re-write your /etc/modprobe.d/sound file. The best insurance against that possibility is to backup your /etc/modprobe.d/sound file, so that you can restore it at any time.