Sound Card Not Working?

yeah so my sound card is active when my system starts up, and then as I continue to log onto my computer it's like the driver itself completely shuts down. and then all my sound card is shut off. I've followed all the suse instructions as far as their help site goes, and ran all the alsa software i can, and still nothing, what the dilio? so if someone could help me please give me an idea or something!

my sound card is active when my system starts up[/b]

What is your criteria for saying it is active?

and then as I continue to log onto my computer it's like the driver itself completely shuts down. and then all my sound card is shut off. [/b]

What test did you do you to see if you have any sound at this point? If a KDE user, did you check your settings in kmix? If Gnome user did you check your settings in alsamixer?

Did you try the openSUSE audio troubleshooting guide?
http://en.opensuse.org/AudioTroubleshooting

Edit: Before I forget, WELCOME to suseforums.net

yes I already did all of those trouble shooting guides, and when my computer starts up my icon on my laptop is blue and then when it does the actual log, I can hear the sound card completely shout down. i'm not sure how to explain what the sound is for that, but I know it's the sound card shutting down. and my icon on my laptop turns orange which is a signification that the sound shuts off. I have KDE and I have tried all the updates I can find. my laptop origonally came with windows vista, which used a realtek high definition audio driver. should I just try re-installing SUSE and see if that makes any changes, it didn't say anything went wrong, but when i installed it I was a little side-tracked for at the moment.

should I just try re-installing SUSE and see if that makes any changes,[/b]

No, IMHO thats not necessary.

Instead, run the two scripts from the audio troubleshooting guide, and post the output URL that each provides:
http://en.opensuse.org/AudioTroubleshootin...led_information

Also, please post the output of:
<span style="font-family:Courier New">cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound</span>

Hey.....I am facing a similar problem so I am givin u what I got on running those Scripts and commands.......

First Script Output
http://pastebin.ca/1020339

Second script output

http://nopaste.com/p/ap2JLEeRF

Output of rpm -qa | grep alsa

alsa-utils-1.0.14-27
alsa-1.0.14-31
alsa-oss-1.0.14-23
alsa-plugins-1.0.14-41

uname -a

Linux linux-xpq1 2.6.22.5-31-default #1 SMP 2007/09/21 22:29:00 UTC i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound

options snd-hda-intel enable=1 index=0
# u1Nb.l7q1YApzaEE:82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel

Hey.....I am facing a similar problem so I am givin u what I got on running those Scripts and commands.......
First Script Output
http://pastebin.ca/1020339
Second script output
http://nopaste.com/p/ap2JLEeRF[/b]

Thanks. This shows you have an ALC268 in your HP dv6516tx. Typically an ALC268 needs at least alsa-1.0.15 and version 1.0.16 is even better. Your openSUSE comes with alsa 1.0.14. Clearly you need to update your alsa.

uname -a
Linux linux-xpq1 2.6.22.5-31-default #1 SMP 2007/09/21 22:29:00 UTC i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux[/b]

OK, this shows you have not updated your kernel to the latest kernel. So you need to install an updated alsa that is compatible with your older kernel.

With your PC connected to the internet, open an xterm/konsole, type "su" (no quotes, and enter root password), and then copy and paste the following 3 lines to add a temporary multimedia repos, update your alsa, and then remove the repos:

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

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

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

(note the above code is exactly 3 separate lines)

After successful execution of the above 3 lines of code, restart your PC, and test your sound.

cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound
options snd-hda-intel enable=1 index=0
# u1Nb.l7q1YApzaEE:82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel[/b]

Thanks, if the above alsa update is insufficient, then we will edit this file to optimise it for your HP laptop (to take advantage of the alsa update).

Hey Thanks......
This solved my problem......Pls also tell me from where I could update my Kernel.

This solved my problem[/b]

CONGRATULATIONS !

Pls also tell me from where I could update my Kernel.[/b]

Follow the advice here to set up your repositories for openSUSE-10.3:
http://opensuse-community.org/Repositories/10.3

With that in place, it should not be long before SuSE updater advises you of a kernel update.

Note when you update your kernel, your sound will likely be broken, and you will have to update your alsa version to a version compatible with the updated kernel. The zypper commands for that are different than the one's I gave above, and instead match the commands in the openSUSE audio troubleshooting guide:
http://en.opensuse.org/AudioTroubleshootin...ng_alsa_via_rpm

Also, when you update your kernel, in addition to your sound, other things could be broken, such as any custom nvidia/ati graphic driver, wireless, webcam, virtual-box, etc .... So be prepared to fix those if and when they get broken.

, so when I enter the first script I get,
rpm -qa|grep alsa
alsa-oss-1.0.14-23
alsa-plugins-1.0.14-14
alsa-utils-1.0.14-27
alsa-1.0.14-31.2
alsa-firmware-1.0.14-24
alsa-devel-1.0.14-31.2

uname -a
linux chris 2.6.22.17-0.1-default #1 SMP 2008/02/10 20:01:04 UTC i686 I386 GNU/linux

cat/etc/modeporbe.d/sound
-bash cat/etc/modeprobe.d/sound


also real quick, when i run the first and second scripts on that troubleshooting guide, not to sound like an idiot, but do you want to know in particular to what shows up? or do you want me to just post everything and you can just make sense of it i guess...?

and to top it all off. of the 3 above links the only one that worked was the middle one :-(