No Sound...

To put it simple:
There are no sound.
The computer is a laptop (znote 3415w) with an Intel Corporation "SantaRosa"-card, and has an Intel Core 2 Duo prosessor

"lspci | grep -i audio" gives:
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)

running opensuse 10.3

To put it simple:
There are no sound.
The computer is a laptop (znote 3415w) with an Intel Corporation "SantaRosa"-card, and has an Intel Core 2 Duo prosessor

"lspci | grep -i audio" gives:
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)

running opensuse 10.3
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can you test the sound card in YaST? does kmix find your card? do you have volume set to 70% what about pcm volume?
try some of those things, sometimes the sound can get set down there without knowing about it...

To put it simple:
There are no sound.
The computer is a laptop (znote 3415w) with an Intel Corporation "SantaRosa"-card, and has an Intel Core 2 Duo prosessor
"lspci | grep -i audio" gives:
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
running opensuse 10.3[/b]

Please open a konsole and type:
bash alsa-info.sh

While this script is not optimised for openSUSE, it more or less works. And it is harmless (it only gathers sound information, and nothing else). Specifically it will gather ALSA information from the machine its run on. When run, it will post the output on pastebin.ca automatically and give you the URL where its posted. Please post the URL here where your sound information is listed.

Here is an example.. http://pastebin.ca/724516

If you are familiar with IRC chat, it might also help/be-quicker if you could flash up xchat, and join the IRC #alsa channel directly. I access #alsa via freenode and #alsa with xchat. There are some VERY knowledgeable users on that forum re: sound.

when i installed 10.3 i found that kmix didnt find my card, yet it worked when i tested it in yast, i re-installed and it worked just great...

can you test the sound card in YaST? does kmix find your card? do you have volume set to 70% what about pcm volume?
try some of those things, sometimes the sound can get set down there without knowing about it...
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Please open a konsole and type:
bash alsa-info.sh

While this script is not optimised for openSUSE, it more or less works. And it is harmless (it only gathers sound information, and nothing else). Specifically it will gather ALSA information from the machine its run on. When run, it will post the output on pastebin.ca automatically and give you the URL where its posted. Please post the URL here where your sound information is listed.

Here is an example.. http://pastebin.ca/724516

If you are familiar with IRC chat, it might also help/be-quicker if you could flash up xchat, and join the IRC #alsa channel directly. I access #alsa via freenode and #alsa with xchat. There are some VERY knowledgeable users on that forum re: sound.
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I tested the speaker test in console and through yast, and all volumes are high...
but no sound at all...

here is the result of the scipt.

I tested the speaker test in console and through yast, and all volumes are high...
but no sound at all...

here is the result of the scipt.
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Thanks ... I'm going to need to ponder this for a while. I can't see anything obviously wrong with your levels, other than 100% is too high (maybe reduce to 80%). But that won't stop your sound, only distort it.

I went to the zepto home page, and they don't provide any Linux support that I could find. :angry:

I checked for any BIOS update involving sound:
ftp://ftp.zepto.dk/Znote3414W/BIOS/Changelog.txt
but found none.

... and the driver support page has nothing for Linux. :angry: (nor XP !! ). :blink:
ftp://ftp.zepto.dk/Znote3414W/Drivers

I note that the ICH8 family is relatively new to alsa, although there was an update in alsa-1.0.11 adding a patch for Intel ICH8 in the alsa-driver. Hence your alsa 1.0.14 should include that patch.

I also note there a number of new updates for the RealTek ALC268 going from stable alsa-1.0.14 to unstable alsa-1.0.15RC1 (specifically for acer and toshiba which also use ALC268). But I don't know enough to suggest an upgrade to an alsa release candidate (it might even make things worse) ?? ... I simply do not know.

I do note that user vintagepc had a problem with ICH8 that no one was able to offer help on:
http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/index.ph...897&hl=ich8
... in the end vintagepc found his own solution (post#6):

I used the Realtek AudioPak on the Asus P5K/P5KC CD, and used the FC6 version. (4.06e or something like that)
I ONLY compiled the kernel modules package, did a make install, depmod -a, and then it loaded fine via the Yast sound options.[/b]

.... to which users deadroo and lfeagan adopted a similar approach and it appeared to work.

You could go to IRC channel #alsa (off of 'freenode") and try to get real time support. ... Or possibly attempt vintagepc's approach ... I don't know enough about this to offer anything other than speculation and some research.

Good luck and please keep us appraised as to your progress (or lack there of).

i have the same audio device and it's working now:
add _hxxp://download.opensuse.org/repositories/multimedia:/audio/openSUSE_10.3 to your repositories and update alsa (and related) packages from there; you might also need the alsa-driver-kmp-default-1.0.15.hg20071011_2.6.22.5_31-1.1.x86_64.rpm.
good luck!

still no sound...

But the files isn't updated to 15final yet...
only rc3 maybe it works after that

still no sound...[/b]

hype, you've never really made it clear as to what packages of alsa (of what specific version) you had installed for what tests. I assume your test now always consists of: speaker-test -c2 -Ddefault -twav? I do know that for some 10.3 users, when using alsa-1.0.14, in addition to needing alsa, alsa-oss, alsa-plugins, they also needed alsa-firmware and alsa-tools (and possibly alsa-utils - my memory fails me here). When you tried with alsa-1.0.14, did you have all those apps installed?

Reference 1.0.15 RC ?? , what alsa apps did you install? Presumeably alsa, alsa-driver-kmp-default, alsa-oss, alsa-tools, alsa-utils, and alsa-plugins. .... Its not clear to me exactly what each does, but you can always remove the rpms if they don't do what you want.

Also note after installing a new alsa version, you MUST check the sound levels again. A reboot may also help (to load new drivers).

updated everything... latest http://pastebin.ca/741265
but still no sound... old cpu???