Realtek Hi Definition Audio With Suse 10.3

If you have installed the latest alsa, alsa firmware and kernel module (all correct for your kernel), have you tried entering "acer" (without quotes) in the advanced sound card options in Yast? Got things going here...

Could you run the "rpm -qa | grep alsa" again, to confirm you now have the correct alsa rpms installed.

This suggest the alsa module may still not be loading, ...

If you still do not have sound, can you post the output URL provided by the two diagnostic scripts:
http://en.opensuse.org/AudioTroubleshootin...led_information
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first script http://pastebin.ca/979897

second script http://nopaste.com/p/aj2rmLIInb

@watagan - where exactky I have to put "acer"?

first script http://pastebin.ca/979897
second script http://nopaste.com/p/aj2rmLIInb[/b]

scanman? Did you take the time to look at the script outputs yourself? According to those scripts you have not updated alsa! :blink:

Please, update alsa per the zypper commands in the audio troubleshooting guide:
http://en.opensuse.org/AudioTroubleshootin...ng_alsa_via_rpm

If the guide is puzzling, and too difficult to read, please advise. I would like to improve it.

I don't mind walking you through the audio troubleshooting guide (if you get stumped), but your question asking where you put a model option, and your complete failure to update alsa according to the script outputs, has me thinking you never bothered to read the guide.

I want to help, but I need your help too.

As oldcpu says this is futile unless you have the latest alsa, alsa firmware and kernel module installed. You can do the acer thing from Yast, but the entry is in /etc/modprobe.d/sound if you wish to edit the config file directly, it should look something like:

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

Regards...

scanman? Did you take the time to look at the script outputs yourself? According to those scripts you have not updated alsa! :blink:

Please, update alsa per the zypper commands in the audio troubleshooting guide:
http://en.opensuse.org/AudioTroubleshootin...ng_alsa_via_rpm

If the guide is puzzling, and too difficult to read, please advise. I would like to improve it.

I don't mind walking you through the audio troubleshooting guide (if you get stumped), but your question asking where you put a model option, and your complete failure to update alsa according to the script outputs, has me thinking you never bothered to read the guide.

I want to help, but I need your help too.
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I apologize for my mistake. I am really new with linux and I now nearly nothing. Actually I did the described procedure, but probably I missed "multimedia-audio" in
zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/...SE_10.3_Update/ multimedia-audio

on the next stroke
zypper install alsa alsa-driver-kmp-default alsa-utils alsa-tools alsa-firmware
I got following

linux-5uc2:/home/sp # zypper install alsa alsa-driver-kmp-default alsa-utils alsa-tools alsa-firmware
* Reading repository 'NVIDIA Repository' cache
* Reading repository 'openSUSE-10.3-OSS-KDE 10.3' cache
* Reading repository 'Main Repository (NON-OSS)' cache
* Reading repository 'openSUSE BuildService - Drivers for Wireless LAN' cache
* Reading repository 'Packman Repository' cache
* Reading repository 'Main Repository (OSS)' cache
* Reading repository 'Main Update Repository' cache
* Reading installed packages [100%]

skipping package 'alsa-driver-kmp-default' (already installed)

The following packages are going to be downgraded:
**alsa-utils alsa-tools alsa-firmware alsa

The following package is going to be REMOVED:
**alsa-tools-devel

Overall download size: 5.1 M. After the operation, 500.9 K will be freed.
Continue? [yes/no]: y
* Removing alsa-tools-devel-1.0.16.hg20080122-7.16 [100%]
Downloading package alsa-utils-1.0.14-27.i586, 876.9 K (1.6 M unpacked)

Failed to mount cd:///?devices=/dev/sr0 on /var/adm/mount/AP_0x00000001: No medium found (mount: No medium found)
Please insert media [] # 1 and type 'y' to continue or 'n' to cancel the operation. [yes/no]: y

Failed to mount cd:///?devices=/dev/sr0 on /var/adm/mount/AP_0x00000001: No medium found (mount: No medium found)
Please insert media [] # 1 and type 'y' to continue or 'n' to cancel the operation. [yes/no]: y

Hi,
I also got HP notebook with the same sound card. What I did, to make it work, was downloading the alsa drivers from the following page:
http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Main_Page
Hope, it'll help you either

@oldcpu
I decided to start from the begining:

linux-5uc2:/home/sp #**rpm -q alsa alsa-utils alsa-firmware
alsa-1.0.16.hg20080323-1.1
alsa-utils-1.0.16.hg20080315-1.3
alsa-firmware-1.0.16.hg20080314-1.1
linux-5uc2:/home/sp # speaker-test -c2 -Ddefault -twav
speaker-test: error while loading shared libraries: libasound.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
linux-5uc2:/home/sp #

when I try to update it become like downgrading to older version. Now I think that missing libsound.so.2 is a problem


@watagan
I have logged in as root and opened the file
/etc/modprobe.d/sound

it was blank and i paste this

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

after that in yast it looks like it is already configured, thanks

@bert
It looks to me that I have already installed the last version of alsa. The card is found ad looks configured already. I have trouble with something missing libasound.so.2

I am really new with linux and I now nearly nothing. Actually I did the described procedure, but probably I missed "multimedia-audio" in
[code]zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/reposit...E_10.3_Update/ multimedia-audio

OK, its useful to have an accurate assessment of one's level of experience.**It helps speed things up.

zypper install alsa alsa-driver-kmp-default alsa-utils alsa-tools alsa-firmware
I got following

linux-5uc2:/home/sp # zypper install alsa alsa-driver-kmp-default alsa-utils alsa-tools alsa-firmware
* Reading repository 'NVIDIA Repository' cache
* Reading repository 'openSUSE-10.3-OSS-KDE 10.3' cache
* Reading repository 'Main Repository (NON-OSS)' cache
* Reading repository 'openSUSE BuildService - Drivers for Wireless LAN' cache
* Reading repository 'Packman Repository' cache
* Reading repository 'Main Repository (OSS)' cache
* Reading repository 'Main Update Repository' cache
* Reading installed packages [100%]

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I don't see the multimedia package in that "reading repository list". That makes me think you do not have the repository in place when you ran the zypper commands.

skipping package 'alsa-driver-kmp-default' (already installed)

The following packages are going to be downgraded:
**alsa-utils alsa-tools alsa-firmware alsa

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OK, this is bad news. ... Downgrading is NOT what you want to do. This also makes me think you did not have the repository in place when you ran the zypper commands.

I am going away on vacation in 3 days (away for weeks), and its likely I will have poor to no internet access, so you may wish to keep that in mind in terms of the turn around time to fix this.

Now, some instructions ... I have no idea what you have done. I suspect your configuration is a mess. You make no mention of removing the repository with the "zypper rr <url>" that the audio troubleshooting guide gives, so I don't know if the repository is installed, or not installed. So its important you try to understand what you are doing, and what is failing, so that you can give accurate information, and not incomplete bits and pieces.

I don't know where you are at right now. But it looks like you have inappropriately down graded packages.

To tell what repositories you have setup in yast/zypper you can always type:
<span style="font-family:Courier New">cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound</span>
d. run the scripts from the audio troubleshooting guide (again) and post their output URL here. Script instructions are here:
http://en.opensuse.org/AudioTroubleshootin...led_information

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

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This could be the /etc/modprobe.d/sound file you need, but it won't help you if your alsa is messed up. Please note that after doing such an edit (to the /etc/modprobe.d/sound file) you need to restart alsa, either by rebooting, or by typing in a konsole with root permissions: rcalsasound restart

after that in yast it looks like it is already configured, [/b]

You have to be careful with "yast > hardware > sound". It can wipe out your custom settings in /etc/modprobe.d/sound if you are not careful.

It looks to me that I have already installed the last version of alsa. The card is found ad looks configured already.[/b]

From what I can see your alsa is messed up. I still think you should follow my advice with the zypper command update of alsa.

Updating your /etc/modprobe.d/sound file is something you can try at a later stage.

This is ALL documented in the audio troubleshooting guide.

Maybe YOU can help me. What is wrong with the guide?? Why is it so difficult to follow ??

@oldcpu

I think that we were typing our last messages in the same time. I have followed your instructions step by step here is the result(i have rebooted) via yast the card looks not configured but I did not change any settings, so I hope I did not mess nothing

sp@linux-5uc2:~> su
Password:
linux-5uc2:/home/sp #**rpm -q alsa alsa-utils alsa-firmware
alsa-1.0.16.hg20080323-1.1
alsa-utils-1.0.16.hg20080315-1.3
alsa-firmware-1.0.16.hg20080314-1.1
linux-5uc2:/home/sp # speaker-test -c2 -Ddefault -twav
speaker-test: error while loading shared libraries: libasound.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
linux-5uc2:/home/sp # uname -a
Linux linux-5uc2 2.6.22.17-0.1-default #1 SMP 2008/02/10 20:01:04 UTC i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
linux-5uc2:/home/sp # zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/reposit...edia-audio-new
* Adding repository 'multimedia-audio-new'
Repository 'multimedia-audio-new' successfully added:
Enabled: Yes
Autorefresh: Yes
URL: http://download.opensuse.org/reposit...E_10.3_Update/
linux-5uc2:/home/sp # zypper install alsa alsa-driver-kmp-default alsa-utils alsa-tools alsa-firmware
Refreshing 'multimedia-audio-new'
* Building repository 'multimedia-audio-new' cache
* Reading repository 'NVIDIA Repository' cache
* Reading repository 'openSUSE-10.3-OSS-KDE 10.3' cache
* Reading repository 'multimedia-audio-new' cache
* Reading repository 'Main Repository (NON-OSS)' cache
* Reading repository 'openSUSE BuildService - Drivers for Wireless LAN' cache
* Reading repository 'Packman Repository' cache
* Reading repository 'Main Repository (OSS)' cache
* Reading repository 'Main Update Repository' cache
* Reading installed packages [100%]

skipping package 'alsa' (already installed)
skipping package 'alsa-driver-kmp-default' (already installed)
skipping package 'alsa-utils' (already installed)
skipping package 'alsa-tools' (already installed)
skipping package 'alsa-firmware' (already installed)
Nothing to do.
linux-5uc2:/home/sp # zypper rr http://download.opensuse.org/reposit...E_10.3_Update/
* Cleaning repository 'multimedia-audio-new' cache
* Removing repository 'multimedia-audio-new'
Repository multimedia-audio-new has been removed.
linux-5uc2:/home/sp #**


p@linux-5uc2:~> su
Password:
linux-5uc2:/home/sp # alsaconf

****** 

 Now ALSA is ready to use.
 For adjustment of volumes, use your favorite mixer.

 Have a lot of fun!


linux-5uc2:/home/sp #

linux-5uc2:/home/sp # uname -a
Linux linux-5uc2 2.6.22.17-0.1-default #1 SMP 2008/02/10 20:01:04 UTC i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

linux-5uc2:/home/sp # cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
alias sound-slot-0 snd-hda-intel

first script alsa-info returns http://pastebin.ca/982704
tsalsa returns** http://nopaste.com/p/a3Yk2AbsP

in the first script looks to me that library is older version

"Driver version: 1.0.16
Library version: 1.0.14a"

Codec: Realtek ALC268

and one more thing - so far I do not have mixer

and yet after running the tsalsa
amixer: error while loading shared libraries: libasound.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory