Speakers not recognized

[guitarhero183]

I am running OpenSuse 11.1 KDE 4.1 and I am having trouble getting my speakers to work. When I install OpenSuse the speakers worked fine but now the computer does not recognize any speakers. I pretty new with linux so can someone please help me out?

[yu210148]

guitarhero183 wrote:

>
> I am running OpenSuse 11.1 KDE 4.1 and I am having trouble getting my
> speakers to work. When I install OpenSuse the speakers worked fine but
> now the computer does not recognize any speakers. I pretty new with
> linux so can someone please help me out?
>
>
Hiya,

Speakers or sound card? What (if anything) displays in
yast2-->Hardware-->Sound?

--
kev.

[guitarhero183]

I will not be able to find out now since I now have another problem. Plasma Dashboard ends up crashing right when I log into my account. I have to try and fix this first since now when I log in, I can only see a white screen.

[yu210148]

guitarhero183 wrote:

>
> I will not be able to find out now since I now have another problem.
> Plasma Dashboard ends up crashing right when I log into my account. I
> have to try and fix this first since now when I log in, I can only see a
> white screen.
>
>
Yuck, try selecting a different session type (gnome? kde3?) from the login
screen?

--
kev.

[guitarhero183]

I fixed the Plasma Workspace problem but now when I reinstall the sound card drivers, the sound works at first but after a short amount of time, the volume gets lower and lower until there is no more sound. The sound card models listed is "MCP51 High Definition Audio."

[yu210148]

guitarhero183 wrote:

>
> I fixed the Plasma Workspace problem but now when I reinstall the sound
> card drivers, the sound works at first but after a short amount of time,
> the volume gets lower and lower until there is no more sound. The sound
> card models listed is "MCP51 High Definition Audio."
>
>
Wow! Awesome, that's an odd one. Question: does the volume slider on any of
the mixer's channels decline as well? In other words is the volume decline
being registered by the OS?

--
kev.

[guitarhero183]

The slider does not move. Also, I noticed when I boot OpenSuse, a window at the top of the screen appears. It says that my sound device does not work and the sound was switched to default.

[yu210148]

guitarhero183 wrote:

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> The slider does not move. Also, I noticed when I boot OpenSuse, a window
> at the top of the screen appears. It says that my sound device does not
> work and the sound was switched to default.
>
>
Humm. Okay, trying to pin down the issue here. If you fire up konsole and
do:

su
<enter root password>
restart alsasound

Does the sound come back? It may fade again but does it come back?

--
kev.

[guitarhero183]

There is no restart command in konsole.
Also, I was able to get the alsa information.
Here is the link to the web page.

http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=c5...a0377e32901cc6

[guitarhero183]

I finally got the problem fixed. I just followed the
instructions here.

SDB:Intel-HDA sound problems - openSUSE

Thanks for trying to help though.