no sound in toshiba tablet

[mikearzan]

Hello

i am absolutely new in linux opensuse and despite falling in love with it ,i really do not understand a lot of things about it ,but right now the main problem i have is that my toshiba protege m700 taplet has no sound at all and tried everything that i could, but still nothing .as soon as i boot ,i receive a message that says there is no sound because the computer went back to the default sound or something to that nature,could somebody please give me some help regarding this issue.thanks.mike

[oldcpu]

Originally Posted by mikearzan

i am absolutely new in linux opensuse and despite falling in love with it ,i really do not understand a lot of things about it ,but right now the main problem i have is that my toshiba protege m700 taplet has no sound at all

Please try working your way through the openSUSE audio troubleshooting guide: SDB:AudioTroubleshooting - openSUSE

To determine if you have sound, please copy and paste the following speaker-test into a Gnome terminal or a kde konsole:

speaker-test -c2 -l5 -twav

You should hear a female voice saying 'FRONT LEFT', 'FRONT RIGHT' five times.

If that does not work, please post here (stating your desktop (kde4, kde3, gnome) and openSUSE version) and there is a script and some rpm commands you could run to provide us more information on your PC setup, upon which a recommendation could be made.

[mikearzan]

Hello

thank you so much for your attention to this problem.I just ran that command in terminal and here is the result which i do not understand what it means.


mikearzan@linux-3sdl:~> speaker-test -c2 -l5 -twav

speaker-test 1.0.18

Playback device is default
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 2 channels
WAV file(s)
Rate set to 48000Hz (requested 48000Hz)
Buffer size range from 2048 to 8192
Period size range from 1024 to 1024
Using max buffer size 8192
Periods = 4
was set period_size = 1024
was set buffer_size = 8192
0 - Front Left
1 - Front Right
Time per period = 2.856876
0 - Front Left
1 - Front Right
Time per period = 3.007857
0 - Front Left
1 - Front Right
Time per period = 3.007993
0 - Front Left
1 - Front Right
Time per period = 3.007917
0 - Front Left
1 - Front Right
Time per period = 3.029252
mikearzan@linux-3sdl:~>

meanwhile i am trying to go thru the link you put here earlier.
BTW, i am using open suse 11.1,KDE on a toshiba M700 tablet pc .please let me know what else you need.thank you again . mike

[mikearzan]

I forgot to mention ,after running that command ,i did not hear any sound or ladies voice from the speakers .mike

[oldcpu]

Originally Posted by mikearzan

I forgot to mention ,after running that command ,i did not hear any sound or ladies voice from the speakers .mike

As I noted previous, you should hear a female voice saying 'FRONT LEFT', 'FRONT RIGHT' five times, at the same time as you see the text.

If you have no success with the audio troubleshooting guide, then I will need more information if I am to make a recommendation ... So can you provide more very detailed information so a good recommendation can be given? You can do that, with your laptop connected to the internet, by opening a gnome-terminal or a kde konsole and typing:

/usr/sbin/alsa-info.sh

that will run a diagnostic script and post the output to a web site on the Internet. It will give you the URL of the web site. Please post that URL here. I need that output to understand better your Toshiba's configuration.

Also, please copy and paste the following commands one line at a time into a gnome-terminal or a konsole and post here the output:

rpm -qa | grep alsa
rpm -qa | grep pulse
rpm -q libasound2
uname -a
cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound

I also need that output. Hopefully with that I can make a good recommendation.

[mikearzan]

The first command that i ran ,returned with the answere that says a newer version is available ,doyou wish to install it and when i clicked yes ,it returned with this







┌───────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Newer version of ALSA-Info has been │
│ found │
│ │
│ Do you wish to install it? │
├───────────────────────────────────────┤
│ < Yes > < No > │
└───────────────────────────────────────┘













cp: cannot create regular file `/usr/sbin/alsa-info.sh': Permission denied
ALSA-Info script has been updated to v 0.4.52
To view the ChangeLog, please visit git.alsa-project.org Git - alsa-driver.git/history - utils/alsa-info.sh
Please re-run the script
mikearzan@linux-3sdl:~>




and then this the result of the other four commands.

mikearzan@linux-3sdl:~> rpm -qa | grep alsa
alsa-utils-1.0.18-6.4
alsa-plugins-pulse-1.0.18-6.12
alsa-firmware-1.0.17-1.42
alsa-oss-1.0.17-1.37
alsa-plugins-1.0.18-6.12
alsa-1.0.18-8.7
mikearzan@linux-3sdl:~> rpm -qa | grep pulse
pulseaudio-module-zeroconf-0.9.12-9.6
libpulsecore4-0.9.12-9.6
pulseaudio-utils-0.9.12-9.6
pulseaudio-module-jack-0.9.12-9.6
libpulse0-0.9.12-9.6
libpulse-mainloop-glib0-0.9.12-9.6
alsa-plugins-pulse-1.0.18-6.12
pulseaudio-module-lirc-0.9.12-9.6
pulseaudio-0.9.12-9.6
pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-0.9.12-9.6
libpulse-browse0-0.9.12-9.6
pulseaudio-esound-compat-0.9.12-9.6
libxine1-pulse-1.1.15-20.8
pulseaudio-module-x11-0.9.12-9.6
mikearzan@linux-3sdl:~> rpm -q libasound2
libasound2-1.0.18-8.7
mikearzan@linux-3sdl:~> uname -a
Linux linux-3sdl 2.6.27.7-9-default #1 SMP 2008-12-04 18:10:04 +0100 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
mikearzan@linux-3sdl:~> cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound

options snd slots=snd-hda-intel
# u1Nb.QoA91lxoybA:82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
mikearzan@linux-3sdl:~>

[oldcpu]

Originally Posted by mikearzan

The first command that i ran ,returned with the answere that says a newer version is available ,doyou wish to install it and when i clicked yes ,it returned with this

... Either select "NO" you do not want to update the script, and the current (older) version of the script still would have run, or alternatively, if you want to update the script, then you need to run the script with root permissions, as that will then update the script.

Please try again.

[mikearzan]

respectfuly ,as i mentioned before ,i really don't knw much about linux and a lot of stuff is unknown for me,so,i do not know how to do anything with the "root permission ",would you please explain little more here.because as you said i tried NO for that script but it gave me alot of other options which makes more confused,i am just pulling my hair here as i go further and i realize the extent of my lack of knowledge about this operating system.

[oldcpu]

Originally Posted by mikearzan

respectfuly ,as i mentioned before ,i really don't knw much about linux and a lot of stuff is unknown for me,so,i do not know how to do anything with the "root permission ",would you please explain little more here.because as you said i tried NO for that script but it gave me alot of other options which makes more confused,i am just pulling my hair here as i go further and i realize the extent of my lack of knowledge about this operating system.

OK, every Linux install has at least one user, and that one user is the administrator, which is known as user "root". However for a number of reasons, it is not safe to run one's PC all the time with root (administrator) permissions, so every openSUSE install (and almost all Linux distributions) require one to also create at least one regular user account, where that regular user account has less permissions than the root (admin) user. One should ALWAYS login and run as the regular user, and switch to root user sparingly.

As noted, it is extremely dangerous to run as root user.

There are various ways to run the script as the root (admin) user. One easy way is to open a gnome terminal or a kde konsole, and for that terminal/konsole session ONLY, switch to root (admin) user. One can do that by typing the command to switch users, but do not specify the user you wish to switch to. If one does not specify the user to switch to, the command assumes one wishes to switch to be the administrator. One can simply do that by typing "su" (no quotes, enter root (administrator) password) and everything typed from then on in that terminal / konsole session (while it is open) will be done with root permissions. One can confirm they are ser root by typing "exit" (no quotes) which will tell you which user one is. When one no longer needs root permissions, one can then type "exit" and that will restore one to regular user permissions. If one types "exit" too many times, it will close the terminal / konsole session. Again, just type "whoami" to see which user on is. The prompt (on the left) will also change from ">" to "#" depending on one's permissions (that is a default openSUSE setup).

Another way is to send only a single command with root permissions. The way I prefer to do this is to use the 'su' command, but add an option tell the command this is to ONLY be done for one single command, and no subsequent commands. So in the case of the diagnostic script, with your pc connected to the internet please type:

su -c '/usr/sbin/alsa-info.sh'

and enter the root password when you are asked for a password. That will switch users to root ("su") for one command ( " -c " ) where that one command is everything between the quotes ( ' /usr/sbin/alsa-info.sh ' ) . This time when you run the script, if it asks to update, and you select Y, it will be able to download the script to the directory /usr/sbin, while if you run the script with regular user permissions, it is not allowed to write to that directory . Once that is complete, run the script again, but this time as a regular user.

/usr/sbin/alsa-info.sh

this is incredibly easy to do and it is second nature for anyone with a moderate amount of Linux experience.

[nordlibris]

I have the the same tablet as you, and to get sound, I fire up YAST. Start the sound module, click edit on the sound card popping up, and enter toshiba as the model. Voila you have sound. If you have the touch enabled version go to this page : OpenSuse on a Toshiba Portégé... for information on how to get it up and running. NOTE: supposedly the beta drivers include the patches to get touch running, but I have not tested them so I can't say for sure.