Can anyone tell me what Alsa codec they are using for the above sound chipset (Realtek I think)? I am running SuSE 10.3 on a Shuttle SX38P pro and have enjoyed sound for several months (only need 2.1 sound though this is billed as a 7.1 chip). Sound stopped when I was logged in as my usual username, though I hadn’t done anything to sound as such. I had been poking about with YAST for other reasons though. Other users had been working with music apps so I logged in on that account and tried removing various apps (sound was working) to no avail (sound still didn’t work when I switched user). Back in the account where sound did work I fired up YAST and went to sound. Then it stopped working.
The card listed there was an 8208011 Intel (ICH9 family) audio controller. Following the advice in the Audio Troubleshooting guide I uninstalled it but wen I went to reinstall it the closest I could find listed was an Intel ICH8 card, which would not install.
Now when I do
cat /proc/asound/version
I get
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.14 (Thu May 31 09:03:25 2007 UTC)
But when I do
cat /proc/asound/modules
I get nothing
And
cat /proc/asound/cards
gives
— no soundcards —
If anyone has this working can you let me know what modules and card you are using?
I appears you had a problem when following the openSUSE audio troubleshooting guide.
Can you provide more information on your configuration? Please, with your PC connected to the internet copy and paste the following into a gnome-terminal / konsole:
wget http://home.cfl.rr.com/infofiles/tsalsa && su -c 'bash ./tsalsa'
when prompted for a password please enter your root password. Please try to accurately answer the question on the number of plugs/jacks on your PC (for example my PC has 3 i/o plugs/jacks). When the script completes it will pass you a URL. Please post that URL here.
Also, please copy and paste the following into a gnome-terminal/konsole and post the output here.
rpm -qa | grep alsa
rpm -qa | grep pulse
rpm -q libasound2
uname -a
cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound
Thanks, oldcpu, for a rapid reply. I’m just kicking myself for not thinking that I had hosed the sound through YAST rater than blaming other members of my family for using (and NOT breaking) sound in their log-in. Also I have egg on my face with the “serves you right for using Linux” refrain. Enough snivelling…
Well the tsalsa ran and posted to tsalsa.txt - nopaste.com (beta)
I didn’t count the spdif coax and optical connections and answered that I only had 3 speakers connected to the 6 jacks as I don’t have a surround sound speaker, though I m sure it would have worked if had. I didn’t need my password (ran as root).
The rest of the output requested follows:-
For starters, it appears your mixer is configured wrong. You need to move up the PCM volume level from 0 %:
Amixer contents for card 0 [Intel] _____________________________________
amixer set 'Headphone',0 on on
amixer set 'PCM',0 0% 0%
amixer set 'Surround',0 0%,0% on
amixer set 'Center',0 0% on
amixer set 'LFE',0 0% on
amixer set 'Side',0 0%,0% on
After moving that up, try again. Maybe also check out your surround sound and your Center, LFE, Side. If that doesn’t work, we can try tune your alsa, … maybe updated if necessary.
quote >>You need to move up the PCM volume level from 0 %:<<
It works! But I swear it didn’t before (I did read about it and try it but it was always adjusted by the front speakers)… maybe it actually got fixed so the setting did matter?
Well, great support! thanks!rotfl!