AsusTEk/Intel sound card, Open SUse 10.2 No sound

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1

Hello,

I am administering one OpenSuse 10.2 machine and I tried the several tests to check what is the problem with sound.
When I do
rpm -qa --last | grep alsa

I get this output:

alsa-tools-gui-1.0.14-0.pm.0 Sun 06 Jul 2008 04:55:34 PM CEST
alsa-tools-1.0.14-0.pm.0 Sun 06 Jul 2008 04:55:29 PM CEST
alsa-firmware-1.0.14-0.pm.0 Sun 06 Jul 2008 04:55:20 PM CEST
java-1_5_0-sun-alsa-1.5.0_update14-0.3 Sun 06 Jul 2008 04:55:00 PM CEST
alsa-plugins-1.0.12-30 Sun 06 Jul 2008 04:54:59 PM CEST
alsa-1.0.14a-0.pm.7 Sun 06 Jul 2008 04:53:36 PM CEST

When I do lsmod:
lsmod | grep snd
I get this output:
snd 73476 0
soundcore 26080 1 snd

With alsa script for checkin alsa I got this:

wget -O alsa-info.sh http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-info.sh && bash alsa-info.sh
general pastebin - tigerspirit - post number 1063858

When I have done:
su -c ‘wget -O tsalsa wget http://home.cfl.rr.com/infofiles/tsalsa && bash tsalsa’

I got output on:

tsalsa.txt - nopaste.com (beta)

please advise.

vedran

2

It does not appear your alsa is being completely reported.

*# Driver version: 1.0.12rc1

Library version: 1.0.9

Utilities version: 1.0.14*

Have you rebooted since installing/updating to those alsa versions noted in the rpm command? … If you have rebooted since updating, then it is clear your sound card is not detected by alsa. Perhaps the quickest way to proceed os for you to update you alsa. Please with your PC connected to the internet, copy and paste and execute the following commands (one line at a time in the exact sequence) into an xterm/konsole (with root permissions):

zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/multimedia:/audio/openSUSE_10.2/ multimedia 

zypper install alsa alsa-utils alsa-tools alsa-tools-gui alsa-firmware libasound2

zypper rr multimedia

zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/multimedia:/audio:/KMP/openSUSE_10.2/ multimedia

zypper install alsa-driver-kmp-bigsmp

zypper rr multimedia

Please then reboot, and test/configure your sound.

I recommend the following as a test (copy and paste into an xterm/konsole)
speaker-test -Dplug:front -c2 -l5 -twav

Note, the above is for a 2.6.18.2-34-bigsmp kernel. If you were to update to the kernel 2.6.18.8_0-default #1 BIG SMP, then your sound will be broken again.

3

Hello,

When I yype
zypper ar Index of /repositories/multimedia:/audio/openSUSE_10.2 multimedia
it says that ar is aunknown command. please advise.

thanks,

vedran

4

That is likely either because you don’t have root permissions, or because are typing it wrong. Please copy and paste instead, so that you don’t make a mistake.

zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/multimedia:/audio/openSUSE_10.2/ multimedia

Ensure your PC is connected to the internet. Also ensure you have root permissions in the xterm/konsole first.

5

… I’ve been pondering this … another possibility is zypper for 10.2 works differently than zypper for 10.3 and 11.0. … You could also try the following:

Please with your PC connected to the internet, copy and paste and execute the following commands (one line at a time in the exact sequence) into an xterm/konsole (with root permissions):

zypper sa http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/multimedia:/audio/openSUSE_10.2/ multimedia 

zypper install alsa alsa-utils alsa-tools alsa-tools-gui alsa-firmware libasound2

zypper sd multimedia

zypper sa http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/multimedia:/audio:/KMP/openSUSE_10.2/ multimedia

zypper install alsa-driver-kmp-bigsmp

zypper sd multimedia

Please then reboot, and test/configure your sound.

6

Yes, zypper in opensuse 10.2 works in adiffernt ways, since it doe snot have option ar at all.

I will check with what you proposed and let you know.

Best wishes,

vedran

7

I have done with zypper as you suggested and everything works well.

Thanks,

veki

8

Thanks for sharing your solution. I updated the openSUSE audio troubleshooting guide accordingly, with that correction to the zypper command. Thanks for verifying the correction. :slight_smile:

9

That is how community works :slight_smile:

veki