I can rearrange the devices from the audio (Kmixer) icon and select which work, but the default and all the HDMI ones don’t work.
> HDA Intel PCH (ALC269VC Analog)
> HDA Intel PCH, ALC269VC Analog (DefaultAudio Device)
X HDA Intel MID, HDMI 0 (HDMI Audio Output)
X HDA Intel MID, HDMI 1 (HDMI Audio Output)
X HDA Intel MID, HDMI 2 (HDMI Audio Output)
X Default
After rearranging the devices, I can get Amarok to work.
Still, the initial “welcome” tune upon sign-in isn’t produced.
Youtube fails.
VMWare Player cannot connect to the device.
I tried to disconnect & connect drivers through YaST. It works /sometimes/. I see two Intel devices with ‘snd-hda-intel’ drivers.
If I delete and configure the drivers in the right way, I will get an Intel error message. Once I get that, that channel works but not the other one. The configuration that has worked to cause the error is setting power save to any number of seconds. If I get a device-insert error, I have to start all over. Also, this funny configuration sometimes gets reset between reboots.
I have been able to get sound from all three (above) apps, but it now doesn’t work at all, so I know it’s possible to get it to work.
Do you have ‘flash-player’ installed so to play YouTube videos ?
Do you have ‘pavucontrol’ installed so as to tune pulse audio with VMWare Player ?
If using KDE, that is disabled by default. One needs to go into the KDE settings to change that.
This does not read to be a driver problem, but rather it appears you may be missing some applications and your pulse audio may not be tuned and your desktop may not be tuned. If you mess too much with your audio drivers you could break the sound completely if you do not understand what you are doing.
If we assume a good install and if audio does not work, then it appears the hardware audio codec was identified as an ALC269VC. It is possible to try to tune that by forcing an audio configuration upon the start of the alsa driver. There is a list in the alsa documentation for the alc269, which is this:
ALC269/270/275/276/28x/29x
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laptop-amic Laptops with analog-mic input
laptop-dmic Laptops with digital-mic input
alc269-dmic Enable ALC269(VA) digital mic workaround
alc271-dmic Enable ALC271X digital mic workaround
inv-dmic Inverted internal mic workaround
lenovo-dock Enables docking station I/O for some Lenovos
dell-headset-multi Headset jack, which can also be used as mic-in
dell-headset-dock Headset jack (without mic-in), and also dock I/O
while the labels do not suggest so, its possible one of those (even if it says lenovo, or dell) may work better with your PC.
I recommend if sound does not work after a re-install that you raise a bug report, and also possibly try forcing one of those codes. I can help you with the technique as to how the codes are applied.
1st BEFORE trying ANY of what I have below, you should go to YaST and install pavucontrol application. Then launch that application, and try to use it to tune your audio. I provided some guidance here on that in a blog: https://forums.opensuse.org/entry.php/96-Pulseaudio-Basics-for-openSUSE-with-pavucontrol. Its important IMHO to try this before otherwise wasting your time.
Only if no success there you could try different codecs. The idea would be to try each and every one of those codes, one at a time, with a test in between each one.
For example, lets consider " alc269-dmic " .
To do such a test, with root permissions and your favourite text editor, go into your PC’s /etc/modprobe.d/50-sound.conf file, and at the START of that file, add a line which is (but without the quotes): “options snd-hda-intel model=alc269-dmic” , save the change.
Then restart your PC, and test.
If that does not work, edit the 50-sound.conf file and try another code instead of alc269-dmic. ie for example to try now the codec “laptop-amic” , replace that 1st line with: options snd-hda-intel model=laptop-amic , save the change, reboot and test.
If all the testing is complete and NONE worked, then remove that first line and restore everything back to the way it was when you first started.