Audio on Pavilion dv7 1070el

[user]

Just installed Opensuse 11.0 on the second HD. Vista Premium is installed on the first HD.

On Vista: audio hardware is reported as Nvidia HDMI Audio
Hardware information in Opensuse reports 82801l (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller.
Cannot hear any sound with Opensuse
There’s a touch key on the keyboard that switches on the audio.
It doesn’t switches on! It always shows a red led.
When I boot Vista it works perfectly.

Is there anyone who can give me any suggestion?
Thanks in advance.

Sandro

[oldcpu]

The dv7 is similar to the DV5. I was researching laptops recently and I noted this:

@oldcpu

HP dv5-1030eg or dv5-1110eg, or dv5-1130eg. I think wireless might be an Intel-5100 AGN (which again means 2.6.27 kernel required, like the Dell Studio 15 above). I think the audio is a IDT92HD71B7X (ie a STAC92XX) and a purported workaround to get the sound working is to add a line at the end of one’s /etc/modprobe.d/sound file: options snd-hda-intel enable_msi=1 . I also (just prior to this post) note one user in an dv5-1002 required a special acpi parameter to boot openSUSE-11.0 (disabling acpi). But the laptop did work in openSUSE-10.3 with out that. Possibly a kernel problem in 11.0 that hopefully can be fixed

I also note a dv7 user here who tried to get sound, but failed Beta 5, no sound - openSUSE Forums You could try the suggestions I made in that thread.

Note if this sound test fails:speaker-test -Dplug:front -c2 -l5 -twav
then try this sound test: speaker-test -c2 -l5 -twav

[Karalabe]

Definitely try my thread there as in the end I managed to get it going. See the last post there… it contains the solution that worked for me.

[user]

Hi to everybody!

added the following line to /etc/modprobe.d/sound
options snd-hda-intel model=hp-m4 enable_msi=1

it works! Thank you

PS: Treble is ok; Bass seems not to be working!