Audio problem with the MSI H67MA-E35 motherboard

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Just installed opensuse 11.4 using a new motherboard, the MSI H67MA-E35. According to the book that came with the Motherboard it has a Intel H67 chipset and a “HD audio codec integrated by Realtek ALC887”. Also have an older Hauppague TV card installed in the system. Not setting the sound quality I would expect. By this I mean that the audio played by webpages is low. And the audio played by the TV card is distorted. The volume control is ineffective. The only way I can adjust the volume is by the control on the speakers.

Perhaps it is just as simple as setting opensuse to use a different soundcard?

I have run the script also-inso.sh and the results were uploaded to:
http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=b4c8ce319a45ee64e12893643c089ec20f114b94

The other information requested is as follows:
alsa-devel-1.0.24.1-4.9.1.x86_64
alsa-utils-1.0.24.2-3.1.x86_64
alsa-plugins-32bit-1.0.24-6.1.x86_64
alsa-oss-1.0.17-32.1.x86_64
alsa-plugins-pulse-32bit-1.0.24-6.1.x86_64
alsa-plugins-1.0.24-6.1.x86_64
bluez-alsa-4.88-2.1.x86_64
alsa-oss-32bit-1.0.17-32.1.x86_64
alsa-plugins-pulse-1.0.24-6.1.x86_64
alsa-1.0.24.1-4.9.1.x86_64

libxine1-pulse-1.1.19-4.4.x86_64
libpulse-mainloop-glib0-32bit-0.9.22-6.11.1.x86_64
pulseaudio-gdm-hooks-0.9.22-6.11.1.x86_64
libpulse-browse0-0.9.22-6.11.1.x86_64
pulseaudio-module-lirc-0.9.22-6.11.1.x86_64
alsa-plugins-pulse-32bit-1.0.24-6.1.x86_64
libpulse0-32bit-0.9.22-6.11.1.x86_64
pulseaudio-0.9.22-6.11.1.x86_64
pulseaudio-utils-0.9.22-6.11.1.x86_64
pulseaudio-module-x11-0.9.22-6.11.1.x86_64
pulseaudio-lang-0.9.22-6.11.1.noarch
pulseaudio-module-jack-0.9.22-6.11.1.x86_64
pulseaudio-module-gconf-0.9.22-6.11.1.x86_64
libpulse-mainloop-glib0-0.9.22-6.11.1.x86_64
pulseaudio-esound-compat-0.9.22-6.11.1.x86_64
alsa-plugins-pulse-1.0.24-6.1.x86_64
libpulse0-0.9.22-6.11.1.x86_64
pulseaudio-module-zeroconf-0.9.22-6.11.1.x86_64
pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-0.9.22-6.11.1.x86_64
libpulse-devel-0.9.22-6.11.1.x86_64
xmms2-plugin-pulse-0.7-14.2.x86_64

libasound2-1.0.24.1-4.9.1.x86_64

Linux scott1 2.6.37.6-0.7-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT 2011-07-21 02:17:24 +0200 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

options snd slots=snd-hda-intel

u1Nb.kvBFY5sH2jE:Intel Corporation

alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel

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I note from the diagnostic script:


!!Sound Servers on this system
!!----------------------------

Pulseaudio:
      Installed - Yes (/usr/bin/pulseaudio)
      Running - Yes

I suspect (not sure) you are running the KDE desktop. I recommend you install the application pulse audio volume control (pavucontrol) [it will likely already be installed if you are a gnome user] and then see if by tuning pavucontrol you can better improve your volume control.

First, make a note of your current settings in pavucontrol under the ‘configuration’, ‘playback’ and ‘output devices’ tab. Do a screen print of each of those tabs if necessary to ensure you have a baseline copy of the applied settings. With that record you can always restore settings to where they were before you started tuning to attempt to improve.

Then ensure under the pavucontrol ‘configuration’ tab you have the correct settings applied, and under ‘output devices’ tab you have SHOW ‘all devices’ selected (and that you have an appropriate volume setting) and under the ‘playback’ tab you have SHOW ‘all streams’ selected and that you have an appropriate volume level selected.

Does that help ?