I have a ICH9 chipset with a onboard sound card since my XF-I Xtreme Gamer doesn’t work in 11.0 (Thanks Creative!). I have a curious but relatively minor problem that I would just like to fix. Every time I restart fully my mic and front mic OUTPUTS are unmuted. Resulting in a loud noise feedback. I have to turn off my speakers on startup, mute the mic and front mic in kmix and then turn on the speaker. Sound works fine but it’s just bugging me. Anyone else have a problem like this or know how to fix it?
Next time you have your mic and audio levels EXACTLY where you want, open a gnome terminal or konsole and type:su -c ‘alsactl store’ and enter root password when prompted. That should save your default settings.
In order to give any more suggestions, you would need to provide more specific detail as to your hardware and software setup (wrt audio) and also more detail on what applications/drivers wrt audio you have installed. If you wish to pursue this, then please with your PC connected to the internet, please 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, one line at a time, 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
Now, on a DIFFERENT subject, I note you mention you have an XFi. There is work going on with trying to create a driver for it for alsa. I posted on that here: Experimental alsa X-Fi driver - openSUSE Forums
Note this driver is experimental, as the person who ported the OSS driver to alsa, does not have the hardware for an XFi. But they are looking for testers, and if you are ever in a wild hacking testing type mood, you could give it a try. If it were me, I probably would would create a separate test partition (with a separate install of openSUSE) and do my testing that way. Thats a rather draconian approach that I use, but I like to keep my main install as stable as possible, with no possibility of experimental apps messing things up.
