No coherent sound opensuse 11.1

ok…i tried installing opensuse 11.0 and my network card wouldn’t work, tried installing 11.1, network works now but sound don’t work right…if i do speaker-test -c2 -l5 -twav, i get a bunch of warbled intermittent tones and nothing you can understand. Using the HDA intel on a HP laptop… can anyone help me figure out where to start?

show us the outcome of :
cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#2

Be a bit more specific about you hardware.
Also lspci | grep Audio would be helpful

Both as ROOT.

Typically I recommend users with sound problems try working their way through the openSUSE audio troubleshooting guide: SDB:AudioTroubleshooting - openSUSEYou may have tried that already …

If you have no success with the audio troubleshooting guide, then you could provide more detailed information on your hardware and software wrt your sound in openSUSE-11.1. … You can do that, with your PC connected to the internet, by opening a gnome-terminal or a kde konsole and typing:
/usr/sbin/alsa-info.shthat will run a diagnostic script and post the output to a web site on the Internet. It will give you the URL of the web site. Please post that URL here. (Just the URL) It may be that you need to run that script with root permissions.

Also, please copy and paste the following commands one line at a time into a gnome-terminal or a konsole and post here the output: rpm -qa | grep alsa
rpm -qa | grep pulse
rpm -q libasound2
uname -a
cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound
cat /proc/interrupts

ok…it’s a HP DV7-1170 laptop has
for audio part of the lspci -v output

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 30f4
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 22
Memory at df300000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [60] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Count=1/1 Enable+
Capabilities: [70] Express Root Complex Integrated Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel <?>
Capabilities: [130] Root Complex Link <?>
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel


inux-6dnv:/home/jason # cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#2
Codec: Generic 10de ID 6
Address: 2
Vendor Id: 0x10de0006
Subsystem Id: 0x10de0101
Revision Id: 0x100000
No Modem Function Group found
Default PCM:
rates [0x0]:
bits [0x0]:
formats [0x0]:
Default Amp-In caps: N/A
Default Amp-Out caps: N/A
GPIO: io=0, o=0, i=0, unsolicited=0, wake=0
Node 0x04 [Audio Output] wcaps 0x211: Stereo Digital
Converter: stream=0, channel=0
Digital:
Digital category: 0x0
PCM:
rates [0xc0]: 48000 88200
bits [0xf]: 8 16 20 24
formats [0x1]: PCM
Node 0x05 [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x400381: Stereo Digital
Pincap 0x00000014: OUT Detect
Pin Default 0x18560110: [Jack] Digital Out at Int HDMI
Conn = Digital, Color = Unknown
DefAssociation = 0x1, Sequence = 0x0
Misc = NO_PRESENCE
Pin-ctls: 0x00:
Unsolicited: tag=00, enabled=0
Connection: 1
0x04
Node 0x06 [Audio Output] wcaps 0x211: Stereo Digital
Converter: stream=0, channel=0
Digital:
Digital category: 0x0
PCM:
rates [0xc0]: 48000 88200
bits [0xf]: 8 16 20 24
formats [0x1]: PCM
Node 0x07 [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x400381: Stereo Digital
Pincap 0x00000014: OUT Detect
Pin Default 0x58560121: [N/A] Digital Out at Int HDMI
Conn = Digital, Color = Unknown
DefAssociation = 0x2, Sequence = 0x1
Misc = NO_PRESENCE
Pin-ctls: 0x00:
Unsolicited: tag=00, enabled=0
Connection: 1
0x06
Node 0x08 [Audio Output] wcaps 0x211: Stereo Digital
Converter: stream=0, channel=0
Digital:
Digital category: 0x0
PCM:
rates [0xc0]: 48000 88200
bits [0xf]: 8 16 20 24
formats [0x1]: PCM
Node 0x09 [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x400381: Stereo Digital
Pincap 0x00000014: OUT Detect
Pin Default 0x58560122: [N/A] Digital Out at Int HDMI
Conn = Digital, Color = Unknown
DefAssociation = 0x2, Sequence = 0x2
Misc = NO_PRESENCE
Pin-ctls: 0x00:
Unsolicited: tag=00, enabled=0
Connection: 1
0x08
Node 0x0a [Audio Output] wcaps 0x211: Stereo Digital
Converter: stream=0, channel=0
Digital:
Digital category: 0x0
PCM:
rates [0xc0]: 48000 88200
bits [0xf]: 8 16 20 24
formats [0x1]: PCM
Node 0x0b [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x400381: Stereo Digital
Pincap 0x00000014: OUT Detect
Pin Default 0x58560123: [N/A] Digital Out at Int HDMI
Conn = Digital, Color = Unknown
DefAssociation = 0x2, Sequence = 0x3
Misc = NO_PRESENCE
Pin-ctls: 0x00:
Unsolicited: tag=00, enabled=0
Connection: 1
0x0a
Node 0x0c [Audio Output] wcaps 0x211: Stereo Digital
Converter: stream=0, channel=0
Digital:
Digital category: 0x0
PCM:
rates [0xc0]: 48000 88200
bits [0xf]: 8 16 20 24
formats [0x1]: PCM
Node 0x0d [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x400381: Stereo Digital
Pincap 0x00000014: OUT Detect
Pin Default 0x58560124: [N/A] Digital Out at Int HDMI
Conn = Digital, Color = Unknown
DefAssociation = 0x2, Sequence = 0x4
Misc = NO_PRESENCE
Pin-ctls: 0x00:
Unsolicited: tag=00, enabled=0
Connection: 1
0x0c


info uploaded

http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=2f7eaee15d0655d29b6be70c3b8372e24c60afff


inux-6dnv:/home/jason # rpm -qa | grep alsa
alsa-utils-1.0.18-6.4
alsa-1.0.18-8.7
alsa-plugins-pulse-1.0.18-6.12
alsa-oss-1.0.17-1.37
alsa-plugins-1.0.18-6.12


linux-6dnv:/home/jason # rpm -qa | grep pulse
pulseaudio-module-zeroconf-0.9.12-9.6
libpulsecore4-0.9.12-9.6
libpulse-browse0-0.9.12-9.6
pulseaudio-utils-0.9.12-9.6
pulseaudio-module-x11-0.9.12-9.6
pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-0.9.12-9.6
pulseaudio-module-lirc-0.9.12-9.6
libpulse0-0.9.12-9.6
libxine1-pulse-1.1.15-20.8
pulseaudio-0.9.12-9.6
pulseaudio-esound-compat-0.9.12-9.6
libpulse-mainloop-glib0-0.9.12-9.6
alsa-plugins-pulse-1.0.18-6.12
pulseaudio-module-jack-0.9.12-9.6


                    linux-6dnv:/home/jason # rpm -q libasound2

libasound2-1.0.18-8.7


linux-6dnv:/home/jason # uname -a
Linux linux-6dnv 2.6.27.7-9-pae #1 SMP 2008-12-04 18:10:04 +0100 i686 i686 i386GNU/Linux


linux-6dnv:/home/jason # cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound

options snd slots=snd-hda-intel

u1Nb.Jqboh86TqAC:82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller

alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel


linux-6dnv:/home/jason # cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0 CPU1
0: 298933 301694 IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 1964 1846 IO-APIC-edge i8042
8: 1 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc0
9: 1479 1721 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi
12: 61 62 IO-APIC-edge i8042
16: 68 56 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb2, ohci1394, mmc0, jmb38x_ms:slot0
17: 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb3
18: 0 2 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb1, uhci_hcd:usb7
19: 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb8
20: 79723 72980 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb4, uhci_hcd:usb5
22: 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb6, HDA Intel
214: 41567 42314 PCI-MSI-edge iwlagn
215: 26324 26408 PCI-MSI-edge eth0
216: 74819 75693 PCI-MSI-edge ahci
NMI: 0 0 Non-maskable interrupts
LOC: 282035 308712 Local timer interrupts
RES: 138625 139401 Rescheduling interrupts
CAL: 749 523 function call interrupts
TLB: 4063 2576 TLB shootdowns
TRM: 0 0 Thermal event interrupts
SPU: 0 0 Spurious interrupts
ERR: 0
MIS: 0


i think that is all the info…thanks a million again[/size]

I’ve helped a couple dv7 users, and also some dv5 users, where those two HP laptops have the same Codec as your dv7, which is: IDT 92HD71B7X.

Rather than give you a bunch of explanation, lets cut right to the chase, based on experience I have in helping other HP DV5/7 users. Please change your /etc/modprobe.d/sound file, such that it reads:

options snd slots=snd-hda-intel
options snd-hda-intel enable_msi=1 model=hp-m4
# u1Nb.Jqboh86TqAC:82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel

and then restart your PC, and test your audio. Be certain to move your sound up to 95% in both master and PCM volume controls. Use the speaker test: speaker-test -c2 -l5 -twavOnce you have sound, you can back off to a lower volume control level to avoid distortion.

IF that edit does not work, I will give you six zypper commands to update your alsa, and you can then try again with the updated alsa sound driver version.

There are also other model option possibilities (instead of “hp-m4”) that you can try and if necessary, I can also provide those.

Looks to me like Your card hasn’t been detected properly, at the beginning of cat should look like Realtek or something in Your case?

Try using YaST2 and sound option and if this doesn’t work try this one

Workaround for ICH9 Sound Problem on openSUSE 11.1 | Spirit of Change

Or read OldCpu’s solution first :slight_smile: He’s got more exp than me :slight_smile:

BenderBendingRodriguez, thanks for trying, but that link you provided is for an AD1884A / AD1883 / AD1984A / AD1984B which is not the same hardware, and IMHO it unfortunately won’t work on jasonmichel’s HP DV7.

wow…worked like a charm…thanks a million you guys…only question i have left is this, i installed the KDE 4.1, i usually always run gnome cause its cleaner looking to me. I want to reinstall with gnome…will the same steps work…or do you know an easy way i can get gnome without having to reinstall?

thanks again

You should not have to do a re-install. You should, in YaST > Software > Software Management > filter > patterns , be able to install the gnome-base-system and gnome-graphic environment from YaST.

Then go to YaST > Security and Users > User and Group Management and add a new user. Let that new user be the user account in which you access Gnome, and you can retain the old account if you still wish to access KDE-4.1.

This will mean a large download.

Next time I recommend you start a new thread on new topics, as with the appropriate title, a new thread is likely to garner superior attention from the forum gurus.

Great! I take it the edit to the /etc/modprobe.d/sound file, adding the line “options snd-hda-intel enable_msi=1 model=hp-m4” together with the PC restart and the 95% volume check did the trick.