No sound ALC889A OpenSuSE 11.1 X86_64

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I can’t seem to get sound working, any ideas?
after running the alsa-info.sh script it appears to had emptied itself!!!

Gigabyte GA-MA790GP-DS4H rev 1

alsa-info.sh

…
ALSA-Info script has been updated to v
To view the ChangeLog, please visit git.alsa-project.org Git - alsa-driver.git/history - utils/alsa-info.sh
Please re-run the script

alsa-info.sh

alsa-info.sh

*** Nothing returned the second time I ran the script

rpm -qa | grep alsa

alsa-tools-gui-1.0.17-1.37
alsa-firmware-1.0.17-1.42
alsa-plugins-pulse-1.0.18-6.13
alsa-1.0.18-8.9
alsa-devel-1.0.18-8.9
alsa-plugins-samplerate-1.0.18-1.7
alsamixergui-0.9.0rc1-584.84
alsa-plugins-1.0.18-6.13
alsa-oss-1.0.17-1.43
alsa-tools-1.0.18-1.16
alsa-utils-1.0.18-6.4
alsa-docs-1.0.19.git20090203-1.1

rpm -qa | grep pulse

libpulse-browse0-0.9.12-9.5
alsa-plugins-pulse-1.0.18-6.13
libpulse-mainloop-glib0-0.9.12-9.5
pulseaudio-module-zeroconf-0.9.12-9.5
pulseaudio-esound-compat-0.9.12-9.5
libpulsecore4-0.9.12-9.5
libxine1-pulse-1.1.15-20.8
pulseaudio-0.9.12-9.5
pulseaudio-module-gconf-0.9.12-9.5
pulseaudio-module-jack-0.9.12-9.5
pulseaudio-module-x11-0.9.12-9.5
libpulse0-32bit-0.9.12-9.6
pulseaudio-utils-0.9.12-9.5
pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-0.9.12-9.5
libpulse0-0.9.12-9.5
pulseaudio-module-lirc-0.9.12-9.5

rpm -q libasound2

libasound2-1.0.18-8.9

cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound

ALSA portion

alias char-major-116 snd

OSS/Free portion

alias char-major-14 soundcore

options snd slots=snd-hda-intel

5Dex.oA41xEVyYuE:SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)

alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel

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Output from alsa-info.sh is

ALSA information is located at http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=24f2020e25602674da74e882ef8090f37eb34a65

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See also (from tsalsa - ref SDB:AudiTroubleshooting)

tsalsa.txt - nopaste.com (beta)

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A lot of users are having difficulty with the ALC889A with openSUSE-11.1.

I have read of a user having success after adding their regular user to group audio, and then restarting (per this guide step 6 here): SDB:AudioTroubleshooting - fix a permissions problem - openSUSE

I do not believe that will be enough. In your case I recommend you update to the latest cutting edge alsa versions, packaged by an alsa/openSUSE developer for openSUSE. The guidance for doing that is here: Alsa-update - openSUSE

To save you having to figure that alsa update page out, I’ll give you the six commands you need to send.

First, with your PC connected to the Internet, open a kde konsole or a gnome terminal, and type “su” (no quotes, and enter your root password when prompted), and then copy and paste the following in sequence, one line at a time, into the konsole/terminal:

zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/multimedia:/audio/openSUSE_11.1/ multimedia 

zypper install alsa alsa-devel alsa-oss alsa-plugins alsa-plugins-pulse alsa-utils alsa-plugins-samplerate alsa-tools-gui alsa-tools alsa-firmware libasound2 

 zypper rr multimedia 

 zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/multimedia:/audio:/KMP/openSUSE_11.1/ multimedia 

zypper install alsa-driver-kmp-default 

 zypper rr multimedia

then restart your PC and test your audio. Be certain to check your mixer.

That still may not work, in which case we may need to figure out a custom model to configure in your PCs /etc/modprobe.d/sound file.

As a note, I customized one of the alsa update commands per your reposted alsa config. But you have more alsa applications than what I believe you need. In general in Linux (perhaps unlike windows) users do not add extra applications that are not needed, as those can add bloat and complicate problem solving by adding unnecessary side effects. I’m hoping the extra apps you have installed will have no negative effects.