No sound from speakers headphones work

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#1

I try to get sound out of the speakers of my HP dv4305us laptop. I researching the web for a while but couldn’t find any help. There are a lot of helps for the snd-hda-intel regarding that problem but I seem to have an ICH6 snd-intel8x0 sound chip.I just installed openSuse and sound work afterwards. Then I installed mplayer from source and the issue occured.

/etc/modprobe.d/sound

options snd-intel8x0 buggy_irq=1 buggy_semaphore=1
options snd slots=snd-intel8x0

r0Vg.KyB45pyNxDC:82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC’97 Audio Controller

alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0

alsa setup is here

http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=53fac06075d7f0214a05c774eee398e97445cc02

What can I do to fix it? Thanks a lot. BTW I’m more a newby then a expert.

#2

I do not know exactly what is needed. But I note this:

!!ALSA Version
!!------------
Driver version:     1.0.21-git20091014
Library version:    
Utilities version:  1.0.18

A misbalance of the driver and utilities might contribute to the problem.

I also note this:

options snd-intel8x0 buggy_irq=1 buggy_semaphore=1
options snd slots=snd-intel8x0
# r0Vg.KyB45pyNxDC:82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0

Is buggy_irq=1 buggy_semaphore=1 necessary?

Can you provide the output of:

rpm -qa '*alsa*'
#3

rpm -qa ‘alsa’
alsa-utils-1.0.18-6.4
alsa-firmware-1.0.17-1.42
alsa-driver-unstable-kmp-pae-1.0.21.20091014_2.6.27.7_9.1-2.1
alsa-1.0.18-8.12.1
alsa-plugins-1.0.18-6.12
alsa-plugins-pulse-1.0.18-6.12
kalsatools-1.5.0-499.130
alsa-tools-1.0.18-1.13
alsa-driver-kmp-pae-1.0.21.20091024_2.6.27.7_9.1-1.1
alsa-oss-1.0.17-1.37

I don’t think buggy_irq=1 buggy_semaphore=1 is necessary I just played with it to naybe get it going but doesn’t make any difference.

#4

I recommend you remove alsa-driver-unstable-kmp-pae-1.0.21.20091014_2.6.27.7_9.1-2.1

I also recommend you remove the line from your /etc/modprobe.d/sound file:

options snd-intel8x0 buggy_irq=1 buggy_semaphore=1

(it can always be put back in if needed).

Do NOT keep backup files in /etc/modprobe.d/ directory, as they may be called automatically, even if you give them a funny file name. Keep backups outside of that directory.

Then with your PC connected to the internet, in a terminal with root permissions, I recommend you copy and paste and send the following six zypper commands in sequence, one at a time:

zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/multimedia:/libs/openSUSE_11.1/ multimedia01


zypper install alsa alsa-docs alsa-utils alsa-firmware alsa-plugins alsa-plugins-pulse alsa-tools alsa-oss libasound2

zypper rr multimedia01

zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/multimedia:/audio:/KMP/openSUSE_11.1/ multimedia02

zypper install alsa-driver-kmp-pae

zypper rr multimedia02
#5

Ok, did all that. Now it looks like that but the sound is totally gone.

linux-r7la:/home/psy/Documents # rpm -qa ‘alsa’
alsa-utils-1.0.18-6.4
alsa-firmware-1.0.17-1.42
alsa-1.0.18-8.12.1
alsa-plugins-1.0.18-6.12
alsa-plugins-pulse-1.0.18-6.12
kalsatools-1.5.0-499.130
alsa-tools-1.0.18-1.13
alsa-driver-kmp-pae-1.0.21.20091024_2.6.27.7_9.1-1.1
alsa-docs-1.0.18-8.12.1
alsa-oss-1.0.17-1.37

etc/modprobe.d/sound
options snd slots=snd-intel8x0

r0Vg.KyB45pyNxDC:82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC’97 Audio Controller

alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0

#6

clearly the update failed. You still have the wrong version of alsa-utils, alsa-firmware, alsa, alsa-plugins, alsa-plugins-pulse, alsa-tools, alsa-docs, alsa-oss.

You MUST have had an error message after the second zypper command.

#7

Now I’m confused. This time I deleted all alsa packages with Yast first. rpm -qa ‘alsa’ show nothing afterwards. So I went ahead and did all the zyppers as you recommended. But now I have the same stuff back.

linux-r7la:/home/psy/Documents # rpm -qa ‘alsa’
alsa-plugins-1.0.18-6.12
alsa-firmware-1.0.17-1.42
alsa-driver-kmp-pae-1.0.21.20091024_2.6.27.7_9.1-1.1
alsa-utils-1.0.18-6.4
alsa-docs-1.0.18-8.12.1
alsa-plugins-pulse-1.0.18-6.12
alsa-tools-1.0.18-1.13
alsa-1.0.18-8.12.1
alsa-oss-1.0.17-1.37

Where does it get that from?

#8

The command I provided looks correct. What you ended up doing was installing off of either the CD/DVD or the OSS directory. Its likely because you have a very high priority for the CD/DVD or the OSS directory. Go to YaST > Software > Software Repositories, and give OSS a very high number. Then try again to install those applications.

You can check your repositories, and their priority by typing:
zypper lr -d

#9

Oh ya I had the DVD in the drive. Is that what you expected

linux-r7la:/home/psy # rpm -qa ‘alsa’
alsa-oss-1.0.17-25.11
alsa-driver-kmp-pae-1.0.21.20091025_2.6.27.7_9.1-1.1
alsa-docs-1.0.18-8.12.1
alsa-plugins-1.0.21-17.3
alsa-tools-1.0.21-4.4
alsa-utils-1.0.21-13.3
alsa-1.0.18-8.12.1
alsa-firmware-1.0.20-5.1
alsa-plugins-pulse-1.0.21-17.3

mplayer now plays sound over speaker and headphone but no other program does anything e.g. firefox has no sound at all (it did before)

Going from runlevel 1 to runlevel 2 I get the message services failed in runlevel 2 - alsasound. As well when KDE comes up a windows pops up shortly saying - Phonon → Ich6 … not working switch to default.

#10

So, headphones work now? Congratulations !!

This could be a different problem. To play sound in firefox I have flash-player installed and the depreciated mplayerplug-in installed (others use gecko-mediaplayer). You may find it necessary to remove libflashsupport (but keep flash-player) to get sound working in firefox. Also test more than one web site.

What other media players give no sound?

Thats a known bug I believe. There are a more than a few threads here, where users have posted solutions that worked for them:

#11

The only program that plays sound is mplayer.

I played the /usr/share/sounds/alsa/test.wav.

Amarok does not output sound
Kaffein does not output sound
SUSE does not play start up or shut down sound
Firefox doesn’t paly any sound on youTube, cnn what so ever. I have only flashplayer plugin and no libflashsupport.

What does it mean when going from runlevel 1 to 2 on tty puts out - services failed in runlavel 2 - alsasound?

#12

OK, good. This proves what we need to know, which is your basic sound functions. Everything is simple configuration hiccups that you have encountered because of a lack of familiarity, and its easy to fix. Once you know your way around openSUSE, this sort of thing can be fixed in less than 5 minutes after a fresh install.

Both Amarok and Kaffeine can give one a choice of using either gstreamer or xine as their sound engine. The key thing here is openSUSE as packaged by Novell/SuSE-GmbH is typically crippled for proprietary multimedia codecs, and hence one needs to replace the Novell/SuSE-GmbH packaged multimedia applications with their equivalent Packman packaged multimedia applications. You can tell Packman packaged applications by the “pm” in the application version number.

I recommend you follow caf4926’s guide here to fix the above: Multi-media and Restricted Format Installation Guide - openSUSE Forums
in addition to the apps caf4926 mentions in that guide, also install the packman packaged version of amarok, amarok-packman, amarok-xine , replacing any Novell versions. In amarok, in the menu’s, change the sound engine to use xine.

I myself do NOT like those sounds, hence I’m not one to help you there. BUT if you want help on that, you need to tell those monitoring this thread what desktop you are using, as this tends to be desktop specific. ie the settings for that are different for LXDE, different for Enlightenment, different for Xfce, different for Gnome, different for KDE3, different for KDE4. You need to advise which desktop this does not work.

Also, be certain you have your mixer settings at a good high level for those sounds to work (ie Master, PCM, and speaker controls).

I have no idea what this means. You will need to be 100% precise when quoting such errors if you wish help there. Take a pix of it with your digital camera and post the pix on a site such as imagebam and post here the link so we can see what you are talking about.