No Sound in ASUS M2N SE Plus

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Hey,
I’m running OpenSuse 10.3 on my ASUS M2NSE Plus Motherboard based Desktop PC. it is a dual-core machine with AMD Athelon 64 bit 4800+ Processor.

It has a Dual-boot of Win XP and Opensuse 10.3, initially in Winxp i had installed my audio driver and that works, but after trying to install alsa drivers in opensuse 10.3 i had lost my PC’s Sound in Both Operating Systems.

Here are some configuration Details that may assist you in helping me:

homepc:~ # rpm -qa | grep alsa
alsa-driver-kmp-default-1.0.16.20080721_2.6.22.5_31-1.1
alsa-oss-1.0.17.git20080715-2.1
alsa-driver-kmp-debug-1.0.16.20080721_2.6.22.5_31-1.1
alsa-plugins-maemo-1.0.17.git20080717-1.1
alsa-tools-gui-1.0.17.git20080715-1.1
kalsatools-1.5.0-468
alsa-plugins-jack-1.0.17.git20080717-1.1
alsa-plugins-samplerate-1.0.17.git20080717-1.1
alsa-1.0.17.git20080715-1.1
alsa-driver-kmp-bigsmp-1.0.16.20080721_2.6.22.5_31-1.1
alsamixergui-0.9.0rc1-644
alsa-firmware-1.0.14-24
alsa-driver-doc-1.0.16.20080721-1.1
alsa-tools-devel-1.0.17.git20080715-1.1
alsaplayer-0.99.80-5.39
alsa-docs-1.0.17.git20080715-1.1
alsa-plugins-pulse-1.0.17.git20080717-1.1
alsa-devel-1.0.17.git20080715-1.1
alsa-utils-1.0.17.git20080715-1.1
openal-alsa-emu10k1-1.2-1.61
alsa-plugins-1.0.17.git20080717-1.1
alsa-tools-1.0.17.git20080715-1.1

homepc:~ # rpm -qa | grep pulse
libpulse-mainloop-glib0-0.9.8-6.38
libpulsecore4-0.9.8-6.38
libpulse-devel-0.9.8-6.38
libao-pulse-0.9.3-2.44
alsa-plugins-pulse-1.0.17.git20080717-1.1
libpulse0-0.9.8-6.38
libpulse-browse0-0.9.8-6.38

homepc:~ # rpm -q libasound2
libasound2-1.0.17.git20080715-1.1

homepc:~ # cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound

options snd-hda-intel enable=1 index=0

CvwD.RCKed0PPX+4:MCP61 High Definition Audio

alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel

homepc:~ # cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#* |grep Codec
Codec: Realtek ALC662 rev1

Please help, Thanks in advance…

Rajeev
Rajeev_RSD@Hotmail.com

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here is tsalsa.sh output:
tsalsa version 2008-08-05 Mon Aug 11 20:54:33 IST 2008
Problem: No Sound, on both Opensuse 10.3 and WinXP. using Headphone, as well as speakers. sound had lost after installing alsa-driver in opensuse.

PC type/make/model: desktop : ASUS M2N SE-Plus, AMD Athelon 4800+ dual-core
Plugs: 2
Surround sound system: no
Model options: no
Number of speakers: 0
Linux install is an upgrade from a previous version: no
PC age (approximate): 1 month
Groups: user is in these groups: Hardware Mixing: enabled if count is greater than 1: subdevices_count: 1

Distro: Welcome to openSUSE 10.3 (i586) - Kernel

Release: SuSE-release
lsb-release
2.6.22.5-31-bigsmp
System: Linux homepc 2.6.22.5-31-bigsmp #1 SMP 2007/09/21 22:29:00 UTC i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

Vendor/dev id:
10de 03f0

Vendor/dev module:

Vendor/device: 0403:
Lspci info:
00:05.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP61 High Definition Audio (rev a2)

Alsa driver: 1.0.17
Alsa lib: 1.0.17
Alsa utils: 1.0.17

Alsa modules:
snd_hda_intel

Snd/soundcore:
snd 75964 8 snd_pcm_oss
snd_mixer_oss
snd_seq
snd_seq_device
snd_hda_intel
snd_pcm
snd_timer
snd_hwdep
soundcore 23748 1 snd

Alsa cards:
0 [NVidia ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
HDA NVidia at 0xdfef8000 irq 10

Codec:

    Codec: Realtek ALC662 rev1

Lsof output:

cardcnt: 0
Amixer item options for card 0 [NVidia] _________________________________
: values=on
‘Channel Mode’ ; Item #0 ‘2ch’ ; Item #1 ‘6ch’ : values=0
‘Input Source’ ; Item #0 ‘Mic’ ; Item #1 ‘Front Mic’ ; Item #2 ‘Line’ ; Item #3 ‘CD’

Amixer contents for card 0 [NVidia] _____________________________________
amixer set ‘Master’,0 75% on
amixer set ‘Headphone’,0 on on
amixer set ‘PCM’,0 70% 70%
amixer set ‘Front’,0 75%,75% on
amixer set ‘Front Mic’,0 100%,100% on
amixer set ‘Surround’,0 100%,100% on
amixer set ‘Center’,0 100% on
amixer set ‘LFE’,0 100% on
amixer set ‘Line’,0 100%,100% on
amixer set ‘CD’,0 68%,68% on
amixer set ‘Mic’,0 100%,100% on
amixer set ‘IEC958’,0 off Capture on
amixer set ‘IEC958 Default PCM’,0 on
amixer set ‘PC Speaker’,0 100%,100% on
amixer set ‘Capture’,0 Capture 0 0% off Capture 0 0% off
amixer set ‘Channel Mode’,0 Items: ‘2ch’ ‘6ch’ Item0: ‘2ch’
amixer set ‘Input Source’,0 Items: ‘Mic’ ‘Front Mic’ ‘Line’ ‘CD’ Item0: ‘Line’

raw amixer output:
Simple mixer control ‘Master’,0
Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Limits: Playback 0 - 64
Mono: Playback 48 [75%] -16.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control ‘Headphone’,0
Capabilities: pswitch
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Mono:
Front Left: Playback [on]
Front Right: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control ‘PCM’,0
Capabilities: pvolume
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 255
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 178 [70%] -15.40dB]
Front Right: Playback 178 [70%] -15.40dB]
Simple mixer control ‘Front’,0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 64
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 48 [75%] -16.00dB] [on]
Front Right: Playback 48 [75%] -16.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control ‘Front Mic’,0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 31
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 31 [100%] [12.00dB] [on]
Front Right: Playback 31 [100%] [12.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control ‘Surround’,0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 64
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Front Right: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control ‘Center’,0
Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Limits: Playback 0 - 64
Mono: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control ‘LFE’,0
Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Limits: Playback 0 - 64
Mono: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control ‘Line’,0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 31
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 31 [100%] [12.00dB] [on]
Front Right: Playback 31 [100%] [12.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control ‘CD’,0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 31
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 21 [68%] -3.00dB] [on]
Front Right: Playback 21 [68%] -3.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control ‘Mic’,0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 31
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 31 [100%] [12.00dB] [on]
Front Right: Playback 31 [100%] [12.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control ‘IEC958’,0
Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined cswitch cswitch-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Capture channels: Mono
Mono: Playback [off] Capture [on]
Simple mixer control ‘IEC958 Default PCM’,0
Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Mono: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control ‘PC Speaker’,0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 31
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 31 [100%] [12.00dB] [on]
Front Right: Playback 31 [100%] [12.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control ‘Capture’,0
Capabilities: cvolume cswitch
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Capture 0 - 31
Front Left: Capture 0 [0%] -13.50dB] [off]
Front Right: Capture 0 [0%] -13.50dB] [off]
Simple mixer control ‘Channel Mode’,0
Capabilities: enum
Items: ‘2ch’ ‘6ch’
Item0: ‘2ch’
Simple mixer control ‘Input Source’,0
Capabilities: cenum
Items: ‘Mic’ ‘Front Mic’ ‘Line’ ‘CD’
Item0: ‘Line’

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Here is tsalsa.sh Output:
general pastebin - tsalsa_out - post number 1166644

Hope this will Help …

Rajeev

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Well, alsa drivers will have nothing to do with your losing sound in both OS. If you lost sound in both OS, it is likely a hardware problem. Maybe your cables are plugged in incorrectly (I’ve seen posts who had their children mistakenly change the plugs, or the maid, or the wife, or the user themselves) …

Reference your alsa list, … you have far too many installed.

If this is openSUSE-10.3 (KDE) and NOT openSUSE-11.0, then I recommend you remove most of these alsa apps and keep only:
alsa-oss
alsa
alsa-plugins
alsa-utils
alsa-firmware
alsa-tools
alsa-driver-kmp-bigsmp
libasound2
If this is Gnome, or openSUSE-11.0, then ignore my recommendation.

Now, I need to see your kernel version. Please type:
**uname -a **
and post the output. If this is not a big smb kernel, then you have installed the wrong alsa driver

. Thanks for that. For 1.0.17 of alsa there were some improvements done for the ALC662:
Search results for ALC662 - AlsaProject

And I note this from the ALSA-Configuration.txt file that comes with the alsa driver tarballs:
ALC662/663
3stack-dig 3-stack (2-channel) with SPDIF
3stack-6ch 3-stack (6-channel)
3stack-6ch-dig 3-stack (6-channel) with SPDIF
6stack-dig 6-stack with SPDIF
lenovo-101e Lenovo laptop
eeepc-p701 ASUS Eeepc P701
eeepc-ep20 ASUS Eeepc EP20
m51va ASUS M51VA
g71v ASUS G71V
h13 ASUS H13
g50v ASUS G50V
auto auto-config reading BIOS (default)
where the items in red are new with 1.0.17 of alsa.

Still, before recommending any changes to the /etc/modprobe.d/sound it would be useful to see your kernel version, and also see the output of runing the following script in a konsole / gnome terminal:

  wget http://home.cfl.rr.com/infofiles/tsalsa && su -c 'bash ./tsalsa'

and enter root password when prompted. Try to answer the question about the number of plugs/jacks as accurately as possible (for example my PC has 3 i/o jacks/plugs). The script will give you a URL … please post that URL here.

I’m also told 1.0.17 of alsa includes the alsa-info.sh script. I don’t know the exact command (I need to try 1.0.17 of alsa myself). Type
alsa-info
and see what that gives!

Could you also let me know if you have a gnome or kde desktop?

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I have a KDE3 Desktop
and currently i’m in windows so i will tell all further details after some time(maybe hours).

and Thanks for fast reply

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Thanks!

Looks like we posted at the same time (almost).

You should check your hardware. Windows and Linux are separate. Losing sound in both is either two separate software problems (one in each that are most likely completely different and a bit of a coincidence) or it is one common hardware problem.

Now, I note your alsa driver does match your kernel. Still, I recommend you cut back on your alsa apps, then reboot.

You could try modifying your /etc/modprobe.d/sound file as follows:

options snd-hda-intel enable=1 index=0 model=3stack-dig
# CvwD.RCKed0PPX+4:MCP61 High Definition Audio
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel

and restart your alsa (from a konsole/gnome-terminal) with rcalsasound restart and test your sound. Please copy and paste the following as a sound test:
speaker-test -Dplug:front -c2 -l5 -twav

if that does not work, in the /etc/modprobe.d/sound file, replace “3stack-dig” with 3stack-6ch and try again. Restart alsa, test your sound. If that does not work, then try each of the models referenced, one at a time, saving the file, restart alsa, testing the sound …etc …: ie with: 3stack-6ch-dig, lenovo-101e, eeepc-p701, eeepc-ep20, m51va, g71v, h13, g50v, and auto.

Good luck.

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Here is the output of uname -a:

homepc:~ # uname -a
Linux homepc 2.6.22.5-31-default #1 SMP 2007/09/21 22:29:00 UTC i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

I have a KDE3 Desktop
also removed alsa packages as you told me to do so.
so now my configuration is as follows:

homepc:~ # rpm -qa | grep alsa
alsa-oss-1.0.17.git20080715-2.1
alsa-1.0.17.git20080715-1.1
alsa-driver-kmp-bigsmp-1.0.16.20080721_2.6.22.5_31-1.1
alsa-firmware-1.0.14-24
alsa-devel-1.0.17.git20080715-1.1
alsa-utils-1.0.17.git20080715-1.1
alsa-plugins-1.0.17.git20080717-1.1
alsa-tools-1.0.17.git20080715-1.1

homepc:~ # rpm -qa | grep pulse
libpulse-mainloop-glib0-0.9.8-6.38
libpulsecore4-0.9.8-6.38
libpulse-devel-0.9.8-6.38
libao-pulse-0.9.3-2.44
libpulse0-0.9.8-6.38
libpulse-browse0-0.9.8-6.38

homepc:~ # rpm -q libasound2
libasound2-1.0.17.git20080715-1.1

homepc:~ # cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound

options snd-hda-intel enable=1 index=0

CvwD.RCKed0PPX+4:MCP61 High Definition Audio

alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel

homepc:~ # cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#* | grep Codec
Codec: Realtek ALC662 rev1

and I have 3 Pin Slots on backside of my computer(Mic, Line-in, Line-out)
out of these three i’m using Line-out and Line-in
on Line-out there is a Headphone attached
at Line-in there is a Sound Recording Device is attached

i had posted alsa-info output to pastebin, its address is:
general pastebin - alsa-info - post number 1166724
Please help, i need to make it work as soon as possible.

Rajeev
Rajeev_RSD@hotmail.com

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I can’t help if you change things dramatically. According to the above, you have a default kernel.

But earlier, in this URL: general pastebin - tsalsa_out - post number 1166644 # you reported 2.6.22.5-31-bigsmp which is a different kernel

#System: Linux homepc 2.6.22.5-31-bigsmp #1 SMP 2007/09/21 22:29:00 UTC i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

I hope you understand that different kernels require different drivers.

Please STOP changing your kernel like this. I can NOT help you if you keep this up. OK ?

Now, your sound will NOT work, because you have this installed:
alsa-driver-kmp-bigsmp-1.0.16.20080721_2.6.22.5_31-1.1
when instead you need this:
alsa-driver-kmp-default.

Again, I can’t help you if you changing kernels like this.

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Sorry Sir, I had Installed Both Kernels and Probably i had Logged-in to default shell, please take the

"Default Kernel as My Kernel"

I will Remove the bigsmp kernel as after installing this i got big problems.
Probably that is why my machine goes wrong.

Let me remove this bigsmp kernel, and if the things go on then Thanks, Otherwise i will post again my situation to you ASAP
Rajeev

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As noted above, alsa drivers will have nothing to do with your losing sound in both OS. If you lost sound in both OS, it is likely a hardware problem. Maybe your cables are plugged in incorrectly (I’ve seen posts who had their children mistakenly change the plugs, or the maid, or the wife, or the user themselves).

Have you checked you hardware?

I recommend you download either (or both) sidux live CD and/or kanotix live CD. Burn them as an image file, and then boot to the live CDs and test your audio. If they do not have audio, then that will confirm this is likely a hardware problem.
kanotix : kanotix.com :: GNU Linux Live system based on Debian, optimized for HD-install and high performance
sidux : sidux.com :: debian based live cd development

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ok Sir, i will try the live cd’s Option can i use Opensuse 10.3 GM Edition Live CD that i had downloaded a month before from download.Opensuse.org

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I recommend you use Sidux or Kanotix. The idea is to use a distribution substantially different from what you are trying now. openSUSE-10.3 is not substantially different.

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You must install creative soundblaster sound card for good result.In my machine have good results and best sound.