No sound in Biostar A770 A2+

Beforehand I beg yours pardon for my poor English. I have installed openSUSE 11.0 (KDE 3.5) on my new assembled PC:
MB: Biostar A770 A2+;
CPU: AMD Phenom X4 9550 Quad-core;
SB: ATI SB600;
Video: ATI Radeon X1950 Pro;
Sound: Integrated 6ch, Realtek ALC662 rev1.
It has dual-boot of WinXP SP3 and openSUSE 11.0. In XP sound does work, but things which are associated with South Bridge elapse very slowly (for example, very slow access to my hard drives - copying big files’ rate about 1Mb/s instead of 15-20Mb/s). In openSUSE with help of this forum I successfully installed video drivers. But audio - I can’t.
I’m novice in linux. Please, help me! Thank you in advance.
Further you can see some add-on information about my current system configuration:

Station:/ # cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound

options snd slots=snd-hda-intel
options snd-hda-intel model=3stack-dig

5Dex._Js25DV48WC:SBx00 Azalia

alias sndcurrent -card-0 snd-hda-intel

Station:/ # uname -a
Linux Station 2.6.25.5-1.1-pae #1 SMP 2008-06-07 01:55:22 +0200 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

Station:/ # rpm -qa | grep alsa
alsa-tools-1.0.16-47.1
alsa-firmware-1.0.16-24.1
alsa-oss-1.0.15-48.1
alsa-1.0.16-39.1
alsa-utils-1.0.16-35.1
alsa-plugins-pulse-1.0.16-57.1
alsa-docs-1.0.16-39.1
kalsatools-1.5.0-544.1
alsa-driver-kmp-pae-1.0.16.20080818_2.6.25.5_1.1-1.1
alsa-tools-gui-1.0.16-47.1
alsa-plugins-maemo-1.0.16-57.1
alsa-devel-1.0.16-39.1
alsa-tools-devel-1.0.16-47.1
alsa-driver-doc-1.0.16.20080817-2.1
alsa-plugins-1.0.16-57.1
alsa-plugins-jack-1.0.16-57.1
java-1_6_0-sun-alsa-1.6.0.u6-8.1
alsa-plugins-samplerate-1.0.16-57.1
FA_clalsadrv-1.1.0-136.1

Station:/ # rpm -qa | grep pulse
libpulse0-0.9.10-26.1
alsa-plugins-pulse-1.0.16-57.1

Station:/ # rpm -q libasound2
libasound2-1.0.16-39.1

OK, an ALC662.

I examined the alsa versions you posted. It appears you have messed up badly installing those. You have way too many alsa apps. You do not need that many. You have a mixed install of original alsa-1.0.16 with the new alsa 1.0.18 rc2 development versions. You need to fix this. I don’t have time now to try and sort out which alsa you should remove, … so for the moment lets just try to fix the versions. Hence I recommend you send the following 6 zypper commands in sequence. First with your computer connected to the internet, open a konsole and type “su” (no quotes) and enter root password when prompted. Then copy and paste (and send in this sequence):

zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/multimedia:/audio/openSUSE_11.0/ multimedia1
zypper install alsa alsa-utils alsa-tools alsa-tools-devel alsa-plugins-samplerate alsa-plugins-maemo alsa-tools-gui alsa-plugins-pulse alsa-plugins-jack alsa-plugins alsa-devel alsa-oss alsa-firmware alsa-docs libasound2
zypper rr multimedia1
zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/multimedia:/audio:/KMP/openSUSE_11.0/ multimedia2
zypper install alsa-driver-kmp-pae
zypper rr multimedia2

Then restart your computer. Test your sound. I suspect it will not work because your /etc/modprobe.d/sound file may be wrong.

The last line (starting with “alias” in this /etc/modprobe.d/sound file looks bad wrt syntax. Did you make a mistake copying and pasting this?

In any case, I recommend you run “su -c alsaconf” and test your sound. I suspect it will not work, but it will re-write your /etc/modprobe.d/sound file. Then re-add the line:
options snd-hda-intel model=3stack-dig to the end of the file and restart your alsa sound drivers with the following in a konsole:
su -c ‘rcalsasound restart’.
Test your sound with the sound test in a konsole:
speaker-test -Dplug:front -c2 -l5 -twav
Note that is case sensitive, so I recommend you copy and paste the line. Also test the line in a konsole with root permissions.

If that does not work, in the newly created file /etc/modprobe.d/sound , change the line options snd-hda-intel model=3stack-dig to options snd-hda-intel model=auto and restart your alsa sound drivers with the following in a konsole:
su -c ‘rcalsasound restart’.
Test your sound with the sound test in a konsole:
speaker-test -Dplug:front -c2 -l5 -twav
Note that is case sensitive, so I recommend you copy and paste the line. Also test the line in a konsole with root permissions.

If the above does not work, then with your computer connected to the internet, please copy and paste the following command for a diagnostic script into a konsole:

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

when prompted for a password enter your root password. Please accurate provide the number of jacks/plugs. For example on my PC I have 3 audio i/o jacks (line-in, line-out, mic) … That script will provide a URL. Please paste the URL it provides here.

Also, after the zypper commands, so I can see how successful the zypper commands were, please type:
rpm -qa | grep alsa
and post here the output.

And finally, restart your pc (again) and after a fresh restart, type:
dmesg > dmesg.txt
and open up the file “dmesg.txt” with a text editor and copy and paste the contents of the file “dmesg.txt” to general pastebin - simplified internet collaboration , submit it, and post the URL it provides here.

Hi, oldcpu!

I have updated my alsa packages and rebooted my pc. After this I have a sound !!! And even normal, not low, sound !!! I’m very glad and thank you, oldcpu, for help to me!!! Because I wasted a lot of time (3 days!) for the solving this problem.

Here my current configuration:

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

options snd slots=snd-hda-intel
options snd-hda-intel model=3stack-dig

5Dex._Js25DV48WC:SBx00 Azalia

alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel

Station:~ # uname -a
Linux Station 2.6.25.5-1.1-pae #1 SMP 2008-06-07 01:55:22 +0200 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

Station:~ # rpm -qa | grep alsa
alsa-oss-1.0.17.git20080715-2.8
alsa-firmware-1.0.16-24.1
alsa-plugins-samplerate-1.0.17.git20080819-1.1
kalsatools-1.5.0-544.1
alsa-1.0.17.git20080816-1.1
alsa-devel-1.0.17.git20080816-1.1
alsa-plugins-jack-1.0.17.git20080819-1.1
alsa-tools-gui-1.0.17.git20080715-1.11
alsa-driver-kmp-pae-1.0.16.20080818_2.6.25.5_1.1-1.1
alsa-tools-1.0.17.git20080715-1.11
alsa-utils-1.0.17.git20080819-1.1
alsa-plugins-maemo-1.0.17.git20080819-1.1
FA_clalsadrv-1.2.2-0.pm.3
alsa-docs-1.0.17.git20080816-1.1
alsa-driver-doc-1.0.16.20080817-2.1
alsa-tools-devel-1.0.17.git20080715-1.11
alsa-plugins-pulse-1.0.17.git20080819-1.1
java-1_6_0-sun-alsa-1.6.0.u6-8.1
alsa-plugins-1.0.17.git20080819-1.1

Station:~ # rpm -qa | grep pulse
alsa-plugins-pulse-1.0.17.git20080819-1.1
libpulse0-0.9.11-2.2

Station:~ # rpm -q libasound2
libasound2-1.0.17.git20080816-1.1

Congratulations on getting sound back, and thank you for showing me your final configuration. Learning how other’s succeed is part of the way in which I learn, and I appreciate your sharing that information. Thanks.