Hello,
I am using opensuse 11.2 KDE. I hear sound only in headphones but not in speakers of laptop COMPAQ presario 2700.
/etc/modprobe.d/50-sound.conf looks like this:
options snd slots=snd-intel8x0
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
Any ideea?
Thank you
Almost certain to be as simple as checking your mixer settings
I’ve tried all combinations, belive me. 
Right click
Select Show Mixer Window
Click Mixer button
Check you have them enabled and NOT muted and the volume sliders up at about 80%
If tuning your mixer does not help, then we will need more information in order to come up with suggestions. In such an unfortunate case (of speakers still not working) please provide the information requested in the multimedia stickie: Welcome to multimedia sub-area - openSUSE Forums i.e. …
… please post in this “multimedia” sub-forum, providing in your post the following information:
- provide the URLs (of a summary webpage) that are created by running the diagnostic script noted here:
SDB:AudioTroubleshooting - openSUSE - Script to run to obtain detailed information. On openSUSE-11.1 and newer that will ask you to run the script /usr/sbin/alsa-info.sh and after the script finishes it will give you a URL to pass to the support personnel. Please post here the output URL. Just the URL. You may need to run that script twice (the first time with root permissions to update in the /usr/sbin directory, and the second time to get the URL).- in a terminal, or xterm, or konsole, type: rpm -qa ‘alsa’ #and post output here
- in a terminal, or xterm, or konsole, type: rpm -qa ‘pulse’ #and post output here
- in a terminal, or xterm, or konsole, type: rpm -q libasound2 #and post output here
- in a terminal, or xterm, or konsole, type: uname -a #and post output here
- for openSUSE-11.1 or earlier, in a terminal, or xterm, or konsole, type: cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound #and post output here
- for openSUSE-11.2 or later, in a terminal, or xterm, or konsole, type: cat /etc/modprobe.d/50-sound.conf #and post output here
mixer not muted and 80% still no sound in speakers.
I get no URL only this:
Your ALSA information is located at
Please inform the person helping you.
regarding the others you can find below:
mitzasuse@linux-kc6v:~>rpm -qa ‘alsa’
alsa-utils-1.0.21-3.1.i586
alsa-oss-1.0.17-25.2.i586
alsa-1.0.21-3.2.i586
alsa-firmware-1.0.20-3.2.noarch
alsa-plugins-1.0.21-3.3.i586
mitzasuse@linux-kc6v:~> rpm -qa ‘pulse’
libxine1-pulse-1.1.16.1-7.6.i586
libpulse0-0.9.19-2.3.i586
mitzasuse@linux-kc6v:~> rpm -q libasound2
libasound2-1.0.21-3.2.i586
mitzasuse@linux-kc6v:~> uname -a
Linux linux-kc6v 2.6.31.12-0.1-default #1 SMP 2010-01-27 08:20:11 +0100 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
mitzasuse@linux-kc6v:~> cat /etc/modprobe.d/50-sound.conf
options snd slots=snd-intel8x0
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
regarding the scrips what shall I do? copy-paste here?
thank you
No, do not paste it here. The script, when complete, should give you a URL. Please be certain to select the “upload/share” option. It will give you a URL. Post the URL here.
If it does not give you a URL, then run the script again with the no-upload option
/usr/sbin/alsa-info.sh --no-upload
which will create the file /tmp/alsa-info.txt. Open that file with a text editor and paste it to PasteBin.be and select “dump” and it will give you a URL. Post here the URL.
Thanks. I note an AD1886 hardware audio codec in your Compaq Presario 2715EA, running a 32-bit openSUSE-11.2 with the 2.6.31.12-0.1-default kernel and the stock 1.0.20/1.0.21 version of the alsa sound driver.
Your mixer settings look ok. Possibly you could move them a bit higher (master mono from 71 to 95%) but with overall Master at 100% and PCM at 97% it looks fine.
I do not know why you are experiencing this.
You could try install the latest alsa. There is guidance here Alsa-update - openSUSE , except rather than use the zypper commands proposed in that guide, I recommend you add the repos, install from YaST (not from zypper) and then remove the repos. Then restart and test.
Now if that does not work …
The HD-Audio.txt file for 1.0.21a of alsa has this to say:
Speaker and Headphone Output
One of the most frequent (and obvious) bugs with HD-audio is the silent output from either or both of a built-in speaker and a headphone jack. In general, you should try a headphone output at first. A speaker output often requires more additional controls like the external amplifier bits. Thus a headphone output has a slightly better chance. Before making a bug report, double-check whether the mixer is set up correctly. The recent version of snd-hda-intel driver provides mostly "Master" volume control as well as "Front" volume (where Front indicates the front-channels). In addition, there can be individual "Headphone" and "Speaker" controls. Ditto for the speaker output. There can be "External Amplifier" switch on some codecs. Turn on this if present. Another related problem is the automatic mute of speaker output by headphone plugging. This feature is implemented in most cases, but not on every preset model or codec-support code.
You could check the content of the dmesg output after a fresh reboot via “dmesg > dmesgoutput.txt” (as a regular user in /home/yourusername ) and then look at dmesgoutput.txt in a text edit. … but I don’t think in this case it would give me anything that I would understand.
I recommend you write a bug report on openSUSE-11.2. Guidance is here: Submitting Bug Reports - openSUSE
When submitting the bug report, write it against component “sound”. You need to attach the diagnostic script output to the bug report. So run it via:
/usr/sbin/alsa-info.sh --no-upload
and attach the file /tmp/alsa-info.txt to the bug report. Do not bother referencing this thread as the alsa developer will refuse to read it. Instead include all relevant information in your bug report.
The person who will action the bug report is an alsa developer (in addition to being an openSUSE sound packager) and if anyone can sort this, they can.
I understand. I will try. Thank you very much.
I have submitted the bug at http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=580792
Still no success, but I noticed that randomly I hear the log off sound through laptop speakers when I restart/shutdown. Not at every log off. Maybe some program is blocking the sound…Any idea?
If a program blocks the sound, it will do do for both headphones and speakers, but you claim it only blocks sound for speakers (and not headphones) and hence I do not see that being an application program.
Did you check your desktop settings to see if you have anything inappropriate set there (I very rarely touch my desktop multimedia settings). I can’t help with such a check, but I have read of users who messed up their desktop settings.
I have checked desktop settings, all seems ok. You will laugh but let me tell you how it has been fixed for the moment…by accident…
I put computer to Suspend2disk and when I resume it I forgot to plug in the A/C cable and was running on batteries. I have sound in speakers. If I restart it, the sound doesn’t work anymore but if I put suspend2disk again and start only to batteries until it enters X sound ok. Strange. After that I can plug in the A/C and still have sound.
Any ideea why it does this?
I recommend you add that extra tidbit of information to the bug report.
I have a similar problem. I can hear the logon and logoff sound from my headphones. When I remove them, no sound from the speakers. From configure channel in Kmix, there only four checkboxes (Master, PCM, IEC958 and Capture) and all are unchecked. I believe there should be more than four checkboxes (front, speaker, etc.). I also hear the test sound from the headphones but not from the speakers.
Will appreciate any suggestions.
Missing or lost sound in Windows
SoundVerify software volume control settings
First, verify you see a small sound icon Windows XP sound icon or Windows Vista sound icon in the Windows notification area, also known as Systray (bottom right-hand corner of the Windows Desktop). If this icon is missing, follow the steps below. If you see this icon, skip to next section.
Windows 8
Open the Control Panel
Click the “Taskbar” icon.
On the “Taskbar” tab, click the “Customize” button next to “Notification area”.
Scroll down in the list until you see the “Volume” option and speaker icon. On the right side, in the drop-down list, make sure “Show icon and notifications” is selected. If it is not, select this option.
If the drop-down list is grayed out, uncheck the box for “Always show all icons and notifications on the taskbar” to allow you to change the drop-down list selection.
If you changed the selection in the drop-down list, click OK in that window and the Taskbar Properties window and close out of the Control Panel.
Windows Vista or 7
Open the Control Panel
Click the “Taskbar and Start Menu” icon.
On the “Taskbar” tab, in the “Notification area” section, click the “Customize” button.
Scroll down in the list until you see the “Volume” option and speaker icon. On the right side, in the drop-down list, make sure “Show icon and notifications” is selected. If it is not, select this option.
If the drop-down list is grayed out, uncheck the box for “Always show all icons and notifications on the taskbar” to allow you to change the drop-down list selection.
If you changed the selection in the drop-down list, click OK in that window and the “Taskbar and Start Menu Properties” window and close out of the Control Panel.
http://www.deskdecode.com/how-to-fix-no-sound-problem-laptop-desktop-computer/
On 2015-09-01 21:36, anjubeti wrote:
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> Missing or lost sound in Windows
Didn’t you notice that this is not a Windows forum, that it is a Linux
forum?
And that the reported problem was five years ago?
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” (Minas Tirith))