No sound, Kmix runs, but no effect and disappears

Hi,
My computer has an AMD A8-3850 CPU, with SUSE 12.1, KDE. It has no sound. When I open YaST/Sound Configuration. It shows two card model. One is ATI Technologies Inc. It is strange to me because ATI seems a video chip. The computer has an on-board chip:
Radeon™ HD 6550D processor-integrated graphics (Dual monitor capable)
The second card is AMD. With both selection, there is no sound when I select Other/Play Test Sound.

On the forum, somebody mention Kmix. When I run Kmix, the icon moves for a while, then disappears.

How to diagnose the problem? I want to install Skype. Skype can automatically diagnose the sound for me?

Thanks a lot.

Post result of

/sbin/lspci -nnk

Thank you very much. I post the message from your command.

BTW, I see “Realtek audio” device when the computer (which has double boot OS) in windows 7. But it is not shown in SUSE 12.1 (X64) YaST.

jeff@Jeff-PC:~> /sbin/lspci -nnk
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 12h Processor Root Complex [1022:1705]
Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 12h Processor Root Complex [1022:1705]
00:01.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Device [1002:9640]
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device [1462:7696]
Kernel driver in use: fglrx_pci
00:01.1 Audio device [0403]: ATI Technologies Inc Device [1002:1714]
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device [1462:7696]
Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
00:04.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 12h Processor Root Port [1022:1709]
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:10.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson USB XHCI Controller [1022:7812] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device [1462:7696]
Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd
00:10.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson USB XHCI Controller [1022:7812] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device [1462:7696]
Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd
00:11.0 SATA controller [0106]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson SATA Controller [IDE mode] [1022:7800] (rev 40)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device [1462:7696]
Kernel driver in use: ahci
00:12.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson USB OHCI Controller [1022:7807] (rev 11)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device [1462:7696]
Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
00:12.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson USB EHCI Controller [1022:7808] (rev 11)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device [1462:7696]
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
00:13.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson USB OHCI Controller [1022:7807] (rev 11)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device [1462:7696]
Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
00:13.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson USB EHCI Controller [1022:7808] (rev 11)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device [1462:7696]
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
00:14.0 SMBus [0c05]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson SMBus Controller [1022:780b] (rev 13)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device [1462:7696]
Kernel driver in use: piix4_smbus
00:14.1 IDE interface [0101]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson IDE Controller [1022:780c]
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device [1462:7696]
Kernel driver in use: pata_atiixp
00:14.2 Audio device [0403]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson Azalia Controller [1022:780d] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device [1462:d696]
Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
00:14.3 ISA bridge [0601]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson LPC Bridge [1022:780e] (rev 11)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device [1462:7696]
00:14.4 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson PCI Bridge [1022:780f] (rev 40)
00:14.5 USB Controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson USB OHCI Controller [1022:7809] (rev 11)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device [1462:7696]
Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
00:14.7 SD Host controller [0805]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson SD Flash Controller [1022:7806]
Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson SD Flash Controller [1022:7806]
Kernel driver in use: sdhci-pci
00:18.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 0 [1022:1700] (rev 43)
00:18.1 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 1 [1022:1701]
00:18.2 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 2 [1022:1702]
00:18.3 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 3 [1022:1703]
Kernel driver in use: k10temp
00:18.4 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 4 [1022:1704]
00:18.5 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 6 [1022:1718]
00:18.6 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 5 [1022:1716]
00:18.7 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 7 [1022:1719]
01:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller [10ec:8168] (rev 06)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device [1462:7696]
Kernel driver in use: r8169
02:05.0 Multimedia video controller [0400]: Conexant Systems, Inc. CX23418 Single-Chip MPEG-2 Encoder with Integrated Analog Video/Broadcast Audio Decoder [14f1:5b7a]
Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. Device [0070:7400]
Kernel driver in use: cx18
jeff@Jeff-PC:~>

00:14.2 Audio device [0403]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson Azalia Controller [1022:780d] (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device [1462:d696]
        Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel

Is your audio device.

I’m not sure the audio ref on this:

02:05.0 Multimedia video controller [0400]: Conexant Systems, Inc.  CX23418 Single-Chip MPEG-2 Encoder with Integrated Analog  Video/Broadcast Audio Decoder [14f1:5b7a]                                                                       
        Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. Device [0070:7400]                                                   
        Kernel driver in use: cx18

Is of any importance or use.

What I do know is that Azalia rings alarm bells. I’m no sound guru, but if you go here
Search - openSUSE.org
Search for azalia
You’ll see lots of results
Eg: http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/multimedia/401150-no-sound-rs780-azalia-controller-sbx00-azalia-intel-hda.html#post1904451
I’m not saying it the same as yours, it’s just an example.

You could do with @oldcpu to walk you through this IMO

As caf4926 noted, your PC has:

00:14.2 Audio device [0403]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson Azalia Controller [1022:780d] (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device [1462:d696]
        Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel

which appears to be your audio device.

and like caf4926, I don’t know the importance of this:


02:05.0 Multimedia video controller [0400]: Conexant Systems, Inc.  CX23418 Single-Chip MPEG-2 Encoder with Integrated Analog  Video/Broadcast Audio Decoder [14f1:5b7a]                                                                       
        Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. Device [0070:7400]                                                   
        Kernel driver in use: cx18

although the cx18 driver supports the cx23418 chip which is for IVTV and multimedia capturing. You ‘might’ be seeing that in YaST hardware-sound, but I don’t think so.

I also note this for your Video


00:01.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Device [1002:9640]
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device [1462:7696]
Kernel driver in use: fglrx_pci

where I note the 1002:9650 PCI-e device corresponds to a AMD HD 6550D. I also note that Radeon (AMD) graphic hardware device will often include HDMI audio.

Hence it could be that one of the ATI or AMD devices you see in YaST is your HDMI audio, which you likely are not using. And the other AMD/ATI device you see could be the device that is using the snd_hda_intel kernel audio driver.

I recommend you install the application ‘pulse audio volume control’ (pavucontrol) and run pavucontrol the 1st time you run any multimedia application and tune pulse audio to work for that application (being certain NOT to select the HDMI device, but rather select the regular audio device). I have some hints/examples on using pavucontrol here: Pulseaudio Basics for openSUSE with pavucontrol - Blogs - openSUSE Forums

Now if you still not succeed after that to get your sound working then I propose you provide more information by running a script that will give us detailed audio hardware/software information. You can do that, by running, with your PC connected to the Internet, the following command in a terminal as a regular user:


/usr/sbin/alsa-info.sh

and select the SHARE/UPLOAD option. When the script is complete, it will in the terminal give you a web/internet address where it has uploaded the audio information. Please post the web/internet address URL here so we can examine better your PCs audio configuration.

Hi,
This is a PC TV card device. I forgot to mention at first. Thanks a lot.

02:05.0 Multimedia video controller [0400]: Conexant Systems, Inc.  CX23418 Single-Chip MPEG-2 Encoder with Integrated Analog  Video/Broadcast Audio Decoder [14f1:5b7a]                                                                       
        Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. Device [0070:7400]                                                   
        Kernel driver in use: cx18