No Sound on 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller

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Pc is Dell E520
I was using suse 10.1 & was getting sound.
Just download & installed Open Suse 11.1 with KDE, now “NO SOUND”

tried this:
http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=eb...40ac7d0019bd59

and get

upload=true&script=true&cardinfo= │─
│ !!################################ │
│ !!ALSA Information Script v 0.4.52 │
│ !!################################ │
│ │
│ !!Script ran on: Fri Jan 2 23:53:34 EST 2009 │
│ │
│ │
│ !!Linux Distribution │
│ !!------------------ │
│ │
│ Welcome to openSUSE 11.1 - Kernel \r (\l). openSUSE 11.1 (x86_64) LSB_VERSION="core-2.0-noarch:core-3.2 │
│ │
│ │
│ !!Kernel Information │
│ !!------------------ │
│ │
│ Kernel release: 2.6.27.7-9-default │
│ Operating System: GNU/Linux │
│ Architecture: x86_64 │
│ Processor: x86_64 │
│ SMP Enabled: Yes │
│ │
│ │
│ !!ALSA Version │
├────↓(+)───────────────────────────────────────── ────────────────────────────────────────────────2% ──────┤

Can anyone help !!!

2

There is a multimedia forum that deals with sound problems, as well as other multimedia problems.
This thread comes from there, it may help. /t/another-sound-problem/16907/1

3

rahat09, please pay more attention to what you post. That URL is no good.

In the case of openSUSE-11.1, it has alsa-1.0.18a which should support your Dell E520. I note this from the ALSA-Configuration.txt file for 1.0.18a of alsa where it has a list of various model options. For the STAC9227/9228/9229/927x hardware audio codec’s here is the option list from that file:

	STAC9227/9228/9229/927x
	  ref		Reference board
	  3stack	D965 3stack
	  5stack	D965 5stack + SPDIF
	  dell-3stack	Dell Dimension E520
	  dell-bios	Fixes with Dell BIOS setup

and that suggests to me if yhou add the following line to the front of your /etc/modprobe.d/sound file, your sound should work:options snd-hda-intel model=dell-3stacksave the change, and restart your PC. Then test you audio, being careful to check your mixer and move up both master volume and PCM volume. I recommend the following as a speaker-test to see if you sound works (copy and paste it into a konsole):
speaker-test -c2 -l5 -twav

4

Thanks a lot.
Its really like magic, its working fine now.

I just did 2 things:
1) update /etc/modprobe.d/sound file as you told above
2) uninstall pulseaudio related stuffs already installed (which are showing no dependancy problems) and reinstalled all pulseaudio stuffs (which are showing no dependancy problems).

May be step 2 wasn’t necessary, but I just did.
And getting sound!!!

5

Great ! Congratulations!

Thanks for sharing your solution.

6

Experiencing new problem!!
if I inject headphone, then sounds gone after few seconds.
Even I can’t hear anything on speaker(after disconnecting headphone jack).

7

Check carefully to ensure it is not a mixer issue. Note when you insert headphones, the speaker volume is supposed to stop, and sound is only supposed to come out of the headphones. However when you remove the headphones, the sound should come back to the speakers. Be certain you check/compare the mixer settings when you have sound, and when you do not.

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I have checked audio mixture, its not a mixure issue.
When I plug the headphone, volume start reducing gradually over headphone and finally NO SOUND. At that point if remove headphone “NO SOUND” on speaker as well.

Then on konsole (as super user) if I use:

rcalsasound restart

example:

linux-0eb2:/home/user1 # rcalsasound restart
Shutting down sound driver done
Starting sound driver: hda-intel done
linux-0eb2:/home/user1 #

sounds come back on speakers.

But if I inject headphone again, same thing happen.

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I recommend you raise a bug on openSUSE and on alsa, describing this problem, providing detailed information on your setup:

  • hardware vendor, product and model names,
  • kernel version and ALSA driver version
  • alsa-info.sh output; run with --no-upload option.
  • openSUSE version
  • description of problem

Write the bug report on: