Based on the rpms you have installed, and the kernel and openSUSE version that you have installed, I recommend you send the following zypper commands. First, I recommend you open a kde konsole or a gnome terminal and type “su” (no quotes - enter root password when prompted) and sequentially copy and paste the following 6 zypper commands, one at a time:
zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/multimedia:/audio/openSUSE_11.1/ multimedia
zypper install alsa alsa-utils alsa-plugins alsa-plugins-pulse alsa-oss-32bit alsa-oss alsa-tools alsa-firmware libasound2
zypper rr multimedia
zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/multimedia:/audio:/KMP/openSUSE_11.1/ multimedia
zypper install alsa-driver-kmp-default
zypper rr multimedia
and then restart your PC and test your sound.
I suspect sound will still not work. If that is the case, then you need to edit your /etc/modprobe.d/sound file, trying various model options that are associated with your hardware codec: IDT 92HD71B7X . The hd-audio-models.txt file gives the following list of various options:
STAC92HD71B*
============
ref Reference board
dell-m4-1 Dell desktops
dell-m4-2 Dell desktops
dell-m4-3 Dell desktops
hp-m4 HP dv laptops
You can try each of those in turn, one at a time. So lets try “hp-m4” first.
To do that, open your /etc/modprobe.d/sound file with root permissions to edit that file. You can do so with kde by typing: kdesu kwrite /etc/modprobe.d/sound and enter root pass word when prompted.
Under gnome type: gnomesu gedit /etc/modprobe.d/sound and enter root password when prompted.
Once the file is opened, change it such that it now looks like:
options snd slots=snd-hda-intel
options snd-hda-intel model=hp-m4
# u1Nb.nVqf9RDT4C3:82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
save the change, and then restart your alsa sound driver by typing in a konsole/terminal with regular permissions: **su -c ‘rcalsasound restart’ **and enter root password when prompted and restart your mixer after alsa restarts, and then test your sound.
options snd slots=snd-hda-intel
options snd-hda-intel model=hp-m4 enable_msi=1
# u1Nb.nVqf9RDT4C3:82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
save the change, and then restart your alsa sound driver by typing in a konsole/terminal with regular permissions: **su -c ‘rcalsasound restart’ **and restart your PC, and then test your sound.
If that does not work, try the other model options one at a time instead of hp-m4. ie in the /etc/modprobe.d/sound file replace “hp-m4” with “dell-m4-1”, save the change and restart your sound driver and mixer as noted above, and test your sound. You may wish to try each with and without “enable_msi=1”.
When testing your sound, try one of these sound tests. Typically in a nominal case one will work and the other will not work:
speaker-test -Dplug:front -c2 -l5 -twav
or
speaker-test -c2 -l5 -twavand if all is well you should hear a lady’s voice saying ‘FRONT LEFT’,‘FRONT RIGHT’ five times.
Note in all cases, you need to ensure for the test that PCM and master volume are up to about 95%. Backoff the volume levels to a lower level once you have sound established.
Roald