No sound - Realtek ALC882

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Hi!

I’m quite the linux newbie and I got some problems already fixed… except for the audio!

I have an ASUS P5W DH Deluxe motherboard with the Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01) audio onboard (which uses the REALTEK ALC882). I also have an X-fi card but as I understand that’s even worse to get working, so I’m going to stick with the Intel audio. :wink:

I’ve followed the Suse audio troubleshooting guide, and also tried to follow a couple of threads about the same problem on this forum, but I don’t know what I’m doing wrong… So I hope you can help me. :slight_smile:

I’m just going to copy/paste the info they asked for in the other threads.

The alsa-info: http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=152b3e666e12426e7c45879e3bca266e34db3a64


rpm -qa | grep alsa
alsa-tools-gui-1.0.18-1.16
alsa-1.0.19.git20090304-3.1
alsa-oss-32bit-1.0.17-1.37
alsa-plugins-1.0.18-6.13
alsa-plugins-samplerate-1.0.18-6.13
alsa-tools-1.0.19.git20090320-1.2
alsa-plugins-pulse-1.0.18-6.13
alsa-driver-kmp-default-1.0.19.20090405_2.6.27.19_3.2-1.1
alsa-plugins-jack-1.0.18-6.13
alsa-firmware-1.0.19.git20090317-1.1
alsa-oss-1.0.17-1.43
alsamixergui-0.9.0rc1-584.91
alsa-utils-1.0.19.git20090319-1.2

rpm -qa | grep pulse
pulseaudio-utils-0.9.12-9.5
pulseaudio-esound-compat-0.9.12-9.5
pulseaudio-module-x11-0.9.12-9.5
libpulse0-0.9.12-9.5
pulseaudio-0.9.12-9.5
pulseaudio-module-lirc-0.9.12-9.5
libpulse-browse0-0.9.12-9.5
libpulse-mainloop-glib0-0.9.12-9.5
alsa-plugins-pulse-1.0.18-6.13
pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-0.9.12-9.5
libpulsecore4-0.9.12-9.5
pulseaudio-module-zeroconf-0.9.12-9.5
pulseaudio-module-jack-0.9.12-9.5
libxine1-pulse-1.1.16.2-0.pm.2

rpm -q libasound2
libasound2-1.0.19.git20090304-3.1

uname -a
Linux linux-wcvf 2.6.27.19-3.2-default #1 SMP 2009-02-25 15:40:44 +0100 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound
options snd-hda-intel model=asus-a7m
options snd slots=snd-hda-intel
# u1Nb.zLt50faf8+F:82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel

Thank you already for reading, and any help is really appreciated! :shame:

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You have done well. IMHO your sound should be working.

The only thing that I can see that is possibly wrong is your edit to the /etc/modprobe.d/sound file.

That edit “asus-a7m” does not match the script which states you have applied “targa” , so I do not know how representative things are.

From those edits I assume you know of this model list from the HD-Audio-Models.txt file:

ALC882/885
==========
  3stack-dig	3-jack with SPDIF I/O
  6stack-dig	6-jack digital with SPDIF I/O
  arima		Arima W820Di1
  targa		Targa T8, MSI-1049 T8
  asus-a7j	ASUS A7J
  asus-a7m	ASUS A7M
  macpro	MacPro support
  mbp3		Macbook Pro rev3
  imac24	iMac 24'' with jack detection
  w2jc		ASUS W2JC
  auto		auto-config reading BIOS (default)

and you have applied them all one by one, saved the changed, and restarted alsa sound driver with su -c ‘rcalsasound restart’ after each attempt? And for the sound test I assume you used the two speaker-tests (both one at a time) from the troubleshooting guide? SDB:AudioTroubleshooting - openSUSE - speaker tests

You could take a look at your dmesg to see if that gives any hints. Do so immediately after a reboot by copying and pasting the following into a terminal or konsole:
dmesg > dmesg.txt && curl -F file=@dmesg.txt nopaste.com/a

If that gives no hints, then IMHO you are into bug writing territory. Submitting Bug Reports - openSUSE

Please be 100% certain you have your cables connected to the correct outputs.

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I had a feeling it was going to be something very stupid to solve this, but not that it was going to be that stupid… sigh

I still had my speakers hooked up to the x-fi panel… :sick: Sorry to have wasted your time with all the reading, but thank you very much for asking me about the cables! :slight_smile: