after update from opsenSUSE 10.3 (here was all fine) to version 11 I have no sound anymore and I have no idea why. I already upgrade to the unstable alsa-driver but it don’t work
Yes I have, but one problem is that I don’t have a directory
/proc/asound/card0/ so the command head -n 1 /proc/asound/card0/codec to find out which soundchip is in use do not work.
You don’t say if you’re using kde4 or 3.5. Check the kmixer channels, make sure they’re all on.
You can do:
lsof | grep snd
It’ll tell you what’s using the sound card. You can kill the process(es) to free the card. Also, pulse audio is still not perfect, so you might want to remove all references to it and rerun alsaconf.
I use kde 3, and I don’t have any possibilities to set up anything in the mixer. kmix shows ony an empty dialog, so it is not only a set to mute problem.
I have upgraded my system, it was not a new install.
I try to set up the sound card over yast, but yast says that I have a problem with the mode or IRQ. befor that I rebooted my system
I also try alsaconf -> throws no errors but the kmix is also empty afterwords
lsof | grep snd did not show any
I have a acer aspire 5650 laptop and I use 10.0 to 10.3 with some problems with the card reader but never with the soundcard
This is one of the reasons I really dislike it when users upgrade their system. These sorts of things are not supposed to happen, … but they do.
Please HOW did you go about upgrading your system? Did you do it via CD/DVD, or did you do it by downloading over the web.
If you did it via CD/DVD, then please check the md5sum like I requested. If you did it by other method, then I don’t think I can help. You could have a mix of configuration files, and a mix of libraries, and I don’t know what else, that is breaking your sound. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, this is one of the reasons I really dislike it when users upgrade their system.
openSUSE-11.0 is the fastest of the openSUSE’s since I can remember, to clean install from CD/DVD. IMHO you will spend more time chasing this problem, than you will lose installing (unless you have custom databases and custom compiled applications scattered through /usr and /opt and /var and other locations).
Well, I already think about a new install, but if you comment correctly it will take a lot time to set up the system as it was before.
I upgrade the system so early cause of the card reader which will work now with the aktual kernel…
Use the same sound card can not get it working in suse 10.3 even with all the advises found on suse web site . It did work with suse 9.3
The point is Ich7 is a quit difficult sound card it vary a lot
there was a lot off information about this sound card on the Intel website
The knew the problems but during my search there was not yet a fix
And now using suse 11. kde4.04 beside the problem mentioned in my thread it works.
Suse 11. was a clean install I always do also
with my other distro
My humble opinion save /home and always do I clean install
I just wanted to mention this. I had the same symptoms using a very similar audio adapter (82801H (ICH8 Family)). This was not after an upgrade to 10.3 – this was a clean install of openSUSE 11.
The way I got it working was to remove ALL the packages that referenced Pulse. I don’t know if it was necessary to remove ALL – but after I did that and rebooted, sound worked fine.