Hi to all.
I’m new on this board.
It’s many years since I’m using SuSE and openSuSE but it’s 2 months that I’m having trouble with nVidia drivers!!!
I’ve a HTPC in my leaving room with an ABIT mobo AN-2MHD with integrated audio (ALC888) and video (nVidia GeForce 7050PV/nForce 630a).
I did a fresh intall of 11.1 and then I installed the nvidia repo to install the G02 drivers and kernel.
Untill that, I had NO audio via vga and YES audio via HDMI (but via 3.5 jack, NO HDMI!!!).
With 180.22 nvidia drivers installed I missed audio anymore!!!
What can I do?
Here I post the output of alsa-info: http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=f47b95ca6f4afe31b04915f5cac240f51fdb6a50
Here is instead a previously tsalsa past: http://nopaste.com/p/ar3x2AAih
I did not reply, because what you stated about audio being tied to your nvidia driver made no sense to me. Hence I did not see the point in replying as you seemed so certain you wished to pursue an investigation along those lines.
I think you should question your belief that the audio is connected to the video driver. In my opinion it is not connected, and some other unknown reason is the root cause of your audio problem. I also do not know anything about HDMI, so I can not help you there with respect to your audio.
But if you wish to check your basic audio, without that preconceived idea for the cause of your audio problem, then for basic audio, try working your way thru the openSUSE audio troubleshooting guide: SDB:AudioTroubleshooting - openSUSE
Ensure you moved both master and PCM volume controls up in your mixer to 95% when testing sound. After you have confirmed basic sound you can move those down to a lower level to remove distortion.
Please note that to determine if you have sound, please copy and paste the following speaker-test into a Gnome terminal or a kde konsole: speaker-test -c2 -l5 -twavand if that does not work, try the following:
speaker-test -Dplug:front -c2 -l5 -twav Also try both with root permissions if they don’t work with regular user permissions.
In either case, you should hear a female voice saying ‘FRONT LEFT’, ‘FRONT RIGHT’ five times. If you hear that voice, then you likely have an application or a codec problem. Post if that is the case, and the advice then will be different.
If you have no success with the audio troubleshooting guide, then more information is needed in order to make a recommendation … So can you provide more very detailed information so a good recommendation can be given? So please copy and paste the following commands one line at a time into a gnome-terminal or a konsole and post here the output: rpm -qa | grep alsa
rpm -qa | grep pulse
rpm -q libasound2
uname -a
cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound
Thanks for reply oldpc.
I’m new with audio problem and they seems to be related to nvidia driver.
No more info about that.
I’ve tried yet speaker-test -Dplug:front -c2 -l5 -twav and the other one with no success.
My alsa-info output is here: http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=f47b95ca6f4afe31b04915f5cac240f51fdb6a50
This evening, if it’ll be possible, I’ll post you here results of the:
rpm -qa | grep alsa
rpm -qa | grep pulse
rpm -q libasound2
uname -a
cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound
At the moment, I removed 180.22 nvidia driver and loaded vesa frambuffer. Magically audio came up!!!
What I know, is that ALSA lets audio system play.
So I upgraded ALSA to 1.0.19 but nothing… have a look to alsa-info posted upon.
Probably something went wrong.
Your PC has an ALC888. Its possible the alsa autoprobe failed upon boot, and if you applied a custom model option you could have been able to get sound to work. (or restarted alsa (a second time) after boot , as noted below)
Make certain you provide a script version that is consistent with your alsa version.
Providing a script for version 1.0.17/1.0.18 of alsa is no good if you provide a list of installed rpms that suggest 1.0.19 of alsa. I need a consistent configuraiton to provide an assessment.
Did you check your dmesg to see if the nvidia driver loading was interfering with the alsa driver loading? Did you try to restart your sound with:
**su -c ‘rcalsasound restart’**enter root password when prompted for a password.
dmesg before reinstalling 180.22 nvidia driver (audio works but not with the speaker-test -c2 -l5 -twav / speaker-test -Dplug:front -c2 -l5 -twava, mixer volumes ok for PCM/Master/Sorround/Line/Front):
OK, this appears wrong. You are missing the driver !! that goes with those. When one updates to the “git” versions, one also needs alsa-driver-kmp-ones-kernel-version. … ie in your case, you also need alsa-driver-kmp-pae. With out that, its extermely unlikely your sound will work. So install alsa-driver-kmp-pae rpm. You can do that, with root permissions in a gnome terminal or kde konsole with the following 3 commands, sent in sequence, one at a time:
zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/multimedia:/audio:/KMP/openSUSE_11.1/ multimedia1
zypper install alsa-driver-kmp-pae
zypper rr multimedia1
and then restart your pc and test your sound. But it may also not work because you may have a problem with your /etc/modprobe.d/sound file.
But I can’t tell. Did you have the # in front of 3staack-6ch-intel (commenting out that line) when you booted ?
I note the following as the ALC888 options list (from the HD-Audio-Models.txt file for 1.0.19 of alsa):
ALC883/888
==========
3stack-dig 3-jack with SPDIF I/O
6stack-dig 6-jack digital with SPDIF I/O
3stack-6ch 3-jack 6-channel
3stack-6ch-dig 3-jack 6-channel with SPDIF I/O
6stack-dig-demo 6-jack digital for Intel demo board
acer Acer laptops (Travelmate 3012WTMi, Aspire 5600, etc)
acer-aspire Acer Aspire 9810
acer-aspire-4930g Acer Aspire 4930G
medion Medion Laptops
medion-md2 Medion MD2
targa-dig Targa/MSI
targa-2ch-dig Targs/MSI with 2-channel
laptop-eapd 3-jack with SPDIF I/O and EAPD (Clevo M540JE, M550JE)
lenovo-101e Lenovo 101E
lenovo-nb0763 Lenovo NB0763
lenovo-ms7195-dig Lenovo MS7195
lenovo-sky Lenovo Sky
haier-w66 Haier W66
3stack-hp HP machines with 3stack (Lucknow, Samba boards)
6stack-dell Dell machines with 6stack (Inspiron 530)
mitac Mitac 8252D
clevo-m720 Clevo M720 laptop series
fujitsu-pi2515 Fujitsu AMILO Pi2515
fujitsu-xa3530 Fujitsu AMILO XA3530
3stack-6ch-intel Intel DG33* boards
auto auto-config reading BIOS (default)
Did you try options other than “3stac-6ch-intel” ? … Its also possible by not having alsa-driver-kmp-pae installed, your model option was not recognized.
You can restart each time with: su -c ‘rcalsasound restart’
when testing your sound, use the speaker-test, and try as both a regular user and also with root permissions. And check your mixer carefully each time.