Hello…
I’m having problem in finding the corect driver for my openSUSE 11.0 for my system. I’m using ASUS M2N-E SLI motherboard and I’m using the onboard sound card. Where can I find my driver and how to install it?
Thanx 
Hello !
Usually, the drivers are included with opensuse, the are no such thing as "*.exe driver, for example.
Now, sometimes, some hardware don’t work out of the box.
Could you be more specific on what doesn’t work?
If everything works, it means that your machine is supported, and that all the necessaery drivers are installed et fully loaded
Bye !
Try working your way through the openSUSE audio troubleshooting guide:
openSUSE AudioTroubleshooting -
If that does not work for you, please provide us more information (for example, which openSUSE version are you using?). … Anyway, please paste here:
a. the output URL(s) generated by running the two diagnostic scripts in the audio troubleshooting guide: Scripts_to_run_to_obtain_detailed_information
b. the output of typing the following commands in a terminal/xterm/konsole:
rpm -qa | grep alsa
rpm -qa | grep pulse
rpm -q libasound2
uname -a
cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound
to get a better top level view of openSUSE linux, it might also be worth your while to review the openSUSE concepts page:
Concepts - openSUSE
I’m using openSUSE 11.0 32Bit now but before this, I’m using openSUSE 10.3 64Bit on my machine before this. My machine motherboard is ASUS M2N-E SLI, with 1.5 GB RAM, AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+. With the old openSUSE 10.3 64Bit my sound problem solve by choosing Generic sound card vendor using USB audio but why this kind of method can’t solve my problem with openSUSE 11.0 32Bit. Is it because I’m using diferent kind of installer, or is it because I’ve download the wrong type of installer for my machine? For your guys information, I’m using the 32Bit installer because my friend here inform me that 32Bit installer can run stablely on my 64Bit machine… or… my friend was wrong… and I’m so dumb to folow his word… 
I have the same motherboard on my desktop. If memory serves, it is a C-Media card that isn’t supported in Linux. I remember using the USB Audio option in 10.3, but when I went to surround sound, and the USB Audio didn’t work with that so I bit the bullet and purchased a cheap soundblaster card from walmart.
However, I’m not on the desktop at the moment, so I can’t verify this, but I do have my Monitor speakers hooked up to the onboard sound, and if I switch to that card, it does work. I’ll get back to you and try to see what I can do to help. This is on 11.0 so it may help your situation.
Oh, another thing. I went with 32bit on that motherboard, and an AMD 64 x2 5000+ and it runs just fine, so he fact you are running 32bit shouldn’t be an issue. I don’t know if this still remains true, but people seem to still prefer 32bit over 64.
Edit: Just checked in YaST under hardware > sound and I added the card by manually selecting Generic > USB Audio, and it played a test sound through my monitor speakers. I did a little bit more messing around for you, but I couldn’t figure out why KDE apps wont use the card. When I switched KMix over to it, the PCM volume was all the way down, so you may want to check that.
My best guess as to why KDE apps wont use the onboard sound for me is probably because I have two cards, so outside of verifying that the USB Audio driver does work for our card in 11, I don’t know how much more help I can be.
There are differences between how openSUSE-10.3 handles sound and openSUSE-11.0. I think most of us are all still trying to come to grips with those differences. In order to help you get your sound running, it would help if you provide the information asked in my above post.
If you can not figure out how to download and run the diagnostic scripts, then simply copy and paste the following command into a konsole with regular user permissions. It will run the script, and give you a URL when it is complete. Please post that URL here (plus the other information requested in my above post).
wget -O alsa-info.sh http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-info.sh && bash alsa-info.sh
hey… after I follow your suggestion it show me this web site. So this is what you want?
Thanks, that told me a few things that might help lead to a solution. I can see you are using “USB-Audio”. Surfing for that on the alsa site, I obtained more than 100 ‘hits’, …but the last few indicated there is an update for “USB-Audio” between 1.0.16 and 1.0.17RC3 of alsa. But lets try to fix this without updating alsa.
The script output suggests to me that it could be a mixer problem. But before we investigate your mixer, can you please ensure you have installed “alsa-firmware”. If not, please do so now, then restart and try again to setup your PC.
I find it easier to examine a user’s mixer setup by looking at the output of the “tsalsa” diagnostic script. So if installing alsa-firmware does not help, can you run (copy and paste) the following in an xterm/konsole and provide the URL it gives (also enter root password when prompted and type “NO” for the answer to any question you do not understand):
su -c 'wget -O tsalsa wget http://home.cfl.rr.com/infofiles/tsalsa && bash tsalsa'
About alsa-firmware, I’ve installed it after you ask me to do that. OK, one part is finish. Another thing is the web site is
tsalsa.txt - nopaste.com (beta)
Hey man… keep helping me to help you on solving my problem step by step like this with out any confusing word. It will be better if you talk to me like I’m an ameture…
I’m one of them… heheh
Please, can you test for sound, by copying and pasting the following 2-channel sound test:
speaker-test -c2 -Ddefault -l5 -twav
does it give any sound? You can stop that speaker-test by pressing <CTRL><C>
Also, if that doesn’twork, you could try:
7.1 channel surround:
speaker-test -Dplug:surround71 -c8 -l5 -twav
5.1 channel surround:
speaker-test -Dplug:surround51 -c6 -l5 -twav
4 channel surround:
speaker-test -Dplug:surround40 -c4 -l5 -twav
2 channel:
speaker-test -Dplug:front -c2 -l5 -twav
the -l5 makes it play the voice 5 times, change the number to anything reasonable. If you leave this out it repeats till you close the terminal or kill it with <CTRL><C>.
Do any of those provide sound? Note you may need to adjust your mixer while they are playing.
I’m sorry but none of your test play any sound on my machine. Is it posible that it will play on GNOME and KDE.
I don’t know if this help for you I have a ASUS M2N SLI Deluxe I did install OpenSuse 11 64 bits and Sound work great no problem so far. Only problem is the Volume when I try to raise the volume in loud it doesn’t do the all power. still working with that problem if any one has any idea appreciate any help.
PS:
Can you help out a bit here, as opposed to just saying “none of your test play any sound” ? … If there were specific feedback/errors when trying those commands, and if you don’t pass on what they are, it really limits what I can suggest. I can’t see (over the internet) what you see on your PC. I may not be able to help anyway, but we can at least TRY to improve the odds. Did the 2-channel give any error messages?
I’m still waiting for this.
Never mind just fix the volume problem using the mixer works perfect now OpenSuse 11.0 x64
Please ensure your PCM volume levels are moved up to about 75%.
I’m sorry for not sending you the error message… it’s not gonna happen again… O.K. this is the 2-channel sound test:
speaker-test -c2 -Ddefault -l5 -twav
speaker-test 1.0.16
Playback device is default
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 2 channels
WAV file(s)
Rate set to 48000Hz (requested 48000Hz)
Buffer size range from 128 to 1048576
Period size range from 64 to 262144
Using max buffer size 1048576
Periods = 4
was set period_size = 262144
was set buffer_size = 1048576
*** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to create stream.
Unable to set hw params for playback: Input/output error
Setting of hwparams failed: Input/output error
This one from 7.1 channel surround:
speaker-test 1.0.16
Playback device is plug: surround71
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 8 channels
WAV file(s)
ALSA lib confmisc.c:768: (parse_card) cannot find card ‘0’
ALSA lib conf.c: 3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c: 392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:3513: (_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:3513: (_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:3985: (snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2144: (snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM surround71
Playback open error: -2,No such file or directory
This one from 5.1 channel surround:
speaker-test 1.0.16
Playback device is plug: surround51
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 6 channels
WAV file(s)
ALSA lib confmisc.c :768: (parse_card) cannot find card ‘0’
ALSA lib conf.c : 3513 : (_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c : 392 : (snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:3513: (_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c: 1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:3513: (_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:3985: (snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2144: (snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM surround51
Playback open error: -2,No such file or directory