hi , i’m new user of opensuse11.0 , I’m a woman I’m not well in English and I’m not good in computers etc, so please , try to answer on my question in very simple language .
I haven’t got sound mixer on my computer . I’ve got laptop dell latitude d600 (sound card : Sigmatel 9750 AC97) , and Yast found its sound card as intel’s 82801DB ICH4 . I try to configure it on the chipset AC97 as intel’s ICH6 and later ICH7. So , I need drivers
Could you tell me , where can I find drivers for this laptop or this sound card ? And how can I install it ?
On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 16:56 +0000, womanshouldcreatecomputer wrote:
> hi , i’m new user of opensuse11.0 , I’m a woman I’m not well in English
> and I’m not good in computers etc, so please , try to answer on my
> question in very simple language .
> I haven’t got sound mixer on my computer . I’ve got laptop dell
> latitude d600 (sound card : Sigmatel 9750 AC97) , and Yast found its
> sound card as intel’s 82801DB ICH4 . I try to configure it on the
> chipset AC97 as intel’s ICH6 and later ICH7. So , I need drivers
> Could you tell me , where can I find drivers for this laptop or this
> sound card ? And how can I install it ?
Become root and try running alsaconf from the command line and
see if that doesn’t fix things up.
I’ve used the D600 in the past (there’s one here at my desk right now),
I don’t recall any major issues.
mmm , there is a problem a strange window appeared when i did it : “No supported PnP or PCI card found . Would you like to probe legacy ISA sound cards/chips?” , I say Ok , and another window appeared after that : "Probing legacy ISA might make your system unstable " .I don’t know what does it mean i practise , so I didn’t do anything . It was second attempt . In first , the program found PnP card and 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) .
You could try working your way through the openSUSE audio troubleshooting guide:
SDB:AudioTroubleshooting - openSUSE
Note, when testing if you have sound, please copy and paste the following speaker-test into a Gnome terminal or a kde konsole:
speaker-test -Dplug:front -c2 -l5 -twav
Note Linux is case sensitive, and “D” is not the same as “d”. To stop the above test, while the konsole/xterm has the mouse focus, press <CTRL><C> on the keyboard. Note you should check your mixer settings (kmix if using KDE, and alsamixer if using Gnome) to ensure that PCM and Master Volume are set around 95%. Once you have basic sound established you can back off to lower volume levels. Note the test for surround sound is different.
If that test yields errors (and its not uncommon to get errors there), try instead this more simple test: speaker-test -c2 -l5 -twavYou should hear a female voice saying ‘FRONT LEFT’, ‘FRONT RIGHT’ five times. Its quite common that one of those speaker tests will work and one will NOT work, so don’t be distressed if that is the case. IF that test gives sound, stop now, post that the sound test gives sound, and we will look at other possible causes for your applications not giving you the sound you want (such as missing codecs, using the wrong packaged version … etc … ).
Try those speaker-tests as both a regular user, and with root permissions. If you have a headset, try with your headset plugged in, and also with your headset not plugged in (for speakers).
Assuming still no sound, can you provide more very detailed information so a good recommendation can be given? If using openSUSE-11.0, you can do that, with your laptop connected to the internet, by opening a gnome-terminal or a kde konsole and copy and paste the following :
wget -O alsa-info.sh http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-info.sh && bash alsa-info.sh
that will run a diagnostic script and post the output to a web site on the Internet. It will give you the URL of the web site. Please post that URL here. JUST the URL.
Also, 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… with that information I may be able to make a recommendation (as opposed to a guess).