Side note; I really enjoyed the help with my printer, I will apply those suggestions soon and respond with results.
I have an Asus K53E-SIN5 and onboard is RealTek Audo… I noticed in YaST that my audio was shown as Intel. Is there a driver for OpenSUSE v12.2 Gnome x64 that will allow me to install my audio properly? It works out of the box… No audio issues at all, but it doesn’t sound very well to me. Flat audio, not very rich in sound at all. Also if there is a proper driver for this, what about a system equalizer? My RealTek driver from Asus installs a sound enhancement tool alongside the driver under Windows… Thanks!
It means snd-intel-hda which is probably the correct driver.
Is there a driver for OpenSUSE v12.2 Gnome x64 that will allow me to install my audio properly? It works out of the box… No audio issues at all.
Then you are set.
Flat audio, not very rich in sound at all.
Is it barely legible or does the sound work properly?
Also if there is a proper driver for this
You will have to check with the vendor if they have an alternate driver. The Linux kernel includes drivers so it is probably already using the correct one.
what about a system equalizer?
Check out the package pulseaudio-equalizer. I have never used it so I cannot explain how it works. Someone might be able to help you with that.
There is an ALSA setup script that can be useful in looking at your audio setup. But since it works, but sounds crappy, if its not some setting, the best you can do is to update the kernel, which is where the basic driver is loaded. I had a sound card that did not work at all until I upgraded the kernel:
I might add that I had one motherboard that used Realtek and the audio was bad and I just installed a separate sound card from Creative and I was working like a champ. I have also had Realtek chipsets that work OK for me. I would need to know the exact Realtek chipset used in order to look up Linux Support.
Now that I think about it. Sometimes if the pcm slider is up too higher it can distort the audio. In the yast sound control center go to Other -> Volume to see if that helps. Though I am not sure how pulseaudio messes with the alsa controls.
I love the help and suggestions… I will definitely see what I can do… The audio isn’t choppy or distorted… It just lacks depth, make sense? Under Windows I have a program provided by Asus that ‘enhances’ the audio and takes advantage of the Altec Lansing speakers … Surround sound, vocal enhancement, base…
So if you could discover the exact Realtek chipset and then see if they offer Linux source file for it, it could be compiled into your kernel. It sounds like the basic options work, but not the enhanced ones. That may be because, well first, Realtek did not offer up their driver code to be put in the kernel and second, some basic functions must be identical between some of the kernel supported chipsets from Realtek. As I said, my choice was to get hardware better supported in Linux, which Creative seems to have both because at first, they were top dog and many open source people reversed engineered their stuff and then later Creative release the X-Fi code into open source, kind of anyway. All of the bells and whistles are not there either, but its support is well enough for me. I use a Sony Receiver that creates any effects I might want from stereo while the Linux drivers support the many sound card inputs and the ability to direct out 5.1 or 7.1 ES Dolby output for movie watching.
Hey everyone, my problem is similar (i think). I’m on 12.2, my sound is working, but. The codec is ALC887 VD, the mobo is a Gigabyte GA-G41M-Combo. I have visible controls in KMix etc, but when i try to test sound in Phonon, i get no feedback from right speakers. I’m sure that the right one is working (tested on a Win7 pc). I’ve tried setting the channels (Stereo, 4.0, 5.1 and so on), but i got nothing.
Tell us about the actual speakers you use. How do they connect? You can often plug in headphones in place of the speakers to see if you get any sound there when the connection is analog stereo. In the mean time, have a look at these blogs on the subject:
Hi, thanks for the reply. I’ve tried to connect my headphones, the same thing happens. My speakers are plugged in the green connector at the i/o panel. I also installed pavucontrol, but i get no results. I’m certain that the hardware is not malfunctioning, because when i got the machine it had Win7 on it, and it was working. I did try the bash script, but i got an error saying:
start: line 708: warning: here-document at line 161 delimited by end-of-file (wanted `EOFTEXT’)
start: line 709: syntax error: unexpected end of file
I think I’ve done something wrong. Also tried different live distros, problem persists, I guess it’s a driver issue.
If you have a manual for the motherboard look it up and tell us what the green connector is for e.g. line-out? Maybe a label even just above/below the socket?
The main thing here is to ensure that only one channel is coming out of the stereo jack of your sound card and using headphones should be able to determine this is true.
As for the bash script, you just messed up a line on the manual download. Use the following terminal command line instead. Open up terminal session, copy only the following line of text from here in the code block shown below:
Then paste this text into the terminal session you just opened and press the enter key. When complete, enter the terminal command start. You must enter the root password for the menu icon files to be created for you.
I know what you mean. Unfortunately manufacturers don’t provide those programs for linux which usually have a setting for some kind of 3D positional audio effect. That’s what can provide the depth of sound you are looking for. Back in the late 1990’s, I had a soundcard on Win95 system that came with a Mixer app that had such a feature. Fast forward, and my notebook has a W7 app for managing the sound that has the enhancement but not for linux. It improves the stereo speaker sound, but most noticeable with headphones.
The only enhancement I have come across is in the VLC media player > Tools > Preferences > Audio, where there is “Headphone surround effect” tick box. It doesn’t seem to make any difference now (my sound has depth without it). There was a time when it made a difference, and I think that could have been when the Intel HDA model was incorrectly auto-detected (IIRC before kernel 2.6.35). Since correct detection (oS 11.4 onwards), sound has been good without any tweaks.
You can specify or edit the model of your sound device in the file at /etc/modprobe.d/50-sound.conf but be careful! Read “STEP 5” in SDB:Audio troubleshooting - openSUSE. It contains a link to an Intel-HDA specific wiki page, but note that the link to ALSA’s page for looking up model types seems to be broken.
Running the following diagnostic script when pc is connected to internet and provide the resultant url where script output is located might help give better insight into your hardware and software audio configuration: