Not necessarily true man. Like I said, THE COMPUTER REPAIR GUY SAID HE GOT THE SOUND WORKING. This is after the computer turned off when I touched the cords. Everything else works just fine. It could still be a driver problem. I appreciate all of the time I’ve been given with this, but I haven’t actually received any help, if you’ll look closely at all of the responses.
Do you have the install dvd?
Yeah, I have the install 11.0 DVD, 11.1 network cd, and KDE4 11.1 live CD.
But you are using 11.1 correct?
Yes, I did a network install of 11.1 and selected automatic configuration.
I’m no sound guru, and those that are happen to be away on trips. I would suggest that there is not much wrong here. But I can tell you I use a cheap 5:1 card in my box, always have, it just works. I do the same for the network.
because you have ‘snd-hda-intel’ try this…
Yast>Hardware>Sound
Select Edit model
add “ref”
select ok
follow it though and reboot your sound.
Close Yast, restart kmix or what ever it is in Gnome.
open kmix or … un-mute and turn the volume up on everything, in my case I chose ‘right’.
Close mixer, make sure volume is at a reasonable level.
Reboot your puter. after you login, you should be hearing the startup file play.
enjoy.
China_Jobs, welcome to openSUSE forums.
I note you replied to a number of sound support threads, and in every case recommended the application of the model “ref”.
In fact, that model option does NOT work in most cases. If one looks at the 1.0.18 version of alsa-configuration.txt file, and does a search for ref, one will find that option “might” only work for the following options …
STAC9200, STAC9205/9254, STAC9220/9221, STAC9202/9250/9251, STAC9227/9228/9229/927x, STAC92HD71B*, STAC92HD73*
In the case of user knicholes, they stated ALC1200 audio codec is on their PC. If they apply “ref” it will also break their sound. I note they applied somewhere the model configuration model=auto and also model=auto probe_mask=1. Rather than help, that might break their audio configuration. I note also they have a /etc/modprobe.d/sound file with:
cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound
alias snd-card-0 snd-opl3sa2
alias sound-slot-0 snd-opl3sa2
options snd-opl3sa2 fm_port=-1 midi_port=-1 port=0x370 wss_port=0x530 isapnp=0 dma1=1 dma2=0irq=5
I have no idea where they got that last line from, but it may also break their audio.
But blindly applying “ref” without knowing their hardware audio codec may simply make things worse and even harder to unwind.
But please, your help is appreciated.
We can use all the help we can get in the forums, so if you get the chance you could read the following files (comes with the documentation in every alsa tarball):
- alsa-configuration.txt
- hd-audio-models.txt
- hd-audio.txt
and that should shed some light on this, and the various aspects associated with troubleshooting Linux sound.
knicholes, it appears to me from looking at the diagnostic script output and looking at the /etc/modprobe.d/sound file, that you hacked at a bunch of audio config files while you did not understand what you were doing. If that is the case, I recommend you remove all of those edits, restart your PC, and then run the diagnostic script:
/usr/sbin/alsa-info.sh
and post here the output.
Also after removing those custom edits, post here the output of:
rpm -qa | grep alsa
rpm -qa | grep pulse
rpm -q libasound2
uname -a
cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound
knicoles, note my PC has an ALC1200, and it “just works” with 11.1 of alsa. Be certain you checked all your mixer settings.
Yeah, that’s exactly what happened. I’m new, so I just read what other people had done and I mixed and matched solutions, leaving myself with the jumble of weird files. IT actually turns out now that I don’t even have a “sound” option in my Yast anymore. Can anyone help me figure out which file that is and what it should contain?
Are you still using 11.1 ?
Please remove the hand edits that you added, like I suggested. One thing you could do is copy the file /etc/modprobe.d/sound to some directory /home/knicholes (do NOT leave the backup in /etc/modprobe.d/ as that WILL cause problems, … I believe that directory (for 11.1) makes no distinction between backups, regardless of file name).
After its backed up, then remove /etc/modprobe.d/sound and then run with root permissions the program “alsaconf” (no quotes).
Note when testing your sound , test per the 3 different tests here (try each of them to see if any work): SDB:AudioTroubleshooting - openSUSE - how to test your sound
Please check your speakers and headset and also try those tests from a konsole/terminal as a regular user and also in the konsole/terminal with root permissions.