Sound out of sub only?

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Hello,

I have a HP DV7 laptop and it has ATI sound (IDT) and the sound works only out of the sub. I have never had this issue with any other distro.

I am very excited about Tumbleweed and after a fresh install it worked sub only so figured what the heck and added the Tumbleweed repository and now I have kernel 2.6.37 and have the same issue.

For what it’s worth the headphones work both channels. Is there a way to fix this?

Thanks in advance.

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Download alsamixer through yast
Open terminal and write

 alsamixer

try to fix it with sound bars ok?

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Sound out of the sub ? What does that mean ?

Please also read our multimedia stickie wrt sound, as it has useful information in there which might speed up your resolution of what ever sound problem this is that you are referring to? Link here: Welcome to multimedia sub-area

… also, if this is application specific (and I speculate on that because I have no idea as to what you mean by ‘sound out of the sub’ … submarine ??? ) you could also read these two multimedia how-to/guides for openSUSE :

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Just guessing here but maybe the OP means sound works only out of the subwoofer?

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I thing maybe he must set it through alsamixer.

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On 01/29/2011 12:06 PM, oldcpu wrote:
>
> corbintechboy;2283868 Wrote:
>> I have a HP DV7 laptop and it has ATI sound (IDT) and the sound works
>> only out of the sub.
>
> Sound out of the sub ? What does that mean ?

yes, inquiring minds want to know…

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to undo the problems caused by not.” DD 23 Jan 11

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Thanks for the replies.

This laptop has a sub woofer, sorry for not clarifying.

I tried Alsa mixer, tried “model=ref” in yast/sound.

I tried everything I know to do. I am not new to Linux and have no problem reading/trouble shooting to find a solution and I have exhausted everything I know to do.

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I can try to help, but I need more information as every PC is different. Note in my previous post I refered to our stickie: Welcome to multimedia sub-area

please provide the information recommended to be provided in the stickie, … and I’ll make it easier and quote this for you:

please post in this … sub-forum, providing in your post the following information:

/usr/sbin/alsa-info.sh

and select the SHARE/UPLOAD option and after the script finishes it will give you a URL to pass to the support personnel. Please post here the output URL/website-address that gives. Just the URL/website-address. You may need to run that script twice (the first time with root permissions to update in the /usr/sbin directory, and the second time to get the URL).
.
Note if for some reason that gives you no website/url/address then run it with the no-upload option:

/usr/sbin/alsa-info.sh --no-upload

and post the file /etc/alsa-info.txt it creates to Pastebin.com and press SUBMIT on that site and again post here the URL/website-address it provides.

.
… some clarification on running the script “alsa-info.sh” … when you run:

/usr/sbin/alsa-info.sh

you should get something like this (if it asks for an update, select NO):
http://thumbnails33.imagebam.com/9280/a5973e92794041.jpg](http://www.imagebam.com/image/a5973e92794041)

followed by this (select the SHARE/UPLOAD option):
http://thumbnails30.imagebam.com/9280/5e84f992794044.jpg](ImageBam)

followed by this (its quickest if you simply select ‘NO’ to seeing the output - you will see it on the web page) :
http://thumbnails32.imagebam.com/9280/214da092794048.jpg](ImageBam)

followed by this (where in RED is the URL).
http://thumbnails23.imagebam.com/9280/d9858092794051.jpg](ImageBam)

Just post the URL you get (similar to the RED URL in my example, but yours will be different).

Again, if you can not get that, then run this with the no upload option:

/usr/sbin/alsa-info.sh --no-upload


which will create the file /tmp/alsa-info.txt.  Copy that file and paste it on [Pastebin.com](http://pastebin.com) and press submit. That will give you a URL address. Please post that URL here.

Also provide the following:
  • in a terminal, or xterm, or konsole, type: rpm -qa ‘alsa’ #and post output here
  • in a terminal, or xterm, or konsole, type: rpm -qa ‘pulse’ #and post output here
  • in a terminal, or xterm, or konsole, type: rpm -q libasound2 #and post output here
  • in a terminal, or xterm, or konsole, type: uname -a #and post output here
  • …
  • for openSUSE-11.2 or newer, in a terminal, or xterm, or konsole, type: cat /etc/modprobe.d/50-sound.conf #and post output here