Sound problem For VIA Sound Chip (VIA VT 1705 6-Ch High Def audio codec)openSUSE 11.3/GNOME

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checked link

SDB:Intel-HDA sound problems - openSUSE

The command output for codec is as below

head -n 1 /proc/asound/card0/codec*
Codec: VIA VT1708S

Kindly let me know as to how sound can be activated in openSUSE 11.3/GNOME

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Also output for alsamixer gives following output

alsamixer
ALSA lib pulse.c:229: (pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Connection refused
cannot open mixer: Connection refused

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Hope atleast in openSUSE 11.4 /GNOME there would be default support for VIA sound cards :frowning:

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Your problem is that you have not sound?

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Sound should ‘just work’ with your hardware. I think some other users with VT1708S hardware were having problems. But to see if your configuration is similar to those with similar problems, we would need more information.

Please note our multimedia stick requests more information be provided when sound does not work. That stickie is here: multimedia stickie in openSUSE forums You did read that stickie ?? [note it is standard that all forums have stickies as recommended reading, and our forum is no different in that regard].

To save you the trouble of following up yet another link, I will quote the salient part for you:

please post … 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).
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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.

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… 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

also, I note gnome has pulse audio enabled, which I don’t know much about. Sometimes with pulse audio I find it helps to install padevchooser and pavucontrol to have better control over the PC’s sound setup.