sound problem with dell dimension 8400

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Dear old cpu

Hello again.

I am in trouble again,this time with my dell dimension 8400.

I can get sound out of the speakers with that command you gave me last time about my my toshiba tablet(the lady’s voice),but that is it,i am not able to get it in any other case.

I have open suse 11.1 on my desktop and desktop envoirenment is kde 4.1.

If i am not mistaking ,last time you asked me to post couple of outputs here ,which i already have them handy (i think i learned my lesson).

please let me know ,what else can help.thank you .
mike arzan

upload=true&script=true&cardinfo= │─
│ !!################################ │
│ !!ALSA Information Script v 0.4.51 │
│ !!################################ │
│ │
│ !!Script ran on: Sun Feb 22 17:12:55 EST 2009 │
│ │
│ │
│ !!Linux Distribution │
│ !!------------------ │
│ │
│ Welcome to openSUSE 11.1 - Kernel \r (\l). LSB_VERSION="core-2.0-noarch:co │
│ │
│ │
│ !!Kernel Information │
│ !!------------------ │
│ │
│ Kernel release: 2.6.27.7-9-pae │
│ Operating System: GNU/Linux │
│ Architecture: i686 │
│ Processor: i686 │
│ SMP Enabled: Yes │
│ │
│ │
│ !!ALSA Version │
│ !!------------ │
│ │
│ Driver version: 1.0.17 │
│ Library version: │
│ Utilities version: 1.0.18 │
│

Your ALSA information is located at http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=3fb0e3de77bb9b4d1ba7b9bc0135ddd3d97261e2

Please inform the person helping you.

mikearzan@linux-zc35:~> rpm -qa | grep alsa
alsa-utils-1.0.18-6.4
alsa-plugins-1.0.18-6.12
alsa-1.0.18-8.7
alsa-plugins-pulse-1.0.18-6.12
alsa-oss-1.0.17-1.37
mikearzan@linux-zc35:~> rpm -qa | grep pulse
pulseaudio-module-zeroconf-0.9.12-9.6
libpulsecore4-0.9.12-9.6
libpulse-browse0-0.9.12-9.6
pulseaudio-utils-0.9.12-9.6
pulseaudio-module-x11-0.9.12-9.6
pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-0.9.12-9.6
pulseaudio-module-lirc-0.9.12-9.6
libpulse0-0.9.12-9.6
libxine1-pulse-1.1.15-20.8
pulseaudio-0.9.12-9.6
pulseaudio-esound-compat-0.9.12-9.6
libpulse-mainloop-glib0-0.9.12-9.6
alsa-plugins-pulse-1.0.18-6.12
pulseaudio-module-jack-0.9.12-9.6
mikearzan@linux-zc35:~> rpm -q libasound2
libasound2-1.0.18-8.7
mikearzan@linux-zc35:~> uname -a
Linux linux-zc35 2.6.27.7-9-pae #1 SMP 2008-12-04 18:10:04 +0100 i686 i686 i386GNU/Linux
mikearzan@linux-zc35:~> cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound

options snd slots=snd-intel8x0

r0Vg.E3P009617z2:Dimension 8400

alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
mikearzan@linux-zc35:~>

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OK, so the speaker-test works, but you can not get sound in the other applications you have tried. … Do I have that correct?

Well done! Those are very helpful to me, in coming to the crux of a user’s sound problem.

I looked at those, and they look fine. And you note the speaker-test works. So that suggests your problem is not in your basic sound setup, but rather possibly in your software audio codecs.

So, lets take a different approach (based on that assumption). … I am going to ask you to install a bunch of 3rd party packaged proprietary audio software codecs. But first, before doing that, I need you to set up the software package management in your PC such that it is easy to install 3rd party software from the packman software repository.

You can do that by setting up your Software package manager with 4 repositories (repos). Just 4. OSS, Non-OSS, Update and Packman. Just those 4. No others. None. There is guidance for setting up those 4 here: Repositories/11.1 - openSUSE-Community Again, just those 4 and not others. Especially do NOT add videolan. Once you learn more about software repositories, and the problems that can happen with the wrong or too many repositories, and how to solve the resulting problems, you can add more. But until then, just the 4 I recommend: OSS, Non-OSS, Update and Packman.

Now, with those 4 already setup, go to YaST > Software > Software Management, and change the “filter” to “search” and search for (and install) the applications packaged by Packman (and replace any Novell-SuSE-GmbH versions with packman packaged versions): amarok, amarok-xine, amarok-packman, libxine1, xine-ui, smplayer, mplayerplug-in, libffmpeg0, w32codec-all. In particular the last two will pick up a bunch of codecs, that will allow your PC to play proprietary audio codecs. Note you must go into amarok and change the audio engine to “xine”.

Note you can tell packman packaged versions of applications, as they have “pm” as part of the rpm version number.

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Dear old cpu

Your magic worked again.

I am listening to a beautiful music now as i am typing this.

you are the best.thanks again.

mike

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Great! Congratulations on getting this to work.