I think I got into some fudge with updating alsa. I added the alsa repo, but the packages were not of the same version, so it doesn’t seem to have worked properly.
Another thing is that the codec isn’t listed in /usr/src/linux-2.6.27.23-0.1/Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt so it doesn’t seem supported, but people have got it working, so guess it is.
ok, your mixer is set wrong. You need to turn up your PCM volume and your speaker volume. Both of them !!
I note this on your PC (from the script you ran for me): Simple mixer control ‘PCM’,0
Capabilities: pvolume
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 255
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] -51.00dB]
Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] -51.00dB]
Simple mixer control ‘Speaker’,0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 64
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] -48.00dB] [on]
Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] -48.00dB] [on]
The above setting guarantee’s no sound, and that is NOT what you want/need.
Just a further note, in addition to your laptop’s speaker audio/sound working, so should your headphones and mic.
I’m busy checking out all electronic equipment before the trip. I just finished successfully testing the mic and headphone outputs on my Dell Studio 15 (1537) laptop. Both headphone inputs work (with independant mixer control of each - which is great, so my wife and I can watch a movie while waiting at the airport). I checked the laptop’s integrated digital mics, and they work great (albeit capture of sound from integrated mic is a bit low) and I checked out my wife’s favourite portable headphone/mic combo with the laptop, and it works great also for recording sound. The wife likes to use the headphone mic from WinXP running in a Virtual Box under Linux, so I have to ensure the Linux side is working first, and then she worries about the WinXP virtual box.
So this is good news for us, and it sounds/records like we are prep’d for the trip for headphones and mics!!
Well, at the moment the soundcard has disappeared completely, so there is no volume to change! I can fix it through yast (delete/edit), but then pulse dies, and it reverts back on reboot anyway. Ah, well, I’ll play around for a bit first.
In the meantime, what repositories are you using to get your version of alsa from? The ones I listed were the newest versions from the repositories/multimedia:/audio/openSUSE_11.1/ repo, but they don’t have the git suffix and some packages are a bit older, eg alsa 1.0.18 is the max version I can get.
Hmmm … it reads like you are somehow making this more complex than it is. I simply added the repos. Installed the updates. Removed the repos. And sound worked. I did not even have to go into YaST nor run alsaconf, although those are always options.
That reads like the repos. The “git” are old versions from a previous update to my PC. The openSUSE packager no longer names them “git”, and no longer updates “alsa” nor “libasound2”, but only updates alsa-driver-kmp-default, alsa-driver-kmp-pae (kernel dependant), alsa-utils, alsa-oss, alsa-tools, alsa-plugins, … etc …
Typically only one or two of those 3 sound tests will work.
Do NOT expect sound out of the YaST sound test (as it is known to be buggy). And do NOT use system start up sounds as your test for functioning sound (as that is often irrelevant when it comes to testing sound functionality).
Right, cool, it is working, but with everything at 100%, it still sounds a bit quiet. Do you think the speakers are a bit quiet, and that’s just normal?
Also, did you get your remote control working? I haven’t heard of anyone getting it working, but I have heard the makers have a linux driver, and have e-mailed them to check and get it if there is one. But, if you’ve already got it working, then that would save me some work!
I think they are a bit quiet. But not too bad. Most the time we use the laptop with headsets on, so that was not an important feature for me. Sound is plenty loud through the headset.
I don’t have a remote control for the laptop. I know nothing about it.
I was very pleased to get the internal integrated mic working. It took me a long time to figure that out.
Yes, the internal mic is very cool, and gives a very good quality recording.
However, still having trouble! Ahhhh! My sound was working fine, so I presumed it was fixed, but now I’ve found out that actually it wasn’t going through pulseaudio. Pulseaudio doesn’t detect the card as an output. Any ideas where to look for the solution?
I’m typing this on my Dell Studio 15 laptop, from an apartment in Bangkok Thailand (using a local wireless). We arrived Bangkok from a 3-night whirl-wind visit to China (arriving at midnight last night). Tomorrow we head off to Phuket Thailand.