Hi,
I have a problem with the sound on my laptop. When I plug in my headset in the headset plug, the sound on the speakers shuts off, but there is no sound in the headset itself.
Also, since I upgraded to 11.4, sound doesn’t work for all notifications (Kopete, etc) even if Amarok works and Phonon testing works as well. I tried both gstreamer and xine backend.
After checking, it seems like KMix is broke completely. I can change the sound in KMix to 0% or 100% and the sound level doesn’t change at all in Chrome or games. Muting works but with a 10 seconds delay (I mute and the sound keeps playing for 10 seconds and then stop).
To address this, please provide the output recommended to be provided in our multimedia stickie: Welcome to multimedia sub-area and to make this easier for you I will quote the salient section:
please post … providing in your post the following information:
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:
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 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
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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
… now next question :
Try installing the application pavucontrol and then run pavucontrol to give you more control over pulse audio.
Also ensure your order of sound devices in KMENU > Configure desktop > multimedia is the same as in YaST > Hardware > Sound.
When using the xine backend, what audio output mode do you have selected in xine? or did you even select that ? (using xine-ui to run xine ? ).
Using pavucontrol I was able to fix the notification sound problem, but the headset plug still refuses to work properly. When I plug my headset halfway in, I can hear the music in it as well as on speaker, when I plug it completely in, speakers and headset go silent.
OK, I note a 64-bit openSUSE-11.3 with 2.6.37.1-1.2-desktop and an alc663 hardware audio codec. Your hardware is an ASUSTeK Computer Inc. G50VT.
The behaviour you note is not correct, and IMHO to fix it you either need to force a model option in your /etc/modprobe.d/50-sound.conf file, or install an alsa-driver-kmp-desktop application as noted on the alsa-update guide that I am updating: SDB:Alsa-update - openSUSE
Rather than install alsa-driver-kmp-desktop (which will impose limitations wrt future kernel updates), if you wish to force a model option for your Asus G50VT the list is here from the HD-Audio-Models.txt file that is actually (buried) somewhere on your PC:
ALC662/663/272
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3stack-dig 3-stack (2-channel) with SPDIF
3stack-6ch 3-stack (6-channel)
3stack-6ch-dig 3-stack (6-channel) with SPDIF
6stack-dig 6-stack with SPDIF
lenovo-101e Lenovo laptop
eeepc-p701 ASUS Eeepc P701
eeepc-ep20 ASUS Eeepc EP20
ecs ECS/Foxconn mobo
m51va ASUS M51VA
g71v ASUS G71V
h13 ASUS H13
g50v ASUS G50V
asus-mode1 ASUS
asus-mode2 ASUS
asus-mode3 ASUS
asus-mode4 ASUS
asus-mode5 ASUS
asus-mode6 ASUS
dell Dell with ALC272
dell-zm1 Dell ZM1 with ALC272
samsung-nc10 Samsung NC10 mini notebook
auto auto-config reading BIOS (default)
I note there is a “g50v” model option for an ASUS G50V. How about giving that a try ?
To do that, edit your /etc/modprobe.d/50-sound.conf file so that it looks like this:
options snd-hda-intel model=g50v
options snd slots=snd-hda-intel
# u1Nb.w3SAN3oGsLA:82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
save the change, restart your PC and test the sound.
You can try different options that the g50v, but only one at a time.
Good luck and let me know if you need more detail, as I put less in than I normally do.
