[ale] Sound of Silence

Dow Hurst Dow.Hurst at mindspring.com
Tue May 24 08:34:26 EDT 2005


I did some Googling on Linux sound Intel ICH5 and found that most people 
on FC3 didn't get sound because the mixer was muting the headphone 
output.  The mixer input and outputs were switched around.  Unmute all 
input and outputs in the Yast2 sound setup and then test.   You may find 
that your headphone or such is the real volume control.  Support for 
your sound chip has been around for a while so you have support.  You do 
have in KDE in the Control Center another sound setup configuration 
module that sets up artsd to work with either OSS or ALSA.  Probably it 
is on auto detect so should be fine.  You might want to look into that 
if you do get sound in Yast2 sound setup but don't after loggin into a 
normal user in KDE.  Worst case would be to download ALSA 1.08 and 
compile into your current kernel.  That should cover the worst case 
scenario.
Dow


Cor van Dijk wrote:

> Jim Philips wrote:
>
>> On Friday 20 May 2005 07:59 pm, Cor van Dijk wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> I run a dual boot SuSE8.2 and SuSE9.2 on a ASUS P4P800SE mobo
>>> with an Intel ICH5 built-in soundcard.
>>>
>>> The sound works fine on SuSE8.2, but does not even start on SuSE9.2.
>>> The BIOS reports the presence of a soundcard, no problem there.
>>> Interrupts and ioports for the "card" appear to be the same on both 
>>> os's.
>>> I have tried rebuilding hardware sound from scratch with yast.
>>> I have tried the "options" for the AC'97 sound configuration.
>>> I have posted a message to SuSE, received automated response.
>>> So far no luck with any of these.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions will be appreciated. Cor van Dijk.
>>>   
>>
>>
>>
>> Cor,
>>
>> What drivers are available for your card? Are they included in ALSA? 
>> Is that the sound system you're using? Have you tried building the 
>> drivers into the kernel (if they aren't included)? Are you running 
>> KDE or Gnome?
>> All of these questions matter. KDE & Gnome use different sound 
>> daemons and what works for one doesn't always work for the other. 
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> Jim,
> Thanks for your response. The drivers were loaded automatically during 
> the installation and appear not ALSA related. However, the "test" 
> facility
> from inside the yast hardware configuration should work regardless? It 
> worked on SuSE8.2 but not on 9.2. I noticed on the SuSE site that 
> there appear to be issues with ALSA drivers in the 9.1 distro, but 
> presently I am not sure whether that has anything to do with my 
> problem. Looking at /proc/modules a whole bunch of sound stuff is 
> loaded and is practically identical to what is in /proc/modules in 
> 8.2. I removed and reinserted the ALSA stuff without any effect. I am 
> running KDE on both os's. I have not build anything into the kernel; 
> what would that be anyway if the relevant modules appear to be loaded?
> To Andrew: I was aware of that trick.
> Presently my hypothesis is that I have a broken driver. I will try to 
> insert the driver from 8.2 into 9.2, probably is not going to work, 
> but worth trying. Thanks again. Cor van Dijk
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