No sound in SuSE 9.2 Pro.

[lasthrsman]

I've tried and configured two different sound cards. An SB Live! and a generic noname SB compatable.

Both were detected fine but I get no sound once configured.

Sound woked in SuSE 9.0 personal, though I was unable to adjust the volume via Yast2.

Any suggestions?

Anyone else have this problem?

I'm on a P4 1.8Ghz machine with 512mb ram. (A Gateway machine)

Thanks!

try using alsactl or alsamixer to adjust the sound and make sure that its not muted.

[Uranus]

try using alsactl or alsamixer to adjust the sound and make sure that its not muted.

Note: Pressing "M" unmutes
Sam

[DonWhit]

Do you have it working yet? I had the same problem with 9.2. With 9.0 I just had to adjust the volume with kmix and un-mute it. With 9.2, somehow it installed a generic driver even though the correct card was selected. The card is a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz with a Cirrus Logic chip. I uninstalled the card in Yast and reinstalled it. You can open a terminal and use the lsmod command to see what driver is running.

[lhm0155]

also which version of the kernel are you running?? there has been an update and i know that after i updated my kernel alot of these types of problems (including this one) went away

[ZennouRyuu]

Well, this shouldnt be a problem in SuSE, but have you checked the permissionsof /dev/dsp when I first started with linux way back when I wasted many pots of coffee until i found that root was the only user who could access the damn audio device

[lasthrsman]

Tried alsamixer, it wasn't muted but I raised the volume to no effect.

Permissions for /dev/dsp seem fine. My user account used ls -al /dev/dsp and it showed this:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2004-11-15 13:27 /dev/dsp -> dsp0
So I'm assuming it's fine.

I havn't done the update yet, but I'm about to so I will let you know.

Oh, this is the output from lsmod:
Module Size Used by
nvram 8328 0
usbserial 26856 0
parport_pc 37824 1
lp 10536 0
parport 37960 2 parport_pc,lp
speedstep_lib 4228 0
freq_table 4356 0
thermal 17928 0
processor 25640 1 thermal
fan 5380 0
button 8464 0
battery 11396 0
ac 6404 0
snd_emu10k1 86792 1
snd_util_mem 4992 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_pcm_oss 57896 0
snd_mixer_oss 19200 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_fm801 17096 0
snd_tea575x_tuner 4096 1 snd_fm801
videodev 9344 1 snd_tea575x_tuner
snd_ac97_codec 69728 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_fm801
snd_pcm 96776 5 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm_oss,snd_fm801,snd_ac97_codec
snd_page_alloc 10248 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_opl3_lib 10624 1 snd_fm801
snd_timer 24708 2 snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib
snd_hwdep 9220 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_opl3_lib
snd_mpu401_uart 7552 1 snd_fm801
snd_rawmidi 24356 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 8716 3 snd_emu10k1,snd_opl3_lib,snd_rawmidi
snd 60164 15 snd_emu10k1,snd_util_mem,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss ,snd_fm801,snd_tea575x_tuner,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pc m,snd_opl3_lib,snd_timer,snd_hwdep,snd_mpu401_uart ,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore 9056 1 snd
edd 10012 0
ipt_TOS 2560 14
ip6t_LOG 6656 17
ip6t_limit 2432 17
ipt_LOG 6912 30
ipt_limit 2432 30
ipt_pkttype 1792 2
usbhid 40132 0
af_packet 20872 2
evdev 8960 0
joydev 9664 0
sg 35872 0
ip6t_state 2048 22
st 37404 0
ip6_conntrack 38404 1 ip6t_state
sd_mod 16912 0
ipt_state 2176 28
sr_mod 16292 0
scsi_mod 111308 4 sg,st,sd_mod,sr_mod
ip6t_REJECT 7552 3
ide_cd 38176 0
cdrom 36508 2 sr_mod,ide_cd
ipt_REJECT 6784 3
iptable_mangle 2944 1
iptable_filter 3072 1
ip6table_mangle 2688 0
ip_nat_ftp 5232 0
iptable_nat 23980 1 ip_nat_ftp
ip_conntrack_ftp 72624 1 ip_nat_ftp
ip_conntrack 43512 4 ipt_state,ip_nat_ftp,iptable_nat,ip_conntrack_ftp
ip_tables 17664 9 ipt_TOS,ipt_LOG,ipt_limit,ipt_pkttype,ipt_state,ip t_REJECT,iptable_mangle,iptable_filter,iptable_nat
ip6table_filter 2816 1
ip6_tables 18816 6 ip6t_LOG,ip6t_limit,ip6t_state,ip6t_REJECT,ip6tabl e_mangle,ip6table_filter
ipv6 237312 17 ip6_conntrack,ip6t_REJECT
emu10k1_gp 3840 0
gameport 4608 1 emu10k1_gp
uhci_hcd 29712 0
intel_agp 21024 1
agpgart 32168 1 intel_agp
binfmt_misc 11272 1
subfs 7552 3
nls_utf8 2176 1
ntfs 91888 1
3c59x 37544 0
dm_mod 54524 0
usbcore 106724 5 usbserial,usbhid,uhci_hcd
reiserfs 242000 1

Thanks again for your help folks.

[lasthrsman]

Still no luck. I've updated the emu10k1 driver, the kernel, everything. Still nothing.

Linux seems to THINK it's working. When playing a sound file I see the wave form for instance in the player, but no sound it actually comming out.

Any more ideas?

BTW: this is not SuSE specific. I tried it with 9.1 and Fedora Core and got the same problem.

Could this be a kernel v2.6 problem?

[maccorin]

uh... someone may have already said this, but it really sound to me like you just have the channel muted

run alsamixer

[lasthrsman]

alsamixer says it's not muted.

Any other suggestions? Is there a way to use the linux 2.4 kernel with SuSE 9.2? Seems like I only have this problem with the newer kernel, though I have no idea why.