I completely removed pulseaudio. At least to try. Now I do have sound, however it's distorted. I have found some other posts elsewhere. I'll first investigate these further. Thanks for your input. Bart stan wrote: > bartlebooth wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm having trouble configuring sound on a machine running OpenSuse 11.0. >> The machine has an Asus M3N-HT motherboard with an NVidia 780a chipset, >> with onboard sound card. According to the motherboard documentation, >> this is an ADI AD1988B BH 8-channel HD audio codec. >> >> I can't get any sound out of my card. I tried to configure the sound >> card using OpenSuse Yast and alsaconfig, but the result is the same. >> >> Below are the details of my configuration. I've run the alsa-config.sh >> and tsalsa scripts. The output of these scripts can be found on >> >> >> alsa-info output >> http://pastebin.ca/1082495 >> >> tsalsa output >> http://nopaste.com/p/aVzUhDiLG >> >> Any help is much appreciated. >> Thanks, >> >> Bart >> >> > Great job on the post! Everything is there. > > To me, everything looks good. I recall a message on > this list or the devel list from Takashi Iwai in such a > case where he mentioned a conflict between a couple of > settings in amixer, though I don't recall the > specifics, vaguely that it might concern IEC958. It is > a long shot, but it might help. You should be able to > find it on www.gmane.org. > > Have you tried running aplay to see if it can generate > sound. > > aplay -vv -D plughw:0,0 some.wav > > Look for complaints in /var/log/messages on boot about > sound conflicts or problems. Also look when you try to > play to see if something is being written. > > Are you running pulse? Have you set up sources and > sinks for it? Does it have proper access? It acquires > alsa when it runs so can block sound if not properly > setup. http://www.pulseaudio.org > > The HD audio seems to create most of the problems > lately because of their variability. You can try > passing different options to the card during modprobe > at startup to see if it helps. If you need help with > this, post back. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-user mailing list > Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
