no sound on laptop using suse 10.1 linux

[roxisayshi]

hey yesterday i have installed linux on my lenovo laptop model no 0689-3ma. i have also winxp installed on it. the problem is that i do not hear any sound from my speakers when i m using linux although it works absolutely fine in winxp.
media player can play the audio file but with no sound.
my sound card is of sound max digital integrated digital hd audio.

i am new to linux. so i dont know much about it.

please help me.

 

[mehulved]

See if sound is muted?
And also see this *www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=310856

 

[roxisayshi]

hey thanks for the link. ill try those suggestions and let u know.

hey no sound yet...
i logged in as a root user and ran alsamixer from terminal. no option is mute and volume is set to max
still no sound.
please help

my card is HDA intel
chip: analog devices AD1986A

 

[mehulved]

Then give the output of lspci. And also try running alsaconf as root
Don't login as root. Just use su command from the terminal to get root access in the terminal.

 

[roxisayshi]

i get this by running lspci :

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) Serial ATA Storage Controller IDE (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02)
05:01.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
05:04.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc CB1410 Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
05:06.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device 0832
05:06.1 Class 0805: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 19)
05:06.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device 0843 (rev 01)
05:06.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 0a)
05:06.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 05)


and now after running alsaconf , the audio files are not even running in media players like before. no error msg yet.

this sound problem is causing a lot of headache. i ll be very grateful if someone solve this for me.

ok after restarting the system, audio files can be played with no sound whatsoever

 

[eddie]

Are you trying to play MP3 files or some other audio files?
Give us the output of lsmod command as well.

 

[roxisayshi]

i have tried playing mp3 songs only.

output of lsmod is

Module Size Used by
joydev 9024 0
st 34332 0
ide_cd 35488 0
ide_core 116540 1 ide_cd
bluetooth 41188 0
af_packet 19336 2
ipv6 215808 12
cpufreq_ondemand 5660 1
cpufreq_userspace 3732 0
cpufreq_powersave 1792 0
speedstep_centrino 6736 1
freq_table 4228 1 speedstep_centrino
snd_pcm_oss 42752 0
snd_mixer_oss 16512 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq 47216 0
snd_seq_device 7948 1 snd_seq
edd 8516 0
button 6672 0
battery 9476 0
ac 4996 0
apparmor 47004 0
aamatch_pcre 13440 1 apparmor
nls_utf8 2048 2
ntfs 190356 2
loop 14728 0
dm_mod 52584 0
hw_random 5400 0
usbhid 39392 0
pcmcia 34492 0
8139too 23808 0
mii 5120 1 8139too
i2c_i801 8076 0
i2c_core 19728 1 i2c_i801
ehci_hcd 26760 0
snd_hda_intel 17044 0
ipw3945 167456 0
snd_hda_codec 133888 1 snd_hda_intel
ieee80211 28232 1 ipw3945
ieee80211_crypt 5248 1 ieee80211
firmware_class 9856 2 pcmcia,ipw3945
uhci_hcd 27280 0
usbcore 109700 4 usbhid,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd
intel_agp 21020 1
agpgart 28976 2 intel_agp
snd_pcm 80136 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_timer 20868 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 51076 8 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 8672 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 9608 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
i8xx_tco 6804 0
yenta_socket 23692 1
rsrc_nonstatic 12416 1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core 37008 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
ohci1394 29360 0
ieee1394 87992 1 ohci1394
reiserfs 210944 1
fan 4612 0
thermal 13448 0
sr_mod 14500 0
cdrom 32416 2 ide_cd,sr_mod
processor 22592 2 speedstep_centrino,thermal
sg 31004 0
ata_piix 10244 4
libata 65168 1 ata_piix
sd_mod 16144 5
scsi_mod 122120 5 st,sr_mod,sg,libata,sd_mod

 

[eddie]

Opensuse can not play MP3 by default. Try playing some wav file to see if audio is working or not. First do a "locate wav" (without quotes). You will get a long file list with lots of wav files. Just play any one of them using aplay command. Like "aplay xyz.wav" (without quotes again) and see if you get any audio output.

 

[roxisayshi]

few mins back i downloaded a sound driver from realtek site and installed it. guess what??? i got the sound back. audio output is working perfectly. i still dont know the reason.how can realtek driver work on a sound card of other company?
anyways here is link.
*www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downl...=24&Level=4&Conn=3&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false

(someone else may face the same problem)

thanks to all for ur time and help.

one more query............
the sound i am getting is a bit scratchy type like u know what we get while listening to FM and antenna is not properly positioned.(proper tuning of frequency is not done)
hope i am clear.

can anybody work on this unique problem.
thanks in advance