[ale] Sound of Silence

[Cor van Dijk]

Jim Philips wrote:

>On Friday 20 May 2005 07:59 pm, Cor van Dijk wrote:
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>>I run a dual boot SuSE8.2 and SuSE9.2 on a ASUS P4P800SE mobo
>>with an Intel ICH5 built-in soundcard.
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>>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.
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>>Any suggestions will be appreciated. Cor van Dijk.
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>Cor,
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>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? 
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>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