Sound problems on OpenSUSE 10 on Sony Vaio c15

[technomaniac_tzp]

Just got my Sony Vaio c15gp.Everything is fine but i get no sound on OPENSUSE 10.It recognises the sound hardware but I get no sound.The song plays(mp3,CD or ogg) but there's no sound.Can anyone solve my problem? Help is urgently required.

[NucleusKore]

Please open yast and check the sound card in the hardware section. You can test it there too. And why suse 10, 10.2 is now out.

[mehulved]

Open a terminal and type

alsamixer

and check if none of the required channels are muted or on low volume.

[eddie]

OpenSUSE 10.0 came with alsa v1.0.9 while the chipset 945PM (used by your laptop) was most probably supported from 1.0.12 onwards. You either need to get latest version of OpenSUSE or alsa. Still post the output of lspci (as root) and we will see if there was any support for your particular sound card in 1.0.9.

[JGuru]

Better get the latest version Suse 10.2 & install it. This should solve your problem.

[technomaniac_tzp]

here's the output of lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PCI Express Graphics Port (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Class 0403: 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)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 02)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (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.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) Serial ATA Storage Controllers cc=IDE (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 01d8 (rev a1)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8036 Fast Ethernet Controller (rev 13)
06:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 4222 (rev 02)
0a:03.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments: Unknown device 8039
0a:03.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments: Unknown device 803a
0a:03.2 Unknown mass storage controller: Texas Instruments: Unknown device 803b

[NucleusKore]

Yes, it has recognised the audio card, but please go to yast, hardware, sound card and test it once. Also clik on the KMenu (Start) button, Go to multimedai, volume control, Kmix sound mixer and see if anything is muted there

[technomaniac_tzp]

thanks for the reply. was suse
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Thanks for the reply.was suse10.2 given in any previous digit or chip cd? As for testing the sound card in yast,well i did.But once again no sound.although it is evident that my sound card has been recognised.nothing is muted,i have checked and rechecked.Also can you tell me what is the path for the kernel source tree in suse 10.1.the latest version of alsa needs this to install.this is what the install file says:

Kernel Source Tree
On 2.4/2.6 kernels, the location of the kernel source tree is
parsed automatilly from the running kernel.
If it's not in the standard place, specify the path via
--with-kernel=<kernel_directory>.
On 2.6 kernels, the build directory has to be given via
--with-build=<kernel_build_dir> option additionally, too.

[NucleusKore]

No, I'm stumped, I cannot say much beyond this

[eddie]

Originally Posted by technomaniac_tzp

00:1b.0 Class 0403: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)

If it would have detected your audio device properly then the part in bold would have said "Audio Device" instead of mentioning the class. You should try to install latest ALSA. The kernel source tree should be located in /usr/src/linux directory.

[mehulved]

It would be far better to upgrade to any latest distro then going through all this specially if you're new or don't have enough time to tinker around. If you have time then go ahead.