I have sound but no volume control ???

[Dennis Fox]

Recently bought HP Pavilion dv9208nr. Have deleted M$ Windows Vista and installed SuSE 10.1 (32-bit), and after much fussing around finally got the mini-PCI wireless card working.

However, the sound card was detected and configured during installation ... and I have sound ... LOTS of SOUND ... with absolutely no volume control ... cannot even mute it.

lspci -v yields:
00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio (rev a2)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 30b7
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 225
Memory at b0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
Capabilities: [6c] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping

lsmod | grep snd yields:
snd_mixer_oss 20224 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq 53104 0
snd_seq_device 11916 1 snd_seq
snd_hda_intel 21652 2
snd_hda_codec 139136 1 snd_hda_intel
snd_pcm 86532 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_timer 25860 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 56708 12 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,s nd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 13024 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 13576 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcmbilities: [6c] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping

I see "intel" in there in several spots ... though this laptop has the AMD Turion 64 X2 and "nVidia" everything else (or so lspci seems to indicate).

Have admit I am at a loss even as to where to begin ... tried changing from ALSA to OSS, etc. with absolutely no effect.

Suggestions?

[Zelmo]

Does alsamixer (or alsamixergui) give you any controls?
What desktop environment or window manager are you using?

[Dennis Fox]

Does alsamixer (or alsamixergui) give you any controls?
What desktop environment or window manager are you using?

Zelmo,
I am running GNOME 2.12.2 at this point ... have almost always used KDE before. If I startup "alsamixer" it only gives me the same two controls that right clicking the speaker icon and choosing "Open volume control" does: "PCM" and "Capture" -- neither of which actual seems to control anything.

[Dennis Fox]

bump

Anyone else have any thoughts on this one?

TIA,
Dennis

[savvy_cowgirl]

Well, I'm really new at linux, so take this for what it is worth. I have a HP Pav dv6226us and am running suse10.1 also. I understand that if you have the same sound bits I do, that there is a problem with suse 10.1 and the sound card. On another forum I read about a fellow who had a HP lappy similiar to ours and when he installed suse 10.2 that fixed the lack of ability to control the volume and all his special buttons above the keyboard worked too.
so, I am thinking of trying to put suse 10.2 on. I don't know if this helps you or not, but I understand a bug report has been filed with suse on this card....

[rajeshk]

Try out the command "aumix" in command line.

If you are using GNOME Desktop Manager ----- use "gmix"
And if you are using KDE Desktop Manager ----- use "kmix"


Regards
rajesh