Integrated Soundmax Isn't Recognized.

[tombert]

I recently installed SuSE 10.0 to my Lenovo 3000 J115 machine, and everything has worked great, except for my audio. On the top of my gnome setop the little speaker has a red x next to it. When I click it for volume controls, it says none have been configured.

So I open YaST and try to configure my Integrated ADI Soundmax card. Much to my dismay, however, it would appear that my card is not supported. I then try alsaconf, and it finds no results at all. I have tried everything I can think of (keep in mind that I have been logged in as root the entire time) and I am finding no results.

I'm fairly new to linux, so the noobier the explaination, the better.

[daark.child]

Firstly check in the BIOS settings that the card is enabled. Also post the output of running

#/sbin/lspci | grep -i audio

[gogalthorp]

You probably need a newer alsa driver check it out here

Main Page - AlsaProject

You may also want to check within the Suse support community there may be a repository that has the newer drivers. Novel is conservative on what it offers.

Additional YaST Package Repositories - openSUSE

Just add a repo to Yast and check I suggest Packman and Guru as a start

If you can't get it there you will need to resort to the alsa site

[oldcpu]

On the top of my gnome setop the little speaker has a red x next to it. When I click it for volume controls, it says none have been configured.

Further to what daark-child and gogalthorp have suggested/recommended, it would help if we knew more about your system/sound.

Please run the following script on both your Mandriva and openSUSE:
http://bulletproof.servebeer.com/als...s/alsa-info.sh
Note - to run this script just download it to /home/user (not to root) and then when logged in as a regular user open a konsole and type "bash alsa-info.sh".

This is a script that wishie (a sound "guru" on IRC #alsa) wrote, to gather ALSA information from the machine its run on. When run, it will post the output on pastebin.ca automatically and give you the URL where its posted. Please then post that URL here, so the forum participants on this thread can have a better idea as to your PC configuration for sound.

Here is an example output. general pastebin - user - post number 724516

It might also help if you could flash up xchat, and join the IRC # alsa channel directly. I access #alsa via freenode and # alsa with xchat. There are many expert alsa users on xchat on the IRC # alsa.

I am fairly insistent on only helping users who log in as a regular user, ... I won't help users who are logged in as root. It keeps me out of trouble if I give a bad recommendation. ... So given your note that you have been logged in as user root all the time, I probably can't help. But I am sure others can, and maybe output from that script will help them.

Good luck.