Sound problems 10.3 /w alsa 1.0.16

[noelg]

Hi All,

I've been messing with this problem for a few hours now...

I've got a HP dv6140us laptop. I have no sound.

Running Opensuse 10.3 with kernal 2.6.22.17-0.1-default 32bit

I have the nforce 6150go chipset with the nvidia HDA audio chip. Using the snd-hda-intel that is part of the latest alsa package. 1.0.16 from

Index of /repositories/multimedia:/audio/openSUSE_10.3/i586

I've searched around and tried to use the following options when coniguring the device in yast2:
model=hp
enable=1
position_fix=1

and I've also used alsaconfig from the command line to config the device as well.

Here is the output of hwinfo for the audio device section

33: PCI 10.1: 0403 Audio device
  [Created at pci.301]
  UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_10de_26c
  Unique ID: wRyD.Ca3M1JwJNZ5
  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.1
  SysFS BusID: 0000:00:10.1
  Hardware Class: sound
  Model: "Hewlett-Packard Company Presario V6133CL"
  Vendor: pci 0x10de "nVidia Corporation"
  Device: pci 0x026c "MCP51 High Definition Audio"
  SubVendor: pci 0x103c "Hewlett-Packard Company"
  SubDevice: pci 0x30b7 "Presario V6133CL"
  Revision: 0xa2
  Driver: "HDA Intel"
  Driver Modules: "snd_hda_intel"
  Memory Range: 0xb0000000-0xb0003fff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  IRQ: 20 (3058 events)
  Module Alias: "pci:v000010DEd0000026Csv0000103Csd000030B7bc04sc03i00"
  Driver Info #0:
    Driver Status: snd_hda_intel is active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe snd_hda_intel"
  Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown

Not sure what else to try. I know it works, I used Kubuntu 8.04 on this same laptop just a few days ago and it worked then.

Thanks for any help you can give.

[bobescalin2005]

I guess is a permission issue. Log as root and see if it works, and if it works go to /etc/group and make sure the user is in the audio group. Hope this helps!

Cheers!

[noelg]

I had tried to get sound as root as well but that also did not work. I made sure my user was also in the audio group. No go with the above configurations.

I ended up finding a ALSA 1.0.16 release on opensuse's build service that was spacific for my kernel, that included the "drivers". Even though I had installed the 1.0.16 package earlier, it did not include the driver updates that were supposed to come wth 1.0.16.

Thanks for the help.