No sound from onboard audio

[fillister]

Hello I have recently installed Suse 10.2 and cannot get the sound to work, my mother board is a gigabyte 915p.

I have modified my user account to include the audio group but I still cannot get the audio to work.

In yast sound configuration it identifies my sound device as 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller
Configured as sound card number 0
Driver snd-hda-intel

This is a fresh install from 10.1 which I could also not get the audio to work.

I have followed the instructions from this web page "http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/60/" but still no luck.

Any help for this linux newbe will be greatly appreciated,

Thanks Fillister

lsmod shows this
Module Size Used by
snd_pcm_oss 53376 0
snd_mixer_oss 21248 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq 60272 0
snd_seq_device 12812 1 snd_seq
snd_hda_intel 23060 1
snd_hda_codec 164352 1 snd_hda_intel
snd_pcm 86916 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_timer 27908 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 61188 10 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,s nd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
af_packet 29320 2
radeon 108832 2
drm 71316 3 radeon
xt_pkttype 6016 3
ipt_LOG 10624 8
xt_limit 6912 8
button 10896 0
battery 14340 0
ac 9476 0
ip6t_REJECT 9344 3
xt_tcpudp 7296 3
ipt_REJECT 9472 3
xt_state 6272 12
iptable_mangle 7040 0
iptable_nat 11524 0
ip_nat 21804 1 iptable_nat
iptable_filter 7168 1
ip6table_mangle 6528 0
ip_conntrack 52960 3 xt_state,iptable_nat,ip_nat
nfnetlink 11032 2 ip_nat,ip_conntrack
ip_tables 17604 3 iptable_mangle,iptable_nat,iptable_filter
ip6table_filter 7040 1
ip6_tables 18756 2 ip6table_mangle,ip6table_filter
x_tables 18180 10 xt_pkttype,ipt_LOG,xt_limit,ip6t_REJECT,xt_tcpudp, ipt_REJECT,xt_state,iptable_nat,ip_tables,ip6_tabl es
ipv6 263584 19 ip6t_REJECT
apparmor 55572 0
aamatch_pcre 18304 1 apparmor
nls_iso8859_1 8320 1
nls_cp437 9984 1
vfat 16640 1
fat 55324 1 vfat
nls_utf8 6272 5
ntfs 210580 5
loop 20488 0
dm_mod 60184 0
usbhid 52192 0
pcmcia 40892 0
firmware_class 14080 1 pcmcia
ide_cd 42272 0
cdrom 38432 1 ide_cd
intel_agp 27804 1
ohci1394 37040 0
agpgart 35528 2 drm,intel_agp
ieee1394 102584 1 ohci1394
soundcore 13792 1 snd
yenta_socket 30348 1
tg3 104580 0
i2c_i801 11660 0
rsrc_nonstatic 17024 1 yenta_socket
uhci_hcd 26892 0
pcmcia_core 43412 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
i2c_core 25216 1 i2c_i801
ehci_hcd 34696 0
snd_page_alloc 14472 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
usbcore 114896 3 usbhid,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd
parport_pc 42084 1
lp 15652 0
parport 39752 2 parport_pc,lp
ext3 141192 1
mbcache 12804 1 ext3
jbd 70324 1 ext3
edd 13892 0
fan 8964 0
via82cxxx 12804 0 [permanent]
ata_piix 19332 0
sg 38044 0
ahci 25860 8
libata 119188 2 ata_piix,ahci
piix 13700 0 [permanent]
thermal 18568 0
processor 34664 1 thermal
sd_mod 24576 10
scsi_mod 136712 4 sg,ahci,libata,sd_mod
ide_disk 20480 0
ide_core 129992 4 ide_cd,via82cxxx,piix,ide_disk

[mdelorme]

Most distros will have the alsaconf utility that will help in configuring alsa with your sound card. Try running the alsaconf utility:

alsaconf

I will mention that I did use SUSE 10.1 on my laptop (also uses an intel ICH audio controller), and did experience some odd sound behaviour. If that doesn't work you can consider upgrading to SUSE 10.2. That should be using a newer kernel, and therefore have some newer drivers available.