Sound Problems with Suse 10



Hello!

I've been running a Suse 10 system quite satisfactorily for quite a
while now. I had installed a Hauppauge PVR-150 MCE card along with the
ivtv driver. While I knew that the driver worked, I could never get
mplayer to work with it. I resolved that this was the weekend on which
I was going to get it going. And I did. Now, video capture and
display works famously.

There's only one problem.

Somehow, in mucking around, I seem to have completely hosed all sound
capabilities on my machine.
I have no idea what I might have done. However, in attempting to
rectify the proplem, I've been poking around just about everywhere I
can think of.

At one point, the /dev/dsp and associated files had disappeared. I did
a 'MAKEDEV audio' to restore them. Unfortunatlely, things still aren't
right. Audacity no longer complains that it can't open the /dev/dsp
but it seems to neither receive nor output anything.

I'm hoping someone might be able to guide me in fixing my problem. One
possibility might be to find the one thing I don't know about. The
alternative might be to tell me how I can completely reinstall my audio
system without having to reinstall the rest of my system.

Your help will be greatly appreciated.

For what it's worth:

uname -a
Linux exceed 2.6.13-15.8-default #1 Tue Feb 7 11:07:24 UTC 2006 x86_64
x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
paul@exceed:~> aadebug
ALSA Audio Debug v0.1.0 - Sun Apr 2 20:43:21 EDT 2006
http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=aadebug
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt

Kernel ----------------------------------------------------
Linux exceed 2.6.13-15.8-default #1 Tue Feb 7 11:07:24 UTC 2006 x86_64
x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Loaded Modules --------------------------------------------
snd_seq_dummy 4612 0
snd_pcm_oss 70432 0
snd_seq 68824 1 snd_seq_dummy
snd_mixer_oss 22144 3 snd_pcm_oss
snd_via82xx 33696 3
snd_ac97_codec 117188 1 snd_via82xx
snd_ac97_bus 3328 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm 117260 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer 29320 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 13200 2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm
snd_mpu401_uart 9344 1 snd_via82xx
snd_rawmidi 31904 1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 11024 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
snd 77600 13
snd_seq_dummy,snd_pcm_oss,snd_seq,snd_mixer_oss,snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device

Proc Config -----------------------------------------------
CONFIG_SOUND=m
CONFIG_SND=m
CONFIG_SND_TIMER=m
CONFIG_SND_PCM=m
CONFIG_SND_HWDEP=m
CONFIG_SND_RAWMIDI=m
CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER=m
CONFIG_SND_SEQ_DUMMY=m
CONFIG_SND_OSSEMUL=y
CONFIG_SND_MIXER_OSS=m
CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS=m
CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER_OSS=y
CONFIG_SND_RTCTIMER=m
CONFIG_SND_VERBOSE_PRINTK=y
CONFIG_SND_DEBUG=y
CONFIG_SND_DEBUG_MEMORY=y
# CONFIG_SND_DEBUG_DETECT is not set
CONFIG_SND_MPU401_UART=m
CONFIG_SND_OPL3_LIB=m
CONFIG_SND_VX_LIB=m
CONFIG_SND_DUMMY=m
CONFIG_SND_VIRMIDI=m
CONFIG_SND_MTPAV=m
CONFIG_SND_SERIAL_U16550=m
CONFIG_SND_MPU401=m
CONFIG_SND_AC97_CODEC=m
CONFIG_SND_AC97_BUS=m
CONFIG_SND_ALI5451=m
CONFIG_SND_ATIIXP=m
CONFIG_SND_ATIIXP_MODEM=m
CONFIG_SND_AU8810=m
CONFIG_SND_AU8820=m
CONFIG_SND_AU8830=m
CONFIG_SND_AZT3328=m
CONFIG_SND_BT87X=m
# CONFIG_SND_BT87X_OVERCLOCK is not set
CONFIG_SND_CS46XX=m
CONFIG_SND_CS46XX_NEW_DSP=y
CONFIG_SND_CS4281=m
CONFIG_SND_EMU10K1=m
CONFIG_SND_EMU10K1X=m
CONFIG_SND_CA0106=m
CONFIG_SND_KORG1212=m
CONFIG_SND_MIXART=m
CONFIG_SND_NM256=m
CONFIG_SND_RME32=m
CONFIG_SND_RME96=m
CONFIG_SND_RME9652=m
CONFIG_SND_HDSP=m
CONFIG_SND_HDSPM=m
CONFIG_SND_TRIDENT=m
CONFIG_SND_YMFPCI=m
CONFIG_SND_ALS4000=m
CONFIG_SND_CMIPCI=m
CONFIG_SND_ENS1370=m
CONFIG_SND_ENS1371=m
CONFIG_SND_ES1938=m
CONFIG_SND_ES1968=m
CONFIG_SND_MAESTRO3=m
CONFIG_SND_FM801=m
CONFIG_SND_FM801_TEA575X=m
CONFIG_SND_ICE1712=m
CONFIG_SND_ICE1724=m
CONFIG_SND_INTEL8X0=m
CONFIG_SND_INTEL8X0M=m
CONFIG_SND_SONICVIBES=m
CONFIG_SND_VIA82XX=m
CONFIG_SND_VIA82XX_MODEM=m
CONFIG_SND_VX222=m
CONFIG_SND_HDA_INTEL=m
CONFIG_SND_USB_AUDIO=m
CONFIG_SND_USB_USX2Y=m
CONFIG_SOUND_PRIME=m
CONFIG_SOUND_BT878=m
CONFIG_SOUND_CMPCI=m
CONFIG_SOUND_CMPCI_FM=y
CONFIG_SOUND_CMPCI_MIDI=y
CONFIG_SOUND_CMPCI_JOYSTICK=y
CONFIG_SOUND_EMU10K1=m
# CONFIG_SOUND_FUSION is not set
CONFIG_SOUND_CS4281=m
CONFIG_SOUND_ES1370=m
CONFIG_SOUND_ES1371=m
CONFIG_SOUND_ESSSOLO1=m
CONFIG_SOUND_MAESTRO=m
CONFIG_SOUND_MAESTRO3=m
CONFIG_SOUND_ICH=m
CONFIG_SOUND_SONICVIBES=m
CONFIG_SOUND_TRIDENT=m
# CONFIG_SOUND_MSNDCLAS is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_MSNDPIN is not set
CONFIG_SOUND_VIA82CXXX=m
CONFIG_SOUND_OSS=m
CONFIG_SOUND_TRACEINIT=y
CONFIG_SOUND_DMAP=y
CONFIG_SOUND_AD1816=m
CONFIG_SOUND_AD1889=m
CONFIG_SOUND_SGALAXY=m
CONFIG_SOUND_ADLIB=m
CONFIG_SOUND_ACI_MIXER=m
CONFIG_SOUND_CS4232=m
CONFIG_SOUND_SSCAPE=m
CONFIG_SOUND_GUS=m
# CONFIG_SOUND_GUS16 is not set
CONFIG_SOUND_GUSMAX=y
CONFIG_SOUND_VMIDI=m
CONFIG_SOUND_TRIX=m
CONFIG_SOUND_MSS=m
CONFIG_SOUND_MPU401=m
CONFIG_SOUND_NM256=m
CONFIG_SOUND_MAD16=m
CONFIG_SOUND_PAS=m
CONFIG_SOUND_PSS=m
CONFIG_SOUND_SB=m
CONFIG_SOUND_AWE32_SYNTH=m
CONFIG_SOUND_WAVEFRONT=m
CONFIG_SOUND_MAUI=m
CONFIG_SOUND_YM3812=m
CONFIG_SOUND_OPL3SA1=m
CONFIG_SOUND_OPL3SA2=m
CONFIG_SOUND_YMFPCI=m
CONFIG_SOUND_YMFPCI_LEGACY=y
CONFIG_SOUND_UART6850=m
CONFIG_SOUND_AEDSP16=m
CONFIG_SOUND_TVMIXER=m
CONFIG_SOUND_KAHLUA=m
CONFIG_SOUND_ALI5455=m
CONFIG_SOUND_FORTE=m
CONFIG_SOUND_RME96XX=m
CONFIG_SOUND_AD1980=m

Modprobe Conf ---------------------------------------------
# remove this if sound is configured

Proc Asound -----------------------------------------------
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.9b (Thu Jul 28
12:20:13 2005 UTC).
0 [V8237 ]: VIA8237 - VIA 8237
VIA 8237 with AD1980 at 0xc800, irq 5
17: [0- 1]: digital audio playback
25: [0- 1]: digital audio capture
16: [0- 0]: digital audio playback
24: [0- 0]: digital audio capture
0: [0- 0]: ctl
1: : sequencer
33: : timer
cat: /proc/asound/hwdep: No such file or directory
00-00: VIA 8237 : VIA 8237 : playback 4 : capture 1
00-01: VIA 8237 : VIA 8237 : playback 1 : capture 1
Client info
cur clients : 2
peak clients : 2
max clients : 192

Client 0 : "System" [Kernel]
Port 0 : "Timer" (Rwe-)
Port 1 : "Announce" (R-e-)
Client 62 : "Midi Through" [Kernel]
Port 0 : "Midi Through Port-0" (RWe-)

Dev Snd ---------------------------------------------------
audio controlC0 dsp mixer pcmC0D0c pcmC0D0p pcmC0D1c pcmC0D1p
seq timer

CPU -------------------------------------------------------
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+
cpu MHz : 2002.647

RAM -------------------------------------------------------
MemTotal: 1025060 kB
SwapTotal: 2040244 kB

Hardware --------------------------------------------------
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8385 [K8T800 AGP] Host
Bridge (rev 01)
00:0c.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16
(CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
Miscellaneous Control


Thanks for any help you might be able to offer.

All the best!

Paul

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