I am struggling to locate the correct drivers for this sound device. The nVidia site is not particularly helpful on this ocassion and googling has not ultimately helped. No doubt I'm looking for the wrong thing...
Can anyone point me to the right place? This is a SuSE 10.1 64bit install, I believe this is the right info re hardware? nine:/home/roger # lspci | grep audio 00:10.2 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 AC97 Audio Controller (rev a2) Volker Kuhlmann wrote: >> Hi, I have SuSE 10.1 64bit version running on this machine, the sound >> system is not functional. The volume icon in the system tray comes up >> with a line through it indicating mute is on, I can turn mute off and >> increase volume from zero to some level. >> > > It should save the current sound settings when you log out. > > >> Going into Personal Settings >> (aka Control Centre) and looking at system notifications, I can enable a >> sound for an event, but there is no output from the speakers if I click >> the "play" button. In the "Sound System" section "enable the sound >> system" is turned on, however the "Test Sound" button also produces no >> output from the speakers. >> > > I have "enable sounds system" and "auto-suspend after 5 seconds" ticked. > Both must be default. The test sound button works. > > Forget about system notifications while testing, they add an additional > level of potential trouble. > > If you're out of luck so far, I'd suspect either a funny KDE setting, or > trouble with your audio hardware. I know an nforce4 sound thing will > work fine: nVidia Corporation CK804 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev a2) > > Suggestion: > > 1) create a new user > 2) log out all users > 3) log in as the new user, using KDE > 4) run yast, configuring your audio hardware again from scratch > 5) log out (reboot if you want to make sure) > 6) log in as the new user using KDE, test audio system again > > This should make sure the hardware is correctly configured and you don't > have accidental preventive KDE settings as your normal self. If trouble > persists, a closer look at the hardware driver(s) would be in order. > > Alternative tests: > > play /usr/share/sounds/alsa/test.wav > > (install sox) from console with no other users logged in. You may have > to run this as root if joeuser doesn't have write-access to the audio > device(s) unless logged in graphically. > > HTH, > > Volker > >
