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, thedev-dsp and buttociated 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 thedev-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 x8664 x8664 x8664 GNU-Linux ALSA Audio Debug v0.1.0 - Sun Apr 2 20:43:21 EDT 2006

Kernel ---------------------------------------------------- Linux exceed 2.6.13-15.8-default #1 Tue Feb 7 11:07:24 UTC 2006 x8664 x8664 x8664 GNU-Linux

Loaded Modules -------------------------------------------- sndseqdummy 4612 0 sndpcmoss 70432 0 sndseq 68824 1 sndseqdummy sndmixeross 22144 3 sndpcmoss sndvia82xx 3368 plus 16 3 sndac97codec 117188 1 sndvia82xx sndac97bus 3328 1 sndac97codec sndpcm 117260 3 sndpcmoss,sndvia82xx,sndac97codec sndtimer 29320 2 sndseq,sndpcm sndpagealloc 13200 2 sndvia82xx,sndpcm sndmpu401uart 9344 1 sndvia82xx sndrawmidi 31904 1 sndmpu401uart sndseqdevice 11024 3 sndseqdummy,sndseq,sndrawmidi snd 77600 13 sndseqdummy,sndpcmoss,sndseq,sndmixeross,sndvia82xx,sndac97codec,sndpcm,sndtimer,sndmpu401uart,sndrawmidi,sndseqdevice

Proc Config ----------------------------------------------- CONFIGSOUND=m CONFIGSND=m CONFIGSNDTIMER=m CONFIGSNDPCM=m CONFIGSNDHWDEP=m CONFIGSNDRAWMIDI=m CONFIGSNDSEQUENCER=m CONFIGSNDSEQDUMMY=m CONFIGSNDOSSEMUL=y CONFIGSNDMIXEROSS=m CONFIGSNDPCMOSS=m CONFIGSNDSEQUENCEROSS=y CONFIGSNDRTCTIMER=m CONFIGSNDVERBOSEPRINTK=y CONFIGSNDDEBUG=y CONFIGSNDDEBUGMEMORY=y # CONFIGSNDDEBUGDETECT is not set CONFIGSNDMPU401UART=m CONFIGSNDOPL3LIB=m CONFIGSNDVXLIB=m CONFIGSNDDUMMY=m CONFIGSNDVIRMIDI=m CONFIGSNDMTPAV=m CONFIGSNDSERIALU16550=m CONFIGSNDMPU401=m CONFIGSNDAC97CODEC=m CONFIGSNDAC97BUS=m CONFIGSNDALI5451=m CONFIGSNDATIIXP=m CONFIGSNDATIIXPMODEM=m CONFIGSNDAU8810=m CONFIGSNDAU8820=m CONFIGSNDAU8830=m CONFIGSNDAZT3328=m CONFIGSNDBT87X=m # CONFIGSNDBT87XOVERCLOCK is not set CONFIGSNDCS46XX=m CONFIGSNDCS46XXNEWDSP=y CONFIGSNDCS4281=m CONFIGSNDEMU10K1=m CONFIGSNDEMU10K1X=m CONFIGSNDCA0106=m CONFIGSNDKORG1212=m CONFIGSNDMIXART=m CONFIGSNDNM256=m CONFIGSNDRME32=m CONFIGSNDRME96=m CONFIGSNDRME9652=m CONFIGSNDHDSP=m CONFIGSNDHDSPM=m CONFIGSNDTRIDENT=m CONFIGSNDYMFPCI=m CONFIGSNDALS4000=m CONFIGSNDCMIPCI=m CONFIGSNDENS1370=m CONFIGSNDENS1371=m CONFIGSNDES1938=m CONFIGSNDES1968=m CONFIGSNDMAESTRO3=m CONFIGSNDFM801=m CONFIGSNDFM801TEA575X=m CONFIGSNDICE1712=m CONFIGSNDICE1724=m CONFIGSNDINTEL8X0=m CONFIGSNDINTEL8X0M=m CONFIGSNDSONICVIBES=m CONFIGSNDVIA82XX=m CONFIGSNDVIA82XXMODEM=m CONFIGSNDVX222=m CONFIGSNDHDAINTEL=m CONFIGSNDUSBAUDIO=m CONFIGSNDUSBUSX2Y=m CONFIGSOUNDPRIME=m CONFIGSOUNDBT878=m CONFIGSOUNDCMPCI=m CONFIGSOUNDCMPCIFM=y CONFIGSOUNDCMPCIMIDI=y CONFIGSOUNDCMPCIJOYSTICK=y CONFIGSOUNDEMU10K1=m # CONFIGSOUNDFUSION is not set CONFIGSOUNDCS4281=m CONFIGSOUNDES1370=m CONFIGSOUNDES1371=m CONFIGSOUNDESSSOLO1=m CONFIGSOUNDMAESTRO=m CONFIGSOUNDMAESTRO3=m CONFIGSOUNDICH=m CONFIGSOUNDSONICVIBES=m CONFIGSOUNDTRIDENT=m # CONFIGSOUNDMSNDCLAS is not set # CONFIGSOUNDMSNDPIN is not set CONFIGSOUNDVIA82Clove=m CONFIGSOUNDOSS=m CONFIGSOUNDTRACEINIT=y CONFIGSOUNDDMAP=y CONFIGSOUNDAD1816=m CONFIGSOUNDAD1889=m CONFIGSOUNDSGALAXY=m CONFIGSOUNDADLIB=m CONFIGSOUNDACIMIXER=m CONFIGSOUNDCS4232=m CONFIGSOUNDSSCAPE=m CONFIGSOUNDGUS=m # CONFIGSOUNDGUS16 is not set CONFIGSOUNDGUSMAX=y CONFIGSOUNDVMIDI=m CONFIGSOUNDTRIX=m CONFIGSOUNDMSS=m CONFIGSOUNDMPU401=m CONFIGSOUNDNM256=m CONFIGSOUNDMAD16=m CONFIGSOUNDPAS=m CONFIGSOUNDPSS=m CONFIGSOUNDSB=m CONFIGSOUNDAWE32SYNTH=m CONFIGSOUNDWAVEFRONT=m CONFIGSOUNDMAUI=m CONFIGSOUNDYM3812=m CONFIGSOUNDOPL3SA1=m CONFIGSOUNDOPL3SA2=m CONFIGSOUNDYMFPCI=m CONFIGSOUNDYMFPCILEGACY=y CONFIGSOUNDUART6850=m CONFIGSOUNDAEDSP16=m CONFIGSOUNDTVMIXER=m CONFIGSOUNDKAHLUA=m CONFIGSOUNDALI5455=m CONFIGSOUNDFORTE=m CONFIGSOUNDRME96XX=m CONFIGSOUNDAD1980=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