Hi, Susers! i've got a new PC with Suse 10.1 and after i couldn't get the on-board card to produce any output i popped in my old trusty SB-compatible PCI card which has worked for me for 3 years or so (including in other 10.1 installations). After much fighting, it... well, it *kinda* works... read on... In yast i can see the card and configure it, but in the Volume settings i see no controls except for the Test button. During the *initial* setup of the card the controls were all there and the Test button played sound. (Boy, was i excited when it finally made some noise!) Now the test button does nothing. kmixer sees the card and i can change the volume levels all i want. xine can play audio from videos, and changing the volume via kmixer during playback works as expected. But i can't play any audio files (mp3/ogg). i have all of the updates from packman, etc., so that's not the problem (as far as i can see). What's so weird is that xine plays audio from movies just fine and kmixer does adjust the audio properly, but when, e.g., i try to use ogg123 or mpg123 to play audio files, i get: ALSA lib confmisc.c:670:(snd_func_card_driver) cannot find card '0' ALSA lib conf.c:3500:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such device ALSA lib confmisc.c:391:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings ALSA lib conf.c:3500:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such device ALSA lib confmisc.c:1070:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name ALSA lib conf.c:3500:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such device ALSA lib conf.c:3968:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such device ALSA lib pcm.c:2143:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default No default libao driver available. alsaconf runs fine and does what i believe it should, except that the audio played at the end doesn't play (but that's half expected, seeing the above error from ogg123/mpg123). Playing audio using, e.g., Amarok, simply doesn't work. Following some advice from list-member Carl Hartung, here is the contents of some of my system files, in the hopes that someone will see what it is that i'm missing here: owl:~ # cat /proc/asound/devices 2: : timer 3: [ 1- 0]: raw midi 4: [ 1- 1]: digital audio playback 5: [ 1- 0]: digital audio playback 6: [ 1- 0]: digital audio capture 7: [ 1] : control 8: : sequencer owl:~ # cat /proc/asound/cards 1 [AudioPCI ]: ENS1371 - Ensoniq AudioPCI Ensoniq AudioPCI ENS1371 at 0x8c00, irq 201 owl:~ # cat /proc/asound/version Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.11rc3 (Sun Jan 22 09:27:15 2006 UTC). (that doesn't seem right - alsaconf says 1.0.13 is installed) owl:~ # cat /proc/asound/id cat: /proc/asound/id: No such file or directory owl:~ # find /proc/asound -name id /proc/asound/card1/id owl:~ # cat /proc/asound/card1/id AudioPCI owl:~ # cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 2957914 local-APIC-edge timer 7: 1 IO-APIC-edge parport0 8: 2 IO-APIC-edge rtc 14: 56558 IO-APIC-edge ide0 15: 109113 IO-APIC-edge ide1 169: 112 IO-APIC-level acpi 177: 163074 IO-APIC-level libata, eth0 185: 2 IO-APIC-level libata, ohci1394 201: 963 IO-APIC-level Ensoniq AudioPCI 209: 56095 IO-APIC-level ohci_hcd:usb1, ohci_hcd:usb2, ehci_hcd:usb3 217: 708616 IO-APIC-level fglrx NMI: 0 LOC: 2957807 ERR: 10 MIS: 0 owl:~ # cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound options snd-ens1371 enable=1 index=0 # B35A.F2uWXyTiEa3:Creative Sound Blaster AudioPCI128 alias snd-card-0 snd-ens1371 i went through the whole gamut of online updates last night, up to and including KDE, so i'm pretty sure i have the latest/greatest of everything. If anyone can offer any tips on possibly getting audio files to play, i would be be much appreciative. Having audio for movies fulfills 85% of my audio needs, but the weirdness factor of me not being able to play other audio is just bugging the hell out of me. -- ----- stephan@s11n.net http://s11n.net "...pleasure is a grace and is not obedient to the commands of the will." -- Alan W. Watts