Well, I think I'm doing a complete power shutdown, that is to say, I'm selecting shutdown the computer from the menu and I have to press the power on button on the box to restart. The surge protector isn't switched off and the monitor (oddly) remains semi-on until I do, but the box shuts down. Powering back on give the suse voice thing saying that the computer is booting from operating system which doesn't happen with the reboot option, so I do think, or at least want to believe, that all is being booted clean. Were you running with a sound card or on-board sound? This is an on-board mobo and I know they can be difficult. A colleague of mine at work built the same box with the same mobo and also couldn't get sound; his solution was to turn up the sound level in every audio program on his box, but that 'trick" hasn't worked for me. dave Ty C. Mixon wrote:
I had a similar problem on an Asus board I was running Mandrake 7 on. Are you doing a COMPLETE shutdown from windows? All power off?
What was happening on my system was that I'd install Linux, everything would work. Would do a reboot (no pwr off) into windows & work, then reboot (again, no pwr off) into linux. Suddenly no sound. But windows sound would continue to work.
What I believe was happening was that Windows was 'hard' setting irq's, but Linux didn't like those irq's. If I let the system power off it would erase those settings & I would get sound in Linux again.
Anyway, it's a thought.
On Sun, 2003-05-18 at 12:30, David Johanson wrote:
Ben Rosenberg wrote:
* David Johanson (dcjohan@patriot.net) [030517 08:44]: ->For the first time in installing a SuSE Linux distribution, I can't get the ->sound to work. I've tried setting the volume controls on every sound and ->CD related program I cna find, cannot find anything muted, and know the ->hardware connections are correct - at least I would assume so - as I get ->sound on the winders side of the box. -> ->My configuration is an Asus P4PE motherboard with built in sound, a Sony ->CRX220A1 CD-R/RW player. P4 1.6 processor and 1 GB RAM but I doubt that ->these matter.OS of course is SuSE 8.2. -> ->Am I missing something obvious?
My boss at work said he could never get sound to work on his laptop but *I* built his laptop so I knew the soundcard was seeing on install. What he failed to do was ask me what was up.. the issue is that it's muted most likely start up alsamixer or kmixer..whatever suites your fancy and unmute the channels. SuSE does this by default so that the first time you start KDE or whatever. You won't blow your speakers if you have the actual volume on your speakers turned up to high. This should be the issue. If it's not then post again. :)
All the programs I can find under the "K" menu options CD and Sound have been checked multiple times and none are muted and I've set the volume to run at 75% or more. Checked start up and shutdowm which says starting and shutting down sound. YaST2 tells me that the card in recognized, installed properly, and that the sound drivers are working. Hoever, when I press the test buttton I get nothing, even when setting sounf levels to 100%.
So with startup showing sound loaded, YaST2 saying all is well but not playing a test sound at any volume setting, nothing muted that I can find, and all the sound related progrms set to 75 - 90%, and still not getting sound onn the Linux side of th box, where should I looknext?
dave
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