-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 28 August 2003 17:43, Marshall Heartley wrote:
By default the volume levels on system are set to zero. I know it may sound silly but many (including myself) have done the "what's wrong" dance, installed new/various drivers, changed permissions, etc, etc..., only to find out that all the while the volume was set to zero and/or muted (usually just set to zero).
I would recommend using gamix (though try kmix - if your using kde first for generic settings). Gamix is almost dizzying in the amount of parameters one can control - especially with the SBLive/Audigy cards. Check such things as anolog vs digital speakers settings and the various different volumes. The amount of options can almost become a problem in and of themsleves, until one figures out what controls what.
Thanks for the suggestion Curtis! Unfortunately this doesn't help. I have tried several different mixer apps but still no sound. When I do the module dance (in my original email) the sound will work. I will happily try the mixers again though to see if magically one of them will gain control over this beast :)
What does the sound/alsa section of your modules.conf say. Mine is as follows: ######################################################################## # # Aliases for OSS # # These aliases will be changed by YaST2 sound configurator. # If you would like to configure OSS drivers by yourself, please # take a look at the files on /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound. # ######################################################################## alias sound off alias midi snd-synth-emu10k1 and: # Alsa sound support. # Warning: please don't modify comments over aliases 'snd-card-#' alias char-major-116 snd alias char-major-14 off options snd snd_cards_limit=1 snd_major=116 options snd-emu10k1 snd_enable=1 snd_extin=0x0fcf snd_extout=0x1f0f snd_index=0 snd_max_buffer_size=128 snd_max_synth_voices=64 snd_seq_ports=8 #options midi snd-emu10k1 # --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. --- # YaST2: sound system dependent part # alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-slot-1 off alias sound-service-1-0 off alias sound-slot-2 off alias sound-service-2-0 off alias sound-slot-3 off alias sound-service-3-0 off # uniq.virtual:Sound Blaster Live! alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1 alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-11 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss Now mind you that I have been tweaking this for a bit here and there experimenting. The basick part is the "YaST2: sound system dependent part" as well as the: alias char-major-116 snd alias char-major-14 off options snd snd_cards_limit=1 snd_major=116 I say this because of the fact that you mention the "modules dance" that perhaps the modules that should be loaded and initialized during the boot process are. Another thing to consider is sometimes during certain upgrades (such as KDE, alsa, etc) the some of the user temp files can cause problems. If worse comes to worse you can also delete the unique hardware keys (in /var/admin/hardware IIRC) and reconfig the card again. But take a look at the modules.conf file and post any of the sound related sections. HTH, Curtis. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/Tre6iqnGhdjCOJsRAop6AJsFWpkQsVeWROacxinNpJzfk8mAzACfaFjL VRHxXvRo8tBXk5gJ/uvlTfc= =Yse6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----