On Friday 06 February 2004 7:38 pm, Charles Philip Chan wrote:
Also, I forgot to ask if you were using an older version of ALSA (0.9.x) before upgrading to 1.0.2. If yes, try downloading the ALSA driver source and run the snddevices shell script. The ALSA devices names changed sometime during the latter part of the 0.9.x series That may solve your problem.
Indeed I'm running alsa-0.9.6-96, which is the latest available on the SuSE website. I'll go get the snddevices shell script. But in the meantime I did find a way to get back the sound. In the configuration for my sound card under Yast/Hardware/Sound, there's an option for support for DXS channels. It was originally set to 0 (auto). Setting it to 1 (enable), as suggested in the log messages, produced the error Feb 6 19:51:50 suillus kernel: ALSA pcm_lib.c:2155: playback write error (DMA or IRQ trouble?) But setting it to 2 (disable), miraculously, has restored the sound!!!! I suppose I should heave a sigh of relief and rejoice in my good fortune in having the sound back. But some puzzling questions remain: 1. Why did the switch to KDE 3.2 provoke the problem? 2. What are the DXS channels? Am I likely to miss them? 3. Why did reinstalling the sound card driver (VIA 8235) cause the DXS value to be set to 0 rather than 2? Or was it 0 all along, but something else happened to cause 0 not to work? Perhaps someone here can answer some or all of these questions. Paul Abrahams