Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (6210 mails)

[Richard Atcheson <ratcheson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 27 October 2005 03:18 pm, Paul wrote:
> hi,
>
> On 27/10/05, Richard Atcheson <ratcheson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I have  an 'old' Compaq 1260 laptop which has an ESS18xx sound
> 
> Have you also tried alsconf?  This is a console-based tool (it needs
> root privileges) which can work well configuring older sound cards
> (such as ISA... is yours one?)
>
> After YaST crashes you could check /var/log/YaST2/y2log (assuming
> that's where YaST still stores its logs files - I haven't tried 10.0
> yet).  It might give some clues to what action is being performed when
> the crash occurs.  Check dmesg too (just execute dmesg in a console)
> for possibly useful hardware-related messages.
>
Thanks Paul, Paul, Patrick, Sunny and Matt!  Alsaconf was the answer.  The old 
brick now plays sounds. It took me a little while to make the fix as I'm 
sharing the powersupply with my LCD monitor and have to switch between the 
two.  The laptop has the typical non-functioning battery since it was 6 
months old.

Thanks for the help.
Richard