Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

["Steven T. Hatton" <hattons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 16 November 2005 01:33 am, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
> Hi -
>
> I just upgraded my laptop, a Dell Inspiron 8100, to SuSE 10.0 from 9.2
> and now my sound is no longer functioning properly. When I boot up, KMix
> comes up with a red X across it's icon in the systray and does not
> present any volume controls or work. I did some searching on the
> internet and found one person saying to run alsaconf and this I did.
> That seems to partially restore my sound for some applications and if I
> restart KMix after doing so it works. But other applications, such as
> GAIM continue to not produce sound, so this remedy seems to only
> partially succeed.
>
> YAST reports under Hardware > Sounds that I am using an ESS Maestro3 PCI
> Card Model. When I try to "Edit"  its configuration however I get a
> blank screen and can do nothing with making or setting any sort of
> configuration settings.. I don't know if this is expected/normal
> behavior for this sound card, but it seems rather odd to me...
>
> Any suggestions or help as to how I should proceed with getting my sound
> system working will be greatly appreciated of course! ;-)   Marc....

Did you try deleting the sound card item and rebooting?  If it's not 
auto-detected, go back into YaST and add it.

Steven