In installed 11.2 on system that was happy with 11.0 day before yesterday. I tried to follow http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Intel-HDA_sound_problems because it seemed there was no sound. In so doing I discovered that there is sound, but the level is much too low. e.g. in VLC with sound level at 100% I can barely tell there is sound. I tried alsamixergui, but it shows master at about 50% and will not allow me to change it, even if run as root. If I login X to root, I get startup and shutdown sounds, and test sound in personal settings works. Also KMix sound control works, giving levels similar to those in 11.0. Regular user login sound is missing. Logout sound works. Test sound in personal settings gives failure to initialize sound driver error popup (default can't be opened for capture, operation not permitted) and perpetually tries to start the sound server. What do I do now? BTW, my hardware is virtually identical to the above URL example. Codec is ALC888 on ICH8, but I cannot tell for sure which model. http://www.foxconnchannel.com/product/motherboards/detail_spec.aspx?ID=en-us... is my motherboard which says 7.1 Realtek ALC883 but lscpi says is 888. http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/foxconn-p9657AB-rear.jpg shows rear of motherboard taken from http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813186116 .xsession-errors from regular user: http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/SUSE/112/xsession-errors-fi965 I can't find anything helpful in /var/log. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-multimedia+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-multimedia+help@opensuse.org