Daniel, I had the same problem until I used this fix from the SuSe website: The System Hangs with the ESS Maestro Sound Chip on SuSE 7.3 Support knowledgebase (swgkern_maestro) Applies to SuSE Linux: Version 7.3 Kernel: Version 2.4.10 Alsa: Version 0.5.11 Symptom The system hangs when performing the sound test in YaST2 or alsaconf, or when playing an audio file with any player. This affects all ESS-Maestro sound chips supported by the Alsa module snd-card-es1968. 1st Solution: ALSA Start your computer at run level 3 (the ALSA modules should not be loaded yet). You can do this by entering at the boot prompt: linux 3 Once on the run level 3, open the file /etc/modules.conf with an editor of your choice (e.g. with mc). Please disable with "#" the yast2 or alsaconf existing sound entry at the end of this file. If there is no sound entry available, please continue from the step "change to run level 5". An example for this entry follows: # YaST2: sound cards support # # alias char-major-116 snd # options snd snd_cards_limit=1 snd_major=116 # options snd-card-ens1371 snd_id=card1 snd_index=0 # alias snd-card-0 snd-card-ens1371 # # YaST2: sound system dependent part # # alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 # alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss # 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 Save the file /etc/modules.conf and change to run level 5 with init 5 In order to fix the ALSA module snd-card-es1968.o, please download the file alsa-fixes.sh from ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/tiwai/7.3-i386/alsa-fixes.sh Execute this file as root in a terminal: sh ./alsa-fixes.sh The script determines the kernel version and automatically replaces the module. Activate now as root the sound entry you previously disabled in /etc/modules.conf. Finally, load the ALSA modules with rcalsasound start You can also use yast2 to configure your sound card (since the system "freezed" last time you tried). 2nd Solution: kernel sound module Use the kernel sound module maestro.o. First of all, open the file /etc/modules.conf with any editor of your choice and delete or mask the existing sound configuration. If you have already configured with YaST2 or alsaconf, you can find this configuration at the end of /etc/modules.conf. Finally, please delete the sound line configured in file /var/lib/YaST/unique.inf. [sound] oJUp.LB5FQylNql1 configured Now please unload the loaded sound modules with rcalsasound stop or with rmmod xxx (xxx = sound module name). By means of lsmod you can verify that all sound modules have been unloaded. In order to configure the kernel sound modules, please change the following entries in file /etc/modules.conf (from approx. line 43, after the comment) from alias char-major-14 off alias sound off alias midi off to alias char-major-14 maestro # alias sound off # alias midi off Start an oss-mixer, e.g. kmix. Now lsmod should produce the following output: Module Size Used by ... maestro 26112 0 (unused) soundcore 3280 2 [maestro] If it has not worked, please start the oss-mixer again after having executed the depmod -a command. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Keywords: MAESTRO, ES1978, ES1968, ALSA, SOUND, YAST2, 7.3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- SDB-swgkern_maestro, Copyright SuSE GmbH, Nürnberg, Germany - Version: 06. Nov 2001 SuSE GmbH - Last generated: 19. Nov 2001 by ip (sdb_gen 1.40.0) Linux is a registered Trademark of Linus Torvalds Page created by webmaster@suse.de

-----Original Message----- From: Daniel Martin Legazpe EEM/TM/VT TU-1 Tlf.1091 [mailto:daniel.martin-legazpe@ece.ericsson.se] Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 07:48 AM To: Suse Multimedia Subject: [suse-multimedia-e] Problems with ESS Maestro sound card

Hello all,

I have a Dell Latitude CpX laptop with SuSE Linux 7.3. When I try to configure my sound card with Yast2 (or with alsaconfig) I have the following problem:

* With quick setup it works fine, everything works, but when I start the window manager (only with kde) my computer hangs up. * With normal setup or expert setup my computer hangs up when I push the finish button =).

All of them detects my sound card as an ESS Maestro 2E (module es1978).

And ... with SuSe Linux 7.2 everything worked fine ALWAYS !! =).

Can someone help me out with this problem ??

Thank you.

Regards. Daniel/

-- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-multimedia-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-multimedia-e-help@suse.com