On Thursday 27 October 2005 03:18 pm, Paul wrote:
hi,
On 27/10/05, Richard Atcheson
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