Today I had the pleasure of my computer shutting down without warning. It came back up mostly fine, except that my sound card no longer seems to work. It is recognized in Yast, and thinks it is the primary card, yet the (amp, speakers) do not seem to get a signal from it. `aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/test.wav` or a video from a browser now send sound to a small builtin speaker on the computer. Is it possible to determine if the card itself is destroyed? Clearly yast, etc. still recognize it. OpenSuSe 15.2 $ hwinfo --sound 06: PCI 300.0: 0403 Audio device [Created at pci.386] Unique ID: svHJ.aI0zRHBQWr8 Parent ID: 1GTX.zL18kkxawk9 SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/0000:03:00.0 SysFS BusID: 0000:03:00.0 Hardware Class: sound Model: "Creative SB1570 SB Audigy Fx" Vendor: pci 0x1102 "Creative Labs" Device: pci 0x0012 "Sound Core3D [Sound Blaster Recon3D / Z-Series]" SubVendor: pci 0x1102 "Creative Labs" SubDevice: pci 0x0010 "SB1570 SB Audigy Fx" Revision: 0x01 Driver: "snd_hda_intel" Driver Modules: "snd_hda_intel" Memory Range: 0x91104000-0x91107fff (rw,non-prefetchable) Memory Range: 0x91100000-0x91103fff (rw,non-prefetchable) IRQ: 16 (4676 events) Module Alias: "pci:v00001102d00000012sv00001102sd00000010bc04sc03i00" Driver Info #0: Driver Status: snd_hda_intel is active Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe snd_hda_intel" Config Status: cfg=yes, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Attached to: #21 (PCI bridge) Thanks. Michael -- Michael Fischer michael@visv.net