I'm a fairly new Linux user who is completely new to Opensuse. I have recently installed the Gnome desktop version of Opensuse 10.3 to an

Compaq Presario desktop computer that also can boot up in Windows

On Saturday 24 November 2007 01:16, Gene A. Anderson wrote: old 2000.

When I login the desktop icon for the volume control has a red X.

I click on it I get the following error message: "This volume control did not find any elements and/or devices to control. This means either you don't have the right GStreamer plugins installed or that you don't have a sound card configured."

The YaST sound configuration window shows that the ESS1988 Allegro-1 was configured as sound card number 0. It also lists the driver as snd_maestro3. So that seems like the card is being found.

Most bizarre to me is that in the login window when my cursor is in

When the

empty field in which to type my user name, I can hit the backspace key and get a healthy beep out of the speakers as if the sound card is correctly configured and ready to work and somehow the login process disrupts that, because after logging in I can get no sound whatsoever out of the speakers.

I'm looking for any suggestions and I'm willing to provide any information that would be helpful. Please remember that I am something of a beginner, so please try to keep that in mind when advising me. Thank you.

Gene Anderson in Taiwan Hi Gene,

I'm betting all works fine if you log in as root? Have you checked your system.log (/var/log/messages) for any resmgr errors? Carl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org Dear Carl: Thanks for your response. I tried logging in as root, but that didn't solve the problem. I have found some resmgr errors in the /var/log/messages file. That file is quite lengthy, so I hesitate to just tack the whole thing onto this e-mail, but I would like to paste some portions below: Nov 16 20:11:34 linux-57vy kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 0000:01:05.0 Nov 16 20:11:34 linux-57vy kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 0000:00:1f.3 Nov 16 20:11:34 linux-57vy kernel: Maestro3: probe of 0000:01:05.0 failed with error -2 Nov 16 20:11:34 linux-57vy firmware.sh[5683]: Cannot find firmware file 'ess/maestro3_assp_kernel.fw' Nov 16 20:11:34 linux-57vy hal-resmgr: resmgr: unable to connect to resmgrd: No such file or directory Nov 20 16:27:49 linux-57vy kernel: pnp: Device 00:04 disabled. Nov 20 16:27:50 linux-57vy kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 0000:01:05.0 Nov 20 16:27:50 linux-57vy kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 0000:00:1f.3 Nov 20 16:27:50 linux-57vy kernel: Maestro3: probe of 0000:01:05.0 failed with error -2 Nov 20 16:27:50 linux-57vy firmware.sh[14201]: Cannot find firmware file 'ess/maestro3_assp_kernel.fw' Nov 20 16:28:07 linux-57vy kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 0000:01:05.0 Nov 20 16:28:07 linux-57vy kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 0000:00:1f.3 Nov 20 16:28:08 linux-57vy kernel: Maestro3: probe of 0000:01:05.0 failed with error -2 Nov 20 16:28:08 linux-57vy firmware.sh[14271]: Cannot find firmware file 'ess/maestro3_assp_kernel.fw' Nov 20 16:28:58 linux-57vy kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 0000:01:05.0 Nov 20 16:28:58 linux-57vy kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 0000:00:1f.3 Nov 20 16:28:58 linux-57vy firmware.sh[14420]: Cannot find firmware file 'ess/maestro3_assp_kernel.fw' Nov 20 16:28:58 linux-57vy kernel: Maestro3: probe of 0000:01:05.0 failed with error -2 Nov 20 16:29:40 linux-57vy kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 0000:01:05.0 Nov 20 16:29:40 linux-57vy kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 0000:00:1f.3 Nov 20 16:29:40 linux-57vy firmware.sh[14546]: Cannot find firmware file 'ess/maestro3_assp_kernel.fw' Nov 20 16:29:40 linux-57vy kernel: Maestro3: probe of 0000:01:05.0 failed with error -2 Nov 20 16:30:21 linux-57vy kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 0000:01:05.0 Nov 20 16:30:21 linux-57vy kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 0000:00:1f.3 Nov 20 16:30:21 linux-57vy kernel: Maestro3: probe of 0000:01:05.0 failed with error -2 Nov 20 16:30:21 linux-57vy firmware.sh[14690]: Cannot find firmware file 'ess/maestro3_assp_kernel.fw' Nov 20 16:46:42 linux-57vy syslog-ng[1756]: STATS: dropped 0 Does that provide you with any useful information? I look forward to your response. Gene -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org