Steven T. Hatton wrote:
On Wednesday 16 November 2005 01:33 am, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
Hi -
I just upgraded my laptop, a Dell Inspiron 8100, to SuSE 10.0 from 9.2 and now my sound is no longer functioning properly. When I boot up, KMix comes up with a red X across it's icon in the systray and does not present any volume controls or work. I did some searching on the internet and found one person saying to run alsaconf and this I did. That seems to partially restore my sound for some applications and if I restart KMix after doing so it works. But other applications, such as GAIM continue to not produce sound, so this remedy seems to only partially succeed.
YAST reports under Hardware > Sounds that I am using an ESS Maestro3 PCI Card Model. When I try to "Edit" its configuration however I get a blank screen and can do nothing with making or setting any sort of configuration settings.. I don't know if this is expected/normal behavior for this sound card, but it seems rather odd to me...
Any suggestions or help as to how I should proceed with getting my sound system working will be greatly appreciated of course! ;-) Marc....
Did you try deleting the sound card item and rebooting? If it's not auto-detected, go back into YaST and add it.
Steven
Thanks Steven, but I am still not having much luck... When I bring up the YAST >Hardware>Sound Configuration GUI, I get two items listed as follows - Number Card Model Sound card Not configured ES1983S Maestro-3i (Dell Inspiron 8100) --- With the Sound card item selected, this GUI shows the following additional information for it - * Configured as sound card number * Driver snd-maestro3 If I click on Edit I get a new but blank GUI that has no buttons or fields within it. And YaST does absolutely nothing if I click on the Delete button for this item, and it seems to completely ignore my request to delete it --- With the ES1983S Maestro-3i item selected, this GUI displays the following additional information - * The device is not configured * Press Edit to configure Clicking on Delete again does absolutely nothing. However when I click on Edit I get a new GUI that explains that this sound card will be configured as the second sound card (snd-card-1) and it gives me 3 toggle choices - Quick automatic setup Normal setup Advance setup with possibility to change options it defaults to having the Quick automatic setup selected. If I select either the Quick automatic setup or the Normal setup and then click on the Next button I get the following error message - An error occurred during the installation of ES1983S Maestro-3i (Dell Inspiron 8100) The kernal module snd-maestro3 for sound support could not be loaded. This can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters. If I selected the Advance setup option, then click on Next, I get a new GUI window which has a table showing me two advance options that I guess I can set/change - Description Option Value GPIO pin number for external amp. (default=-1) amp_gpio Enable external amp for ESS Maestro3/Allegro/Canyon3D-2 soundcard. external_amp 1 None of this makes any sense to me, so if I just leave them alone and dont change anything, click on the Next button, I then get the above mentioned error message again. So I am still at a loss as to how to fix this and proceed... Nothing seems to be deletable and I seem to be encountering an error of some kind that I have no idea what to do about... Got any more ideas or suggestions on how I should proceed? Thanks again in advance... Marc...