On Thursday 09 February 2006 12:04, Don Raboud wrote:
On Wednesday 08 February 2006 4:17 pm, BandiPat wrote:
Hey all, Happy to say SuSE 10.0 installed nicely on the Gateway M520 laptop! Had a few niggling problems with one left, but I think the computer likes having a good OS on it! ;o)
For owners of such machines or anyone that has a hint, sound is working, but isn't working. Confused? Me too! Everything shows it working, volumes up, nothing muted, modules loaded, etc. Checked all files related, made user part of audio group, but no sound yet. CDs play, but no sound. No errors in any log messages. I'm thinking at this point there is something on the computer that needs to be turned on for sound to escape. I don't have a manual, so don't know what that might be.
Any thoughts/help?
TIA, Lee
This may be a very basic question, however in reading your post, only CD's are specifically mentioned as not working.
How have you tested the sound system to determine that is doesn't work? Just by trying to play a CD? Have you tried system sounds or a test in Yast or something similar? A game?
Is this specific to playing CD's?
-- Don
Don, I can see where you might think CDs were the only problem, but I just included that as an example to further show my tests. Nothing seems to be able to unmute the speakers on this machine. As I mentioned above, everything has been checked and as far as Linux seems to be concerned it's working nicely. From all my investigations, it would seem that way as well. I honestly believe there is something about the computer that needs to be activated or maybe it can't be under Linux. Afterall, it was built to accommodate Windows, sadly. As Sunny pointed out the buttons don't control the hardware directly, only thru software. thanks, Lee