When I login the desktop icon for the volume control has a red X. When 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 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.
This all sounds VERY familiar... just as an experiment, log in as your regular user (the one with no sound). Start up YAST, and go to the User admin. Add your user to the Audio group and save the changes. Log out and log back in again. If you now have sound, then this is a resurfacing of a problem I and others had with 10.2. Adding your user to the Audio group is not the solution to the problem... it is only a workaround. If you don't have sound, go back into YAST and remove the audio group from your user (just so things are back to the way they were before you experimented) C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org