On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 18:50:47 +0200, Tom Mehlkop wrote:

> I've recently installed openSUSE 10.2 with KDE 3.5 as my desktop, but
> can't get my sound cards working. Before SUSE I used Fedora Core 6, which
> didn't have any trouble in that area. I've Googled numerous internet pages
> for possible reasons, and followed the instructions on them for solving
> the problem, but without success so far. I've tried configuring my sound
> cards with YaST2 and alsaconf, configuring only one of two cards,
> installing en uninstalling mixer software packages, etcetera, but alas ...
> I have a Dell Dimension 9150 with two sound cards: - SB Audigy LS
> - CMI8738/C3DX PCI Audio Device
> Both of them are detected by YaST.

Do you really need two? I bet the CM is an on board chip, right?

If so disable it in your BIOS settings. It makes life a lot simpler.

If you need both keep digging. Configuring 2 sound cards is a bit tricky
but others have done it and you should be able to find that info in
Google Groups.

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On Jun 17, 12:50 pm, Tom Mehlkop wrote:
> I've recently installed openSUSE 10.2 with KDE 3.5 as my desktop, but can't
> get my sound cards working. Before SUSE I used Fedora Core 6, which didn't
> have any trouble in that area. I've Googled numerous internet pages for
> possible reasons, and followed the instructions on them for solving the
> problem, but without success so far. I've tried configuring my sound cards
> with YaST2 and alsaconf, configuring only one of two cards, installing en
> uninstalling mixer software packages, etcetera, but alas ...
> I have a Dell Dimension 9150 with two sound cards:
> - SB Audigy LS
> - CMI8738/C3DX PCI Audio Device
> Both of them are detected by YaST.
> All volume levels in all mixers are turned up as far as I can see. But no
> sound at all.
> I'm relatively new to Linux (trying to make the big step from Windows), and
> not really a technical specialist in this area.
> Has anyone had the same problem?

in the user / groups menus, you will have to edit your user to add
audio to your user.

If you cannot tackle the problem, pls try the opensound:
http://www.opensound.com/download.cgi

I am using sound blast vibra 128, no sound comes out for the recent Linux
distributions (ALSA). The opensound works OK with my sound card. Now I use
it in Debian Etch and SuSE 10.0.

Hope it can help


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> I've recently installed openSUSE 10.2 with KDE 3.5 as my desktop, but
> can't
> get my sound cards working. Before SUSE I used Fedora Core 6, which didn't
> have any trouble in that area. I've Googled numerous internet pages for
> possible reasons, and followed the instructions on them for solving the
> problem, but without success so far. I've tried configuring my sound cards
> with YaST2 and alsaconf, configuring only one of two cards, installing en
> uninstalling mixer software packages, etcetera, but alas ...
> I have a Dell Dimension 9150 with two sound cards:
> - SB Audigy LS
> - CMI8738/C3DX PCI Audio Device
> Both of them are detected by YaST.
> All volume levels in all mixers are turned up as far as I can see. But no
> sound at all.
> I'm relatively new to Linux (trying to make the big step from Windows),
> and
> not really a technical specialist in this area.
> Has anyone had the same problem?

It's working now. There's a switch called IEC958 in the mixers (KMix and
ALSA mixer). Turning that one off (or on, can't make that out) was the
answer. Actually, at that point I was blown off my chair since I had
forgotten all volume levels where at the max position. Initially the sound
was distorted, especially when playing wav's and mp3's. It turned out that
during one of my earlier attempts to get things working I had left them
unconfigured. After reconfiguring both of them with YaST2, the sound was
brilliant. Choosing the 'Analog Front' channel as the main channel in KMix
enabled me to control the volume through the KMix central volume slide
(left click on speaker icon in system tray).

It's working now. There's a switch called IEC958 in the mixers (KMix and
ALSA mixer). Turning that one off (or on, can't make that out) was the
answer. Actually, at that point I was blown off my chair since I had
forgotten all volume levels where at the max position. Initially the sound
was distorted, especially when playing wav's and mp3's. It turned out that
during one of my earlier attempts to get things working I had left both
sound cards. After reconfiguring both of them with YaST2, the sound was
brilliant. Choosing the 'Analog Front' channel as the main channel in KMix
enabled me to control the volume through the KMix central volume slide
(left click on speaker icon in system tray).

It's working now. There's a switch called IEC958 in the mixers (KMix and
ALSA mixer). Turning that one off (or on, can't make that out) was the
answer. Actually, at that point I was blown off my chair since I had
forgotten all volume levels where at the max position. Initially the sound
was distorted, especially when playing wav's and mp3's. It turned out that
during one of my earlier attempts to get things working I had left both
sound cards unconfigured. After reconfiguring both with YaST2, the sound was
brilliant. Choosing the 'Analog Front' channel as the main channel in KMix
enabled me to control the volume through the KMix central volume slide
(left click on speaker icon in system tray).