Suse 9.1 - No Sound
 

Hello! :)
I Installed Suse Linux 9.1 Pro for the first time....
And it went preety smooth except I have no sound
My sound card is a creative sb awe 64...
Detected easliy by Suse... and said to be configured ok.
But there is no sound...
When I try to play with one of the audio players, it locks up or displays an error message saying it cannot open audio, but the card is configured properly and something else might be using it.
Tried to play a little bit with it in YAST
but I don't really know what to change...
The card works perfect on my other OS (Win 98)

Does anyone have any ideas?

What's the exact error message? If it's due to a permissions problem, it may be solvable by running
Without knowing the exact error though, it's tough to offer any more specific suggestions -- J.W.

The Error Message:

Window Title : Couldn´t Open Audio

Please Check That
Your Soundcard is configured properly
You have the correct output plugin selected
No other program is blocking the soundcard

Now....... I found something else
when KDE starts I hear this weird noise from the speakers
as it was trying to play something ...
Thx for ur help

This is an old ISA card isn't it? I'm not sure how an up-to-date Linux system deals with that. I retired my AWE 32 a couple of years ago. For really old ISA stuff you had to know various hardware parameters like IRQ, DMA and I/O range and supply them as arguments to the driver module. For PnP cards there was something called isapnptools

http://www.roestock.demon.co.uk/isapnptools/

I'm guessing your problem is something to do these settings. Some places to look:

1. The file /proc/interrupts shows what interrupts (IRQs) are in use.

2. There may be some PnP/IRQ settings in the BIOS to play with.

3. pnptools has some diagnostics you can try.

4. YAST is probably writing stuff in /etc/modules.conf according to what it thinks about your sound card.

5. Watch for the soundcard detection on boot (see output of 'dmesg' command).

6. Finally there is an AWE 32/64 HOWTO (6 years old!)

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Soundblaster-AWE.html

Sorry if this is too vague to be useful. I haven't dealt with this sort of hardware for quite a while.

[Edit] Just to confuse you further, it seems that the 2.6 kernel has its own PnP functionality. So if you are using a 2.4 kernel it might be worth trying.

Thank You!
I'll look into it