Hmm ...

Last week I added the win32 codecs and dvd support, etc ... to SUSE10.

All was grand. I was playing CD's with amarok and kscd, and able to
view and listen to "fireox flicks" and other streams on the web.

Now, as of a few nights ago .... it appears that KSCD is working, it sees even tells me that my WIlco CD is playing, but there is no audible sound. Not from the internal pc speaker, and not from a headphone jacked in.

The "volume thingy" (kmix in the kicker panel) is turned on. I have
tried changing "channel" from master to pc speaker to headphone, etc
.... no change. I've also gone into the sound system and multimedia section of control center.

I doubt that the hardware suddenly failed ... so completely and so silently? And this is a laptop, but the speaker is not disabled in hardware.

Gees ... where to look next. What log file could I look in? Is there a "master volume' control somewhere that I might have missed?

Peter

Try "alsamixer" in a console. It's the lowest level controller.

good god ... thank you! I was able to turn up the volume on the "CD" item, and now I hear playback of my cd's! Awesome!

What could have compelled this setting to go to 0?

Thanx so much!

Peter

When you make you "perfect settings" then launch "alsactl store" as root in order to store them. You'll maybe have to add "alsactl restore" in your rc.local startup script.