Running SuSE 10.0 on a Dell Latitude laptop. Sound card does not work. Yast will not let me edit the configuration. As of now only solution is to run alsaconf from command line which configures the card. However configuration is lost on reboot necessitating a reconfig using alsaconf. Any suggestions?

Tnx,
John

Have you tried running 'alsactl store' after running alsaconf and setting the sound levels (alsamixer I think) ? If this doesn't works things get a little more complicated. IIRC 'alsactl store' is the right syntax. Check 'man alsactl' or 'info alsactl'.

Hi,
I have the same problem, and there is work around.
First of all I'll explain my problem, may be yours is related.
After installing Nvidia graphic card drivers, the sound stop working after reboot. It worked after running alsaconf, but configuration seems lost for later
reboot. Besides, when I tried to configure sound through Yast2 Sound, it crashed (even in the text mode interface).

As far as I could see, the problem was modules for my sound card were not loaded
during system boot. It means that when alsasound script is invoked the sound service will not be loaded. So, I included them in the modprobe.conf.local.

If this fails try doing "/etc/init.d/alsasound reload" . If that works
you can change the alsasound script to load the modules when it is invoked as
"alsasound start" during rc.d processing.

I hope this helps...

I know it not an elagant solution, but is the only one I could managed to implement. I'll apreciate any suggestion about the real problem that leads
Yast2 sound to crash or why after installing nvidia drivers sound configuration
get broken...

The same thing has happened to me in two different machines while installing Suse10. In both, sound stopped working after installing Nvidia drivers (both nvidia installations failed the first time, one becaouse I hadn't the kernel sources, and the other because the card was a RivaTNT, which is unsupported...



Regards
art

Thanks Art, 'alsactl store' did the trick!!

Is this audio issue fixed in SuSE 10.1?

I installed 10.0 OSS tonight on a generic PC with a K6-2 (500 MHz) processor, audio worked perfectly after installation. The first time I tried 10.0 was on an upgrade (not new installation) from 9.3. Installing it as a new installation fixed that problem for me.