Hi Guys,

I have been trying to set up my audio card and for some reason it works everywhere but in amaroK (my favorite MP3 player). I am almost totally sure it is because my audio card isn't configured. Could anyone tell me how I would do this . I have included an image of the error message I recieve. Any help would be appriciated.

http://img105.imageshack.us/my.php?i...apshot27ni.png

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So it works in games, other media players you have installed (try xmms, xine, realplayer, mplayer, anything else) it works in all of them?

But not in Amarok... are you sure it is just not playing sound? or is it not playing media files of a certain type?

When I first posted this that was the case but now I don't get any sound anywhere. I knew however that in amaroK when I first posted that it was playing because the bars were going up and down and the speakers were on. Any suggestions?

When you go into YAST > Hardware > Soundcard, do you see multiple sound cards? or a single sound card. My immediate thought is you have onboard sound, which is being found before the sound card, thus the sound card outputs no sound, while the onboard does.

If I am right, you will need to turn off the PC. When you turn it on again, enter the bios, usually by holding DEl, F1, F12... depends on maker. Anywho, go into the bios, and there should be a section for onboard peripherals, you will have to turn off the onboard Audio. Save and Exit Bios, and it will reboot.

SuSe should now recognize your good card only, and you should have sound.

It does display another card (http://img80.imageshack.us/my.php?i...napshot15lp.png) and when I try to delete it nothing happens and when I try to edit it YaST crashes. This seems odd to me because I do not have onboard sound. Any help would be appriciated.

I can't see that image at all. It doesn't view. You need to be using a much more reliable image host. That one gets Farked all the damn time. Mostly everytime a new photoshop goes up, and all the rest of the time it just isn't reliable.
Oh, I bet you have onboard sound. They almost haven't made a board in 10 years without it. Whether you are USING it or not is another issue. Which you probably aren't. But check the bios, I would be willing to be a ton you have it. Otherwise you wouldn't have 2 cards listed as loaded. Don't worry, when you take it out in the bios, it will be automatically removed from the listing(was for me when I had that issue).

Hopefully this link will be better (http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c1.../snapshot1.png) I am absolutly sure that my computer has no built in sound. I checked that back and it has no audio ports and I checked the bios and it has no audio options. The motherboard is a p2-99 (http://www.dealtime.com/xPF-Asustek_Intel_440ZX_Chipset) from 2000. Any assistance would be appriciated.

oookay... That "Sound Card" is really odd.

As for your other card, does it always say not configured? Because you shouldn't have any sound while it is not configured, you will need to configure it. Then you will need to check with something like kmix or alsamixer to double check its sound is on, not muted. Let's get that one configured, and then if we can get it working, worry about that null "Sound Card."

This is crazy but now something has happen and I can get audio out of xine but for some reason when I tell amaroK to use the xine engine I get an error "xine was unable to initilize any audio-drivers." I don't know if this is a hardware problem anymore though. I would appricate any help you can offer.