I was looking over the forums today, trying to find the pros and cons to the different distributions, as i am thinking of switching from SuSe 8.2 because of a nagging sound issue. It didn't take long to realise that there are quite a few people that have similar issues on all platforms!
Here's what i am wondering, What IRQ # are your sound cards on and is there anything else on that same IRQ.
In my situation i am on IRQ #5 and so is my cordless keyboard and mouse (USB). This is as, far as i can tell, the conflict but i can't change the irq on the K/M combo without losing them.
SuSe does find my sound card but won't initiate it no matter what i try to do.
In closing if this is a general problem in all linux distributions then we should be able to do something about it, or maybe it is just my problem.
see more of the problem and the measures taken to try and correct it here
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=100009