No sound after installing SuSE 9.3. Sound works when I boot to Windows. Checked volume settings in kmix and yast, volume is turned up. No sound when tested in yast. System has a "Sound Blaster Live 24-bit" pci sound card. Sound configuration in yast reports 2 cards, both running. Number [0] is "82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (Ich6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller" and number [1] is "SB Audigy LS". Both are reported as running. "lspci" reports "Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy LS". My guess is that if the Sound Blaster card was changed to snd-0 that I'd have sound. I say this because the speaker jack is plugged into the pci card. There's only one jack on the box so I have no way to get at the other device which I'm guessing is on the mother board. Does anyone know how to change the order of the devices (make the SBAudigy LS be snd-0 and the 82801FB snd-1)? Does anyone have another solution or idea to resolve this problem? thanks

disable sound support in the bios settings, you don't need it with the soundblaster installed.

thanks rshaw. Disabled sound support in bios and deleted entry for that card in yast. Now I have sound when tested in yast, but no sound playing a cd using kscd (volume is turned up). Any ideas? thanks

Little gray wire connected between the drive and the sound card?

device is connected, it works when booted to windows. Sound only seems to play from system utilities, ie: sound test in yast, when you 1st log in, etc. It doesn't play from applications like kscd, kaffeine, etc. Any idea?

Did you ck kmix to be sure that cd has the grn light on and that the slider bar is turned up. I believe it's under the input tab.

under the kmix output tab,sliders are turned up, mute buttons are missing from kmix gui. The kmix input tab displays a blank panel. Read kmix documentation and it indicated that there should be a red/green button above each slider. Can't find a kmix configuration file or any way to re-enable the mute buttons. Ran alsamixer and nothing was not muted. Any ideas would be appreciated.

hey... I have an Audigy 2 ZS gamer, and am in the same boat as you. What I found works is I run the mixer in the background, and I at least get audio with the messaging program. (I'm a total when it comes to linux, I just started out).

I'm among the many that installed SUSE 9.3 (from 9.1) and lost all sound, but finally got it going.

I tried getting YAST to configure my card and ran the modprobe commands that suseplugger gave me on its Details/Driver page, to no avail. I also checked the KDE control panel to make sure that the sound system was still enabled. Finally I ran alsaconf, and even though it said it worked and that it played the sound test successfully, nothing came out.

So I rebooted, and now all the sound is just fine.

I remember, now that it's been quite a while, that I originally had the same issue with 9.1: I had to reboot after running alsaconf. Moreover, this time before I rebooted (and after I ran alsaconf), I couldn't run alsamixer- it gave some kind of permission error on the device. After rebooting, it runs fine.

Hope that helps others get their sound. Anybody got any ideas as to why the reboot was neccessary in my case?

Craig

I've got all of my newly-installed Sound Blaster Live 24 working with the exception of CD audio. I know the card and connection are working, as everything works when I start up in XP. When I open kmix (or any other volume control), I don't even see a selection/adjustment for the Aux/CD input. Has anyone else experienced this?

I just installed the latest alsa packages from Packman, so I don't believe that's the issue.