Hi Scope,
Sorry I usually post in the Slackware forum.
The file i was talking about won't be in SuSE.
Does the computer remember the configuration when you reboot?
If 'alsactl store' does the job then you are okay.
alsa's not really my forte. I guess i shouldn't have got involved!
I never had much success at getting onboard sound to work in Slack.
Does SuSE have gnome? I have it on my laptop but have barely used it yet.
And if so how do i switch to Gnome from KDE, considering it boots into run level 4.
in slack i would run xwmconfig......
Please note to anyone reading i made a mistake in my ealier post, it was supposed to be:
'alsactl restore 0' rather than store
![Embarrassment](https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/images/smilies/redface.gif)