Hello Folks,

I've upgraded from SuSE 9.1 to 10.0. Everything works great! It's blazing fast, but has its share of bugs.

1. The sound cannot be configured using YAST, no matter what you try. I can configure it using alsaconf and afterwards it works perfect, until the next reboot. The Toshiba Satellite has Intel 82801DB/DBL/DMB (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller chip using the intel8x0 driver. I've found that it is certified to work with Linux. During YAST configuration, whether gui or text mode, it generates an error: "an error occured during the installation of 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'07 Audio Controller. The kernel module snd-intel8x0 for sound support could not be loaded. This can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters." I've tried tweaking YAST with every setting, but you cannot even delete the settings and start fresh. This worked fine under 9.1 version. Current version is using kernel 2.6.13-15-default. For example games such as Frozen Bubble are silent, and if you try playing audio CDs, the XMMS crashes. After running alsaconf, I've tried to make the changes permament running SUSEconfig afterwards, but to no avail. I haven't yet found the boot script that is the cause of the problem. Which leads me to a second point.

2. I got very comfy using the gentoo file browser, so I am very disappointed that the upgrade ditched it from the system. Downloaded the sources and tried to reinstall it, when I hit my head against the wall of the missing gtk-config while running ./configure. I have installed all the glib and gtk-devel files, but still not able to find the gtk-config among the files. I'm sure trying to build other programs I will run into the same snag. I've tried other ways to fetch it, too, but still to no avail. I found old versions of gtk-config, but forcing a square peg into a round hole will lead to an upredictable behavior. Is there any other way to check if SuSE 10.0 has the gtk-config file buried somewhere?

Do I really need the gtk-config? Not really. The gentoo configure script is checking for GTK - version >= 1.2.0 when it cannot find the gtk-config file. Apparently gtk-1.2.10-888 is already installed. Can I fool the configure script to work with the newer gtk version? I've tried adding 'PREFIX=/usr/share/doc/packages/gtk' but that didn't fly either.

All suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Joe

Did find a kool way to search for dep files:

>pin gtk-config

If the file ARCHIVES_10.0.gz is not found, you will be prompted for admin priviledges and to insert Disk 1 in CD-ROM/DVD drive.

Joe

Hello Folks,

There are two solutions for the "no sound" problem after upgrading from SuSE 9.x to 10.0. One is to do a complete new install rather than an upgrade, which is not a good solution, considering there are quite a few users who do not want to lose all their files via this route. Consider a backup of /home, /opt, and /etc directories a must before attempting this.

The other solution is to edit /etc/modprobe.d/sound file as root. Mine had two entries in it

alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0

Delete one of these lines and save. I deleted the first one, but if I deleted the second one, it would have probably worked too. Reboot. After rebooting run YAST->Hardware->Sound and click Edit. You can choose auto configure, as I had done. This time YAST will load the driver and save settings. You should have no more problems with sound afterwards.

On the second point, the 5 CD-ROMs do not have the same software as the DVD does! This is not obvious by any stretch of the imagination after reading the manuals. See the release notes! The Gentoo file browser is included among the systems tab. Consider deleting previous gentoo configuration files before installing the later version.

Kindest regards,

Joe

That did not help me at all. I have an Asus M3N and my onboard sound worked well and still works well (in another partition on same laptop) under SuSE 9.3.

Any other suggestions. It will NOT get past the message that an error occurred when I reboot and try to set the soundcard in yast.

--Keith

For missing gtk-config errors try to install gtk-devel for me worked (on SuSE 10.0)

ftp://ftp.novell.hu/pub/mirrors/ftp....0-893.i586.rpm

Thanks for the response, but I don't have a problem with gtk-config. Just have NO SOUND whatsoever. I'm going back to SuSE 9.3 --it works without all the fuss.

--Keith