[ale] Sound of Silence. Bypassed.

[Cor van Dijk]

zeb wrote:

>On Wednesday 25 May 2005 08:20 pm, Cor van Dijk wrote:
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>>Geoffrey wrote:
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>>>Cor van Dijk wrote:
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>>>Remove and re-add your sound card through YAST.
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>>Thanks for your response Geoffrey, but I must have done that already at
>>least ten times.
>>Besides, all this talk about the sound being muted is most likely beside
>>the point, because almost all sound  stuff that I fire up complains
>>about the soundcard not being configured. The ones that do not complain
>>either hang or refuse to even appear.
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>>Yast maintains that the soundcard is up and running.
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>>In despair I downloaded
>>    "alsa-driver-1.0.9rc4a.tar.bz2"
>>and did a complete reinstall of all the alsa stuff: no good.
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>>Thanks to all of you who thought about this problem.
>>Whenever I lick the sucker I will post the results, but don't count on
>>anything. Cor van Dijk
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>I am late to this thread, and you probably have already done this..  Did you 
>run "alsaconfig"?
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>Zeb
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I put in a nondescript cheapo pci soundcard ($13.- at Fry's). It got 
detected right away. Not only that, it produces sound!
Therefore, what I suspected all along is most likely true:
the SuSE9.2 driver snd-intel8x0 is broken.
They had it right in 8.2, messed it up in 9.2. Dummkopfen.
Cor van Dijk