[ale] Sound of Silence

[jimmyc at speedfactory.net (Jim Philips)]

On Friday 20 May 2005 07:59 pm, Cor van Dijk wrote:
> I run a dual boot SuSE8.2 and SuSE9.2 on a ASUS P4P800SE mobo
> with an Intel ICH5 built-in soundcard.
>
> The sound works fine on SuSE8.2, but does not even start on SuSE9.2.
> The BIOS reports the presence of a soundcard, no problem there.
> Interrupts and ioports for the "card" appear to be the same on both os's.
> I have tried rebuilding hardware sound from scratch with yast.
> I have tried the "options" for the AC'97 sound configuration.
> I have posted a message to SuSE, received automated response.
> So far no luck with any of these.
>
> Any suggestions will be appreciated. Cor van Dijk.


Cor,

What drivers are available for your card? Are they included in ALSA? Is that 
the sound system you're using? Have you tried building the drivers into the 
kernel (if they aren't included)? Are you running KDE or Gnome? 

All of these questions matter. KDE & Gnome use different sound daemons and 
what works for one doesn't always work for the other.