Sound Card, module loaded, no sound

[soleblazer]

Greetings,

I am a Solaris admin and rarely use Linux for sound applications. But I have been fed up as of late with other OS's and decided to run Suse full time at home. My sound card is a via ac97 chipset. Suse install recongnized it right away, the modules do show as being loaded. I cannot get sound to come out though. Does anyone know where I should start to fix this? dmesg doesnt show any conflicts, and it shows that it loaded the mod.

Any suggestions appreciated.

JC

[Jinx]

Greetings,

If the ac97 module comes up when you run "lsmod", then it is loaded. One thing to check is permissions to /dev/dsp <-- sound device... you may not have permissions to it if you are operating it as a standard user.

Also what program are you using with your soundcard? XMMS? If you are using ALSA drivers (which I don't think you are) you may need to increase the volume through the ALSA mixer.

/usr/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/ has a SOUND howto in it... give that a read too.

Cya round
Jinx