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

[sarah31]

If you have an audio mixer(such as aumix) you may get some succes out of playing with that. As well there may be a configuration tool that you can adjust IRQs or test the card. I remember having success with both but I use Mandrake.

Don't expect your trouble to go away with Linux. My experience with several OSes has shown me that there is not one out there that does not have some bugs!

[soleblazer]

Actually it seems to only not work in certain applications, mp3mixer seems to work.

Whats the best MP3 player for Linux? How does everyone get mp3's? I had been using morpheus..

[sarah31]

LimeWire for linux may be your only option.
http://www.limewire.com

(i think anyway)

You may have trouble with the install. If you do try this thread:
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showthread.php?s=5c8bc3e6fe865dc6085c61f54a5052ea&t hreadid=4127 (http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showthread.php?s=5c8bc3e6fe865dc6085c61f54a5052ea&threadid=4127)

Good luck! (PS Keep working at the soundcard you should be able to get it going)

This may interest you:
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/hardware/southbridge_alsa.html

[ 22 November 2001: Message edited by: sarah31 ]

[eXtremist]

Are you using a desktop that has its own sound server? KDE uses aRts, and that causes problems with my sound card. Only a couple of sound programs work with it enabled. ALL work when I disable it.