On Saturday 24 November 2007 01:16, Gene A. Anderson wrote: > I'm a fairly new Linux user who is completely new to Opensuse. I have > recently installed the Gnome desktop version of Opensuse 10.3 to an old > Compaq Presario desktop computer that also can boot up in Windows 2000. > > When I login the desktop icon for the volume control has a red X. When > I click on it I get the following error message: "This volume control > did not find any elements and/or devices to control. This means either > you don't have the right GStreamer plugins installed or that you don't > have a sound card configured." > > The YaST sound configuration window shows that the ESS1988 Allegro-1 was > configured as sound card number 0. It also lists the driver as > snd_maestro3. So that seems like the card is being found. > > Most bizarre to me is that in the login window when my cursor is in the > empty field in which to type my user name, I can hit the backspace key > and get a healthy beep out of the speakers as if the sound card is > correctly configured and ready to work and somehow the login process > disrupts that, because after logging in I can get no sound whatsoever > out of the speakers. > > I'm looking for any suggestions and I'm willing to provide any > information that would be helpful. Please remember that I am something > of a beginner, so please try to keep that in mind when advising me. > Thank you. > > > Gene Anderson in Taiwan Hi Gene,
I'm betting all works fine if you log in as root? Have you checked your system.log (/var/log/messages) for any resmgr errors? Carl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
