[plug] SuSE 9.2 sound problem

[Jim Householder]

Hi

Recently I was using YaST2 package management.  I clicked the wrong 
icon, and, rather than wait for it to complete (would have been 
harmless), I tried to kill it and click the correct icon.

Bad move.  Keyboard and mouse were both disabled.  Pressing the reset 
button got me up, but I had to watch hundreds (I think) of reiserfs 
transactions scroll past.

Everything appeared back to normal, except the sound.  When I boot, I 
get the following:

Control Center / Sound & Multimedia / Sound System / Test Sound
   works.  I hear the test sound fine.
tvtime - no sound.  The tv card's line-out ---> sound card line-in.

Now do
System / YaST / Hardware / Sound

Sometimes when I click Finish directly I get sound.  Other times I have 
to click Volume and discover that Line volume has been reset to 0. 
Changing it back to 70 restores the tv sound.  The change does not 
appear to be kept.

Running /etc/init.d/alsastart restart
   instead of starting YaST does not have any effect.  Is there an arts 
configuration file somewhere?  There is no change to asound.state.

Any clues?

TIA
Jim

ps  Does SuSE have a Services screen similar to Mandrake's?