[plug] SuSE 9.2 sound problem

[Jim Householder]

Carl Gherardi wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 22:38:41 +0800, Jim Householder
> <nofixed at westnet.com.au> wrote:
> 
>>Hi
>>
>>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.
>>
> 
> 
> Alsa defaults to muting the sound card.
>  
> 
>>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?
>>
> 
> 
> I've been informed that most "audio guys" like to have a default
> setting that gets reset whenever a machine reboots or alsa restarts,
> so the settings are never saved on shutdown of the service.
> 
> I dont know suse to well, but under redhat/fedora the mixer settings
> for the card are stored in /etc/alsa.d/cardname (if the module name
> for your soundcard is snd-hdsp then /etc/alsa.d/hdsp) if the file
> doesn't exist then the soundcard is muted by default.
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> Carl G

Thanks Carl.  There is no /etc/alsa.d in SuSE unfortunately.  However I 
did find a posting on a SuSE forum indicating that kdemultimedia3-mixer 
overwrites the settings.  It went on to say the package is not needed 
and should be deleted.

I deleted it and the problem appears solved.

Jim