Re: sound problems

thanks for the reply,

the whole digital/audio/ide discrepancy has never been an issue before. i 
don't have a digital cable, i use audio for playback and ide (digital audio 
extraction) for ripping. that always seemed to work automatically, even on 
linux. but knowing alsa, they probably wanted to add another setting on their 
mixer ( i counted 37 on mandrake 10 for my audigy!!!). i think i mentioned 
earlier, i have sound disabled in control center (i'm not worried about 
system sounds at this point!). this is what i did,

-enabled sound in kde control center
- changed to oss
- tried kscd - no joy
-tried xmms - no joy
-changed to digital audio extraction in xmms - cd audio works
-disabled sound in kde control center - cd audio still works on xmms

there seems to be no rhyme or reason to these problems. it was easier to set 
up an isa sound card with parameters with oss. my guess is there is a setting 
in alsa mixer for this. i found something called 'audigy cd' that sounded 
like it might fit and was unmuted but at zero. pushed it up to 80 and 
switched back to analog in xmms - l no sound.

i am extremely frustrated with this issue and suse 9.1 in general. i'm also 
diappointed to hear there is no support for sound. they probably don't think 
it's necessary?! is this a novell thing? i didn't have any problems with 
sound on 8.1. is it the 2.6 kernel? is it alsa? ( i've had a lot of problems 
alsa elsewhere - namely fedora core2 x86_64). anyway, suse slapped this mess 
together so they are responsible!

anyhow, i apprecaite the help i'm getting here. and since i laid down a good 
chunk of dough on suse pro (ha-ha) 9.1 i'm committed (forced) to finding 
solutions. hope there are some clues in my latest attempts. thanks