I have played with trying to get sound working on my new laptop running Suse 8 for weeks now, and here is what I have got too regarding getting the sound working, now when I try and play an MP3 I get the error message from XMMS that either it "couldn't open audio, please check that the correct output plug in is selected, no other programs are blocking the soundcard and that your audiocard is configured properly". OK so I go to the YAST module to configure the soundcard, the soundcards that are available are the AC97 audio controller, I click this one and then configure, I get the options that the sound card AC97 audio controller will be configured as the second sound card (snd-card-1) with the options for either:
1. Quick automatic setup
2. Normal Setup
3. Advanced setup with possibility to change options
I check the normal setup and click next, then I get "an error occurred during the installation of AC97 audio controller the kernel module snd-via686 for sound support could not be loaded. This can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRG parameters" My only option at this point it to click abort, Then the crazy thing is XMMS will now play my audio file until I either quit the application or log out/in. What should I do besides leave the system running all the time with XMMS open?
1. Quick automatic setup
2. Normal Setup
3. Advanced setup with possibility to change options
I check the normal setup and click next, then I get "an error occurred during the installation of AC97 audio controller the kernel module snd-via686 for sound support could not be loaded. This can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRG parameters" My only option at this point it to click abort, Then the crazy thing is XMMS will now play my audio file until I either quit the application or log out/in. What should I do besides leave the system running all the time with XMMS open?