oldcpu,

you gave me a bunch to work with, took awhile.

the mic's and pcm kept coming up set to 100%. after manually editing asound.state to mute the mics and set pcm to 0, the system could start w/o all the squealing and timeouts. after these changes, the lenovo-ms7195-dig option appears to be working. this all seemed so unnecessary, but since i come from old SVR3 i'm not much for gui config thingys anyway.

i also had to enable 6ch mode in asound.state for the lfe and center channels to work.

off to test all this some more...

a few more questions please:
-- where did you find the options list for the alc883?
-- how did you determine from the report that no security patch kits had been applied? (patch kits, sorry vms terminology.)
-- where do i find what security patches need to be applied w/o all the auto-update stuff (that i've disabled. i'll maintain my system.)
-- one of the good things about moving from slackware to suse is that i've not had to reconfigure a suse kernel. do suse updates usually require kernel rebuilds?


thanks.