10.3 Audio Problems

Thanks in advance for any insight on this:

I recently migrated from 10.0 to 10.3 where the sound worked perfectly on 10.0 but has problems on 10.3.

The sound actually works from all applications like listening to mp3; Gnome panel startup sound; audio on streaming video, etc. I noticed the problem first trying to get skype working. Got errors like "problem with sound device", or the system would lock up completely (IRQ conflict?).

Yast -> sound configuration reports: Not configured P5GD1-VW Mainboard. Editing the configuration reports:
Kernel module snd_hda_intel could not be loaded. This may be caused by invalid IO or IRQ problems.

I've been chasing this for several days, and find it odd that the sound for the most part works.

It looks from /proc that the driver was loaded, to wit:

snd_hda_intel 273180 0 - Live 0xe08e2000
snd_pcm 82564 1 snd_hda_intel, Live 0xe0873000
snd_timer 26756 1 snd_pcm, Live 0xe0840000
snd 58164 3 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm,snd_timer, Live 0xe0849000

If this can't be easily solved, I'm more than willing to disable the on board audio and buy a sound card, but which one?

Best,
Romansky

More... I followed the Troubleshooting tutorial, and I was able to configure the card in a terminal session with alsaconf. Skype now works properly, except that I can't here any of the sound events (ringing, hang-up). How to turn on sound events in Suse (assuming that's the problem)?

Best,
romansky