Strange Sound Problem

Hi all, well the first thing I’d like to say is, I really like this new version. Mainly because I’ve got an ATI graphics card and I didn’t have to load in ‘safemode’ this time before installing the ATI drivers. So thank you!

The only problem I’ve encountered so far is with my soundcard - a Soundblaster Audigy (basic version). I’m dual booting with XP and followed the exact same procedure as with 11.1. Used GParted to shrink the Windows partition (and yes, I did defragment beforehand) First there was no sound with Opensuse, which didn’t really bother me too much as I assumed I needed to d/l some drivers, so fine. I restarted and booted into Windows and find that I have no sound in any applications, yet they appear to be playing, mp3, waves etc and no problems indicated by windows or other programs, in effect the card is fine but not outputting. Reinstalled drivers - no success. Uninstalled the soundcard from Device Manager, didn’t work either. In the end I had to physically remove the card, reboot into windows, then shutdown, insert the card again, then install the drivers. This fixed the problem, but anytime I boot into Opensuse, the same problem occurs, very strange. I’m thinking there may have been a problem during the partitioning stage, maybe some stubborn little windows file didn’t want to move during defrag’ and got lost. That’s the only idea I have at the moment. Tried to remove the Grub Bootloader with ‘fixmbr’ command, but it still loads. Any help/suggestions or questions appreciated.

Cheers and thanks for OpenSUSE

toiletrolltube

I think if you shutdown when leaving suse, wait a minute. Then boot windows, it may work. Partitioning and install has nothing to do with it.

Thanks caf4926 :slight_smile: I’ll try that next time.

It worked and thanks again. Can’t believe I overlooked such a simple solution.

It’s OK. Enjoy;)