The Thinkpad 600E’s sound system is notoriously stupid, but others have made it work.
This is a fresh install of openSUSE 11.0.
Using either Yast or alsaconf, choosing the CS4236 chipset, I can configure the sound card, and it will play the little test tune, but as soon as I reboot, the audio interface disappears.
What am I missing?
I do not know what this means “the audio interface disappears”. Does that mean the following test sound no longer works? Try this speaker test (copy and paste it) into a Gnome-terminal / konsole
speaker-test -Dplug:front -c2 -l5 -twavyou should hear a lady’s voice saying “left front” , “right front” 5 times.
When you state “the audio interface disappears” does that mean the test sound does work, but you have no mixer?
If sound no longer works (after a reboot), what happens if you open a gnome-terminal/konsole and type:su -c 'rcalsasound restart’and then test your sound. Does that work?
On reboot, there’s no sound from any application and the KMix speaker icon in the tray is red with an X through it.
In the Yast sound config, the just-added soundcard is no longer there.
But, I just went through the process of uninstalling the pulse-audio stuff, which demanded that I uninstall VLC, which I did. I then re-installed VLC, which dragged along the pulse-audio library.
After doing this, the audio appears to be working correctly and persists through reboots.
I wouldn’t have expected this to depend on the order of installation of components.
While there can be dependencies, I think there is more to this. Likely there is one or more pulse applications that are different, or perhaps have different versions after the re-install.
Glad to read sound is working now!!