to *, with sound problems:

check only 2 things:
1. that driver for your card is loaded
2. that there is no other program that locks the sound device.


You should all learn where are the logs, because search for errors in
linux should ALWAYS begin in analyzing log files.

system logs are in /var/log
user X-session logs are in ~/.xsession-errors

Bye,
Max.


Kuo Kan Liang wrote:
> Dear SL users,
> 
> FYI:
> I started to use SL since version 4.0 so I have no comments on previous
> versions of SL, but with
> SL 4.X and RH enterprise (ES 3 or AS 3, I forgot), I have problem with
> sound card if I use KDE.
> No problem under GNOME, though.
> 
> I understand that RH sets GNOME as default WM. Besides, I prefer nedit
> as my editor and nedit
> has some problem with KDE until the latest version. However, I have to
> use KDE because if I use
> GNOME and XDMCP from Windows machines, the display refreshing is
> unbelievably slow.
> With KDE, everything is fast. This may not have anything to do with the
> sound card problem, but
> this is the reason that I switch from GNOME to KDE and the reason why I
> also encounter sound
> problem.
> 
>> I recently upgraded my Dell Optiplex GX280 from SL3.0.4 to SL4.2.  Since
>> doing so sound no longer works, whereas it did under SL3.  If I open the
>> Volume Control app I get a dialog box reading "Sorry, no mixer elements
>> and/or devices found".  Any ideas?
>>  
>>
> 


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