[Sussex] no sound on my desktop

[Steve Dobson]

Dave

On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 01:41:21PM +0000, David Chapman wrote:
> Can anybody tell me why I have no sound on my desktop.
> The sound card (SB512) is definitly configured and working because other
> users have sound.
> The problem might stem from when I did a reinstall.

What a new kernel installed as part of the re-install? 
And if so, does that kernel have sound support for your card 
configured in.

> /home is on a seperate disk and SuSE would not let me add /home/david
> saying directory allready exists so I did not add any users
> At first loggin as root I renamed /home/david /home/1david
> added user david
> deleted the new directory /home/david
> then renamed /home/1david /home/david
> 
> There's probably a better way but it worked.
> Except the sound does not work for me.

Assuming that you added a user with the "adduser" script then
try adding the "--no-create-home" option if the directory 
already exists.

Steve