10.2 Sound problems

[JeepNut]

I've been troubleshooting a sound problem for more than a week and cannot seem to get much help with this. Here's the problem:

Most sound applications work, but Audacity will not playback any files. No preferences settings make any difference so I'm thinking the problem is not with Audacity but with my SuSE installation.

I'm running openSuSE 10.2 and when I check KInfoCenter/Sound this is the report:

Sound Driver: 3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v1.01.12rc1 emulation code)
Kernel: Linux Eugenedacd0ea75 2.6.18.8-0.7-default#1 SMP Tue Oct 2 17:21:08 UTC 2007 i686
Config options: 0

Installed drivers:
Type 10: ALSA emulation

Card Config:
C-Media PCI CMI8738-MC8 (model 6 at 0xd800, irq 74
Audio devices: Not enable in config
Synth devices: Not enabled in config
Midi devices: Not enabled in config
Timers:
31: system timer
Mixers: Not enabled in config


So.... how do I enable audio devices in config? What config?
I've run YaST Hardware and the sound card looks to be installed.
It shows
Index 0
Card Model CMI8738/C3DX PCI Audio Device
It shows:
Configured as sound card number 0
Driver snd/cmipci

If I go to the OTHER tab and click TEST, the test sound plays fine.
I looked in the help file under InfoCenter and none of the files that they refer to exist on my system at all.

Can one of the guru's explain why the InfoCenter DOESN'T show that audio devices are "enabled in config".
Better yet, how do I fix it?
Would it work if I removed the sound card, restarted, reconfigured with NO sound, then reinstalled the sound card and reconfigured the system?
Thanks for any help!

[robin_bga]

Hi,
i suggest that u do the following and see if that will help u, first open yo console and type this command ¨sudo /etc/init.d/alsasound start¨ then after u have done that go to yaST -> Hardware -> Sound, select the card u wand to use and then look at bottom right, just above the finish button, u will see a button called OTHER, click and select ¨set as Primary Card¨ then click finish and restart the xserver (or End that session the relogin, or reboot{recommended}) and thats it.All the applications will pickup the primary sound card, and will use it.

Cheers
Robin