numbercruncher

Problem solved :-) I installed SUSE 10.1

Thanks for your reply. No time today to try the alsa route to recovery? Too many ailing Win NB's to attend to (Clients) Yep, I updated everything. Presently I am using Quick Books for the accounting package, but help is at hand :-) South African "Cubit" 2.7 will be available sometime in March. If this works then I can dispose of Win 98 and XP entirely. I have experimented running QB on Linux via Crossover Office. QB is heavily dependant on MS. One can export data to Excel format only. It needs IE and a mapi compliant e-mail program. I hav e done all the testing, but it just doesn't work. I must be one of the few people to have had the "Big Blue E" on a linux desktop? I didn't enjoy the experience :-( I guess I will miss Google Earth and Clickatell too?

Help? Until 2 weeks ago I was running SUSE 10 on a Compaq Presario 700 no problems. Perfect sound. The notebook had progressed from SUSE 8 through to the current version with no problems. My desktops are running Win98 for my bookkeeping system. Then some 20 days ago the notebook was stolen. In search of a replacement I took a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Pro (V2040) It came shipped with XP Pro pre-installed, so I decided that I would create a dual-boot machine... because of Accounting prog. that I haven't yet found a Linux solution for :-( and this seemed like a good way forward? Using Win 98 I formatted the HDD in FAT32, then installed XP, and then SUSE 10. Sound was fine initially on both OS's. Then I downloaded the latest SUSE updates, and now the sound is causing me grief on the SUSE side. I can't hear a thing, and all my family can hear is a highpithched buzz? The Win side is fine. Any ideas?