Greetings all, I changed my mind. I have subscribed- how else would I get an answer? I hope this list is more active than the list for KB3. I have openSuse 11.1 with KDE 4.1.3 (release 4.11.1). The Kernel is 2.6.27.42-0.1-pae i686. The CPU is AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2200+ (Socket A /462). The Sound card is architecture AC'97. Its Nvidia nForce Rev2. Yes, the computer is old, and yes, I have to upgrade to openSuse 11.2 und a newer KDE, but I won't be able to for the next two months. I installed Skype five or six months ago. At first, there were no problems. Then, two weeks ago, all of a sudden the sound cut out- I can hear when someone was speaking to me, but they can't hear me. The system log says the kernel driver is broken. What is says exactly is: “pulseaudio[5533]: module-alsa-source.c: Your kernel driver is broken: it reports a volume range from 18.00 dB to 18.00 dB which makes no sense.” So after lots of fiddling and searching to see if the driver might be a packet I could install, I gave up and tried to reinstall it according to the directions here: http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Module-intel8x0 The first step didn't really work: cd /usr/src mkdir alsa cd alsa cp /downloads/alsa-* . When I tried to cp, I got the message that I had to give a destination directory, and I'm only a beginner, so I'm not sure if /downloads/alsa-* was intended to be the source or the destination or what. In the end I downloaded the latest driver, copied it into the alsa directory, and unpacked it. When I ran the configure script, I got the following message: “checking for kernel linux/autoconf.h … no” and “please install the package with the full kernel sources for your distribution or use –with-kernel = dir option to specify another directory with kernel.” I did that already. I had to; that isn't the first file it couldn't find. The kernel sources are under /usr . But I've searched all directories, and there is no “autoconf.h” file. Can I correct something in the configure script, and if so, what exactly? I haven't written many scripts, and the last one I wrote was a while ago. At the end, I got this message: “Please run the configure script as first... if [ -L /include/sound ]; then \ rm -f /include/sound; \ ln -sf /usr/src/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.22.1/include sound /include/sound; \ else \ rm -rf /include/sound; \ install -d -m 755 -g root -o root /include/sound; \ for f in include/sound/*.h; do \ install -m 644 -g root -o root $f /include/sound; \ done \ fi install: cannot stat 'include/sound/*.h' : no such file or directory make: *** [install-headers] Error 1” Can someone help me? I'd be really grateful- some of my friends don't have the option of a “normal” telephone, and depend on internet per satellite and electricity from a generator. Thank you very much for your time. Rane Thompson ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
