[ale] SuSE 10.2, can't log in as root

[Paul Cartwright]

On Monday 08 January 2007 09:20, Jim wrote:
> When I try to run any of the system utilities, such as yast, I get the
> normal little box that asks me for my root password. ?However, it tells
> me it is wrong. ?Sure, I can fat finger with the best of them, but so
> far I'm about 0 for 233. I'm not that bad! 
>
> Has anyone run into that before? ?10.1 worked fine, but I was trying to
> get my sound working so I upgraded to 10.2. ?By the way, the sound will
> not work on SuSE. ?It works on XP so I know the hardware is working.
> Short of installing the latest alsa, I've just about exhausted all the
> suggestions that I've googled.

I am running 10.2. I did a new install, onto a nice new DELL XPS core-duo 
platform. I copied my old /home info over. Running KDE.
sound is working just fine, but this wasn't an upgrade. The mixer is 
different, and only has 2 sliders-volume and digital.
-- 
Paul Cartwright
registered Linux user #... oh I forget!