To put it simple:
There are no sound.
The computer is a laptop (znote 3415w) with an Intel Corporation "SantaRosa"-card, and has an Intel Core 2 Duo prosessor

"lspci | grep -i audio" gives:
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)

running opensuse 10.3