[sirguy]

Originally Posted by oldcpu

I don't think there is a bug that completely blocks sound. I have the latest updates to my test box with openSUSE-11.0 and KDE-3.5.9, and sound "just works" with vlc, mplayer, flash, xine ... etc ....

Maybe you need to disable pulse audio? Try the solution of this user:
sontek ( John M. Anderson ) » Achieve Zen with openSUSE 11.0 (i.e Get rid of pulse audio)
which is to remove alsa-plugins-pulse

I may give that a TRY. I will also use my 90 day installation support. I haven't made a support call since suse 9.0. or 9.1. but I might make one on this problem to see what the official word from Novell support is on this.

My guess on the cause may have to do with user hardware. I have an ASUS m3a MB which has an on board 8ch HD Audio system (Azalia ). Especially if this isn't happening across the board. On the other hand it worked after initial installation before I began updating the system and adding the abilities to play all types of multimedia.