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Default Re: sound problems on Gateway M-6874h
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Originally Posted by vasilys View Post
... deleting the sound card from YaST and configuring the sound with alsaconf solved that issue.
Super ! Congratulations ...

Some more sound stuff ... (actually, some multimedia stuff) ... As you have likely noted, openSUSE has the ascii sequence "open" in front of "SUSE". This is because since version 10.1 of SuSE, the Linux distribution of SuSE was renamed to openSUSE. This went hand in hand with a philosophical shift, where greater emphasis was placed inside openSUSE to include open source free software. Open source free software is software that has the basic freedoms as defined by the free software movement: Free Software Philosophy - openSUSE
ie it means "free" in the sense that one is
  • "free to copy",
  • one has "free access to the source code",
  • one is "free to modify the code",
  • one is "free to give away original version", and
  • one is "free to give away their modified versions".
This name change to "openSUSE" also meant openSUSE does NOT include proprietary software nor include proprietary drivers, nor include proprietary multimedia codecs. Since most multimedia requires proprietary codecs, it does mean that "as installed" openSUSE will not play most types of media that are circulating in the internet.

Fortunately, that is easy to fix to provide one's openSUSE with superb multimedia capabilities.

The 1st thing that I recommend you do (assuming your PC has internet access) is set up your PC's openSUSE Software Package Management. I recommend you select 4 repositories for your Software Package Management (where repositories are in essence file servers on the internet with applications, drivers, codecs) packaged for openSUSE. The 4 I recommend are OSS, Non-OSS, Update and Packman. Just those 4. No others. If you added others I recommend you remove them. The reason being there can be conflicts between applications in different repositories, and only once one acquires the knowledge as to how to identify and solve problems between multiple repositories, should one then add more than the basic 4 I recommend. There is guidance here for how to add those 4: Repositories/11.1 - openSUSE-Community You will probably find the 1st three OSS, Non-OSS, Update are already added, and you just need to add the 4th (Packman). Packman provides the 3rd party applications/codecs that you will need for multimedia. In particular, do NOT add videolan, as it is known to have applications incompatible with those packaged by Packman.

So, once those 4 are selected/enabled, then go to YaST > Software > Software Management and change the "filter" to "search" and then search for and install the 3rd party software you need to enhance your multimedia on your PC. I recommend you install the Packman packaged version of the following applications as a start (replacing any Novell/openSUSE versions which will be crippled): amarok, amarok-xine, amarok-packman, libxine1, xine-ui, smplayer, mplayerplug-in, vlc, w32codec-all, libffmpeg0, ffmpeg, libquicktime0, libxvidcore4, xvidcore.

Note you can tell the packman packaged versions by the "pm" in the version number.

Once you do that, you should have some reasonable multimedia capabilities to get you started.

You can read more on Packman Packaged applications here:
PackMan :: Website
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