Hardware Help Please (Compaq CQ50)

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Originally Posted by mjung79

Well, after following this, sound immediately started working on the speakers.

Excellent! Congratulations on sorting this. Glad to read sound works.

Note, because you have the alsa-driver-kmp-pae package installed, there is a slight risk if the openSUSE-11.1 kernel is updated, it may break your sound. If that happens, you just need to conduct the same alsa-driver-kmp-pae update to get the latest version of alsa-driver-kmp-pae that will likely be built for a new kernel. We are fortunate on openSUSE that a SuSE-GmbH packager for sound (who is also an alsa driver developer) packages alsa rpms to handle openSUSE kernel updates.