Not sure if this is the correct place but I couldn’t see anywhere more appropriate so here’ll do.
I installed windows 7 RC1, which itself works fine, but as a result I’ve lost all sound in SuSE, multiple installs, though all running KDE if that makes a differemce. Other than the sound problem my optical drives both don’t seem to load, well, one loaded a disk once but I couldn’t get it to do it again.
The previous install I’dswitched from pulseaudio to esound, however the new one is still on pulse so I don’t think that makes a difference.
I find it difficult to believe that installation of windows7 rc1 would have any impact on your sound under Linux. Its more likely that some thing else happening at the same time with your Linux, which you did not notice, caused the sound to stop working.
For example, earlier this week there was a release of an updated kernel for openSUSE-11.1 (and also for other openSUSE versions) and that broke the sound on some users’s PCs.
There is an audio troubleshooting guide here if you wish to try get the sound working: SDB:AudioTroubleshooting - openSUSE
I’m off on vacation in 3 days (flying to Asia for a 3-week holiday) so I may not be able to help wrt sound if you struggle with the guide.
For those with non-functioning sound as a result of the new 2.6.27.23 kernel, the SuSE-GmbH packager has now released the rpms for the update to 1.0.20 of alsa for the 2.6.27.23 kernel. Note this is on a special multimedia repository and not on the standard “update” repository.
There is guidance here for doing the update:
Alsa-update - openSUSE
Note one MUST send six zypper commands, being certain to pick the one’s specific to one’s openSUSE version. I recommend one optimize the alsa apps to be installed to match what one has on one’s PC already. … and also the second last command in the 3 command group should be specific to one’s kernel. Do NOT install multiple alsa-driver-kmp-<packages> … Only install the ONE that is applicable.
Thank you for the reply I’ll try following that next time I’m signed on on linux, hopefully it solves the problem.