Odd problem - I’m running KDE 4.4 on openSUSE 11.1 64-bit. I am getting no sound. I have tried testing in YaST and get nothing. If I try the KDE settings, nothing comes up - I click on it and the settings window closes. KMix is showing volume as being 100%.
KDE-4.4 in 11.1 ? Sorry, thats too cutting edge for me. I won’t help something that cutting edge as the problem could come from a cutting edge KDE or it coud come from elsewhere.
IMHO with openSUSE-11.1 one is better sticking with KDE-4.3.5, in the knowedge that the openSUSE-11.2 “official fixes” for KDE-4.3.5 also get migrated to the stable (but “unofficial KDE stable directory” ) for openSUSE-11.1. And hence problems with sound due to KDE4 should not occur.
My recommendation, which you probably do not want to follow, is to roll back completely to KDE-4.3.5.