OpenSuse Newbie, laptop sound question

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Hi OpenSuse Community! I am a long, long, long time Fedora user, the last 2 versions of Fedora (40 and 41) have left me with no sound from my speakers on my laptop. I recently purchased a Lenovo Legion 9, and here is my sound card:

$ lspci | grep -i audio
00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Raptor Lake High Definition Audio Controller (rev 11)
01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation Device 22bb (rev a1)

I have the nvidia-kmod Fedora package installed and I have applied all available updates to the system but still no sound from the speakers.

I am going to switch to opensuse - tumbleweed and see if I have better luck.
The primary frustration I am having at the moment with Fedora is the lack of any feedback from the mailing lists / forums on even how to go about debugging this issue.

Anyone know if the above soundcard is supported ? Also any guidance per making the swap from Fedora would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance

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@psalm19pix wrote:

Welcome to the forum!!

It’s not clear what you’re anticipating per “guidance to swap from Fedora”. The best option really is to simply install openSUSE from scratch (and read documentation).

As far as the “sound card”, I personally have zero experience … but to further my previous paragraph, a second option is to create a Live bootable USB, whereby you can run it on the fly, without disrupting current installs. It might also reveal if it recognizes the sound card.

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Thanks, good idea, I’ll try this

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You may try the workaround from the following thread with a similar device:
no-sound-output-from-internal-speakers