I really hate starting yet another sound thread, but I’m at my wits end here.
There was some patch that got installed today that seems to have nuked my sound. I think it must have been a kernel update since vmware wanted its modules recompiled.
Speaker-test gives me nothing.
uname -a
Linux foo-bar 2.6.27.19-3.2-pae #1 SMP 2009-02-25 15:40:44 +0100 i686 i686i386 GNU/Linux
If it was a kernel update, then no dramas. As a volunteer I’ve been maintaing a wiki to help users update there alsa, in part to help users whose sound has been broken by a nominal (SuSE-GmbH provided) kernel update: Alsa-update - openSUSE
In your case, assuming this is a problem due to the kernel update, simply open a terminal or a konsole, type “su” (no quotes - enter root password when prompted) and then with your PC connected to the internet, copy and paste the following 6 zypper commands, executing them one at a time in sequence.
zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/multimedia:/audio/openSUSE_11.1/ multimedia
Note that kmix in KDE4 often does not show all the controllable mixer items. You can go to one of the kmix menu and add extra channels for mixer control.
If after all this your sound still does not work, write a bug report on openSUSE-11.1 new kernel breaking your sound: Submitting Bug Reports - openSUSE
It could be a bug. One of the alsa developers wrote down in the HD-Audio.txt documentation file, that comes with 1.0.19 of alsa, that it is easier for the developers to get the headphones working, than it is for them to get the speakers working.
