[yeah yeah, replying to self, but in case it does someone good in the future] On Mon, Oct 22, Michael Fischer wrote:
Yesterday, I stumbled upon:
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Installing_the_MCP_51/61_nVidia_nForce_onboard_so...
and thought, "Oh happy me, now I can get the onboard sound working".
I followed the directions, and got the onboard sound card working.
And then it all hit the fan.
The alsa install from the package advertised in the procedure section of the page referenced above not only installed something which 10.1 was appearently missing, but decided to take out much of the kernel sound modules under /lib/modules/2.6.16.13-4-smp/kernel/sound/pci/ other than the one it was installing. This has had a number of effects:
1. Can't run the audigy card I have in the box (not the biggest deal in the world as long as the onboard works well, but still...)
2. Realplayer and the shipped mozilla now choke with the message:
error while loading shared libraries: libasound.so.2: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
3. Flash doesn't have any sound.
4. Not sure if it is related, but now the firefox from mozilla.org likes to segfault at startup. I copied the firefox directory from another machine, and am able to launch it from the commandline. Sometimes...
Solved, with the combination of: install the latest kernel source from suse. build new kernel That got the soundcard recognized. use yast to reinstall alsa and alsa-32-bit by making them be "update". That got the apps able to start again. Michael -- Michael Fischer michael@visv.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org