Many thanks to those who worked though the problems I had getting things like sound working and clearing up other major and minor problems with the move to 11.4 and KDE4.6. I suspect time will show other problems as I start sing the less common applications. But or now, things sort-of work with a few workarounds. What's left has to do with session control. When I restart a session the setting and applications from the previous session are not restored: * I have to restart klipper manually * I have to turn off nepomuk and reset it to 'off' in system settings * I have to re-run "alasmxer -c 0" since everything is muted and levels are set to zero As for the last point, following Tejas's advice, I verified that "/lib/udev/rules.d/90-alsa-restore.rules" exists; and in "/etc/pulse/default.pa" there is a bit with description "Automatically restore the volume of streams and devices" uncommented But that hasn't fixed things. PulseAudio _does_ work, but it still has an unfinished feeling and proved awkward to set up. The advantage on a single machine is far from clear. Skype is a critical application for me, and while Skype seems to have integrated PulseAudio there isn't a lot of flexibility and the sound quality is poor compared to what I had with ALSA. It does work, *now*, but what I did to get it to work is unclear. I started this thread with
1. KDM does not work. The greeter fails. The log file reads
That problem went away for no reason I could figure and has come back for no reason I can figure. Perhaps some odd interaction in the various updates. See earlier in the thread :-( -- The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. --Bertrand Russell -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org