[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_sound_card > > 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
