adoll's Journal: OpenSuSE 12.1 install - sound problem

I wiped my computer and installed OpenSuSE 12.1 from scratch, reformating the root directory (but not the home directory). Bad news - the sound didn't work.

What happened: I had a headset plugged into the front set of audio jacks and the speakers plugged into the rear set of audio jacks. When OpenSuSE installed the sound engine, it assumed the front jacks with the headphones were the master and it disabled the rear jacks. I unplugged the headset, then deleted the sound card configuration, re-detected the sound board hardware and did the automatic setup. And there was sound!

Very difficult thing to diagnose as I wouldn't expect the system to be smart enough to distinguish the front speaker jack from the rear one. Anyway, when doing a SuSE install, unplug your headset if the speakers are plugged into a different slot