if it works why not consider editing title to (solved) if you can

Although I solved my own similar problem - I was not the original poster of the thread.

Thank a lot, upgradred the Multimedia Pack 1,2,3 or 4 solved the problem for me (ac 97 sound card and suse 9.3). This can be done by, in the frech distribution, mise à jour en ligne ,so maybe online upgrade...

the origignal problem was the same as described in the first post.

Thank you very much! This fix has also enabled alsa and xmms to work for me.

Before this I could only play sounds via the cambuca version of xine and xine.ui. I think this is brilliant because it is the only one which plays .au sounds, quicktime and real videos as well as all the .avis, .wmvs, etc.

I'm a bit cheesed with Suse 10.0; undoubtedly it has improved some things, but the sound and multimedia support, at least for my AMD 64, seems to get worse (or at the very best, more difficult to tweak) with each new distro (I've used at least 5 since 7.2). Java, Mozilla and Timidity didn't work properly until I uninstalled the 64 bit version and installed older 32 bit versions. In the case of timidity, I did it from the 9.2 dvd; for mozilla I used the downloaded installer. I tried several versions of mozplugger, but the latest I could get to work (partially) is version 1.51. This works equally well in the 64 bit firefox also.

I now regret getting an AMD 64, as I strongly suspect this is at the root of many of my difficulties. Apart from the kernel maybe, I wish I could try having only 32bit software installed. I've plenty of hard drive space - does anyone know whether it's possible?

Anyway, it's only a week after "upgrading"; perhaps I'm too impatient?