$SUBJECT appears identical on same machine booted to Jessie/14.0.3, including correct (external) speakers used in IceWM session. :-( Felix Miata composed on 2016-07-16 21:21 (UTC-0400): > On other PCs with openSUSE (42.1, 13.2 & 13.1) and TDE 14.0.x that have no > speaker built into the motherboard, I've not experienced $SUBJECT, sound > simply works as expected. On this PC, a SFF Dell Optiplex 780, aplay and > speaker-test work as expected whether run in multi-user.target or > graphical.target, as does Youtube sound running an IceWM session, producing > sound from accessory speakers plugged into the green jack, only if a TDE > session is not running or has not been running since the last instance of > 'alsactl restore'. Speakers always work as expected in openSUSE Tumbleweed > running Plasma5 or openSUSE 13.2 or 13.1 running KDE4 (none of which have > their respective pulseaudio packages installed). > IOW, TDE redirects sound to the internal speaker that should be going to > external speakers, only on this one PC. Might there be a fix for this that > does not involve polluting the installation with the otherwise unnecessary > Pulseaudio rpm and its deps? > output of alsa-info.sh: > http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/SUSE/421/alsa-info-gx780-s421.txt > Various installed rpms: > alsa-1.0.29-10.1.x86_64 > alsa-firmware-1.0.29-3.2.noarch > alsa-plugins-1.0.29-10.1.x86_64 > alsa-utils-1.0.29-9.1.x86_64 > arts-1.5.10-66.2.x86_64 > libasound2-1.0.29-10.1.x86_64 > libpulse-mainloop-glib0-7.0-5.1.x86_64 > libpulse0-7.0-5.1.x86_64 > trinity-arts-1.5.10-14.0.3_1.oss421.x86_64 > trinity-kmix-14.0.3-1.oss421.x86_64 > trinity-libarts-akode-14.0.3-1.oss421.x86_64 > trinity-libarts-audiofile-14.0.3-1.oss421.x86_64 > trinity-libarts-mpeglib-14.0.3-1.oss421.x86_64 > trinity-libarts-xine-14.0.3-1.oss421.x86_64 > (as yet ignored) opensuse mailing list thread (from before I found alsactl > restore helped outside of a TDE session): > https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2016-07/msg00283.html -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/