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Yesterday I uninstalled the new compiled ALSA driver but I did not succeeded. So I uninstalled them. Suddenly my OpenOffice stopped working. I thought that this was maybe in conjunction with the installation of the Gnome Desktop. This morning I started my openSuse again and suddenly my Firefox isn’t working.

/usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries:
lib asound.so.2:cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Looks like Firefox is using the shared asound library. That’s what I removed yesterday. My decision was now to update the ALSA stuff again with Yast to the latest version from the openSuse repository (download.opensuse.org). The ALSA revision in the repository is

1.0.15.hg20071218-1.1

I updated all ALSA components to the latest revision. After that the sound was still not working and there was an error during configuration with Yast. So I switched to the command-line and invoked

alsaconfig

After that I jumped back to Yast. It was time to pump up the volume and it was working! This was music to my ears.

Sorry for this quite fuzzy description. But hopefully it might help some of you to get the sound running on your Acer Aspire 4720 notebook.

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