[pulseaudio-discuss] no sound in steam and all valve games after install openSUSE 13.1

[Damir Jelić]

On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 09:04:27PM +0100, guus wrote:
> Hi guys
> 
> This week I installed openSUSE 13.1 64 bit.
> Before I used openSUSE 12.3
> 
> Since openSUSE 13.1 all sound has stopped working, in all games from Valve
> Serious Sam 3 also played through steam, still has sound.
> 
> I am looking for help, and have already posted on the steam for linux github
> ( valve)
> And of course the openSUSE forums, without any success.
> 
> Disabling pusle audio gave me sound in steam in all Valve games.
> ( and in the 32 bit flash version steam uses)
> 
> Outside steam pulse audio seems to work fine.
> 
>  pulseaudio --version
> pulseaudio 4.0-270-g9490a-rebootstrapped
> 

Most games are 32-bit, you need to install some 32-bit packages. I
think in openSUSE it's called alsa-plugins-pulse-32bit [1].

[1] http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Pulseaudio