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

[Scott Reeves]

Just a heads up - I reported this on the SUSE bugzilla and a fix was submitted. Release is pending testing ...

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=857377

>>> On 11/29/2013 at 08:00 PM, guus <guus.poort at upcmail.nl> wrote: 
> I think I found an solution.|
> 
> https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/1179#issuecomment-13
> 066470
> 
> that guy wrote:
> I have run into sound problems on OpenSuse 13.1 (not yet released). In 
> my case the '/etc/machine-id' and the '/var/lib/dbus/machine-id' files 
> both existed but contained different values.
> 
> I removed the dbus one and made a symlink to the other by running:
> 'sudo ln -s /etc/machine-id /var/lib/dbus/machine-id'
> 
> 
> op 28-11-13 23:47, Damir Jelić schreef:
>> 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
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