Ok, like many people, I have the problem of the sound working the first time I run zsnes and then it doesn't work. There are a few exceptions to this though. It only stops working if it gets as far as crashing (which it does after 10-15 minutes of gameplay)
If I quit and start up before it crashes, the sound still works.
If I let it go as far as crashing and the sound doesn't work, I figured out that I can make it think it's a new installation by deleting the zguicfgl.dat file. This clears up the sound problem until the next crash.
In this case, I don't think the problem is the sound. Just that it keeps crashing.
by the way, I'm using SuSE 9.1 in KDE 3.2. If ya'll want more info about my system, just ask.
Sound/crashing in Linux
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