My Tumbleweed system is getting broken over updates
Guys, I've had a decent experience with Tumbleweed for years, but the Kernel 7 update forward has broken my Creative Labs EMU20k2 [Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Series].
The card is detected, but I have no sound capabilities. I think the motherboard audio is even detected, but there is no X-Fi to output to my analog speakers. It's not available.
I've had problems with easy effects in the past, which wouldn't reset bad settings, so I deleted the software, and everything worked fine until Kernel 7. IDK if there's something easy effects screwed up, or it's the OS itself. Does anyone have a working X-Fi? Then the OS broke something on my end, and IDK how to fix it. There's years of forum posts about Linux breaking the X-Fi, and nothing seems to be relevant to what I'm experiencing. I've even heard KDE may be responsible.
Similar to easy effects, Goverlay has been a bit of a mess with stable updates, and wouldn't uninstall optiscaler properly from a game. I had to manually delete a bunch of files, and reset the program. That said, the tool says I have Optiscaler 0.7.9 installed (globally?), and I have no idea how to delete it, or where the files are located. Edit: I solved this one, there's some weird temp folder full of numbered directories like 2346321, and that's where the optiscaler files were.
It seems my system is becoming a mess of old files causing problems that I can't fix. What's the answer to this situation?