This limits testing to an old 32 bit laptop.

I now need it with a working version of openoffice but the pps issue is not an immediate problem on that machine. I have a laptop running 11.2 x86-64 that I have recently been using for testing. If I can get the version to work then the novell version goes and does not come back. I have reported the problem on bugzilla but I expect a long wait before anybody even looks at the report. The reference to the sound file missing in the novell version. If you look at the slide transition data imported into the novell and openoffice versions of impress they are different. I have spent very long time trying to get presentations to work as they used to work, and still works in Windows with openoffice 3.2.1. This question is 'does FMJ work with openoffice from 64 bit for sound'. This is a new thread because it is a different question.

User friendly viewing Power Point presentations in Linux ?.

opensuse 11.3 X86_64 openoffice impress 3.2.1.4 - pps no sound.

A couple of sample threads (at least one of which you already know about) : its only a minority (that I would also like see work) that do not work. While there are a number of threads on this subject (with no solutions yet), my experience is the majority of the power point presentations with sound do play sound in open office impress.

Openoffice impress to open pps file