[SLUG] Suse sound (again, but new scenario)

[Martin Webb]

john at johnallsopp.co.uk wrote:
> Hi ppl
> 
> So here's where I'm at with Lucy's machine. I've tried several
> distributions and none worked perfectly (interestingly, I haven't
> tried Fedora yet). SUSE seems my best shot, so I'm back to that.
> 
> I've re-installed. I'm not sure how it happened but I got a much more
> detailed installation and I'm now using KDE. It appears I have Gnome
> on there too, but I can't see how I choose it. Anyway, KDE might give
> me more options.
> 
> So, I'm going to attempt, once again, to use the on-board audio. The
> motherboard, you'll remember, is an ASROCK 939NF4, there's an AMD
> Athlon 64 3500+ in there, and the sound is supposed to be onboard
> Realtek ALC850, 7.1 channel, AC'97 audio codec.

Ah, didn't realise this was Realtek, with AC'97 audio codec.  AC'97 is 
usually VIA, so when I said that usually worked OOB, it was VIA I was 
referring to.
Martin