[SLUG] Installing Linux for Lucy

[Paul Teasdale]

On Tuesday 21 Mar 2006 10:07, Jamie Adams wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 03:23 -0500, john at johnallsopp.co.uk wrote:
> <SNIP>
>
> > So I fell back on Suse, which seems impressive, except I haven't got
> > sound to work. That should be provided by the ASRock 939NF4
> > motherboard. I'll need to spend a little more time on that, but any
> > suggestions welcome. She wants to use the machine to watch DVDs so
> > it's kind-of important.
>
> This motherboard uses an Nforce chipset so there are a couple of options
> open to you. You could try the Nvidia drivers for linux which have a
> module for onboard sound [1], or you could use ALSA which has partial
> support for this chipset under the intel8x0 module. There are some
> instructions for getting ALSA working with this card here:
> http://jrblevin.freeshell.org/weblog
>
> [1] http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html
>
Have you actually (via YAST) checked that the sound card has not been 
detected? It may be a case that the sound has been detected fine and the 
sound is just muted. This was the case with my USB headphones and I seem to 
remember Al saying the same also.

Regards,

Paul.
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