[SLUG] Installing Linux for Lucy

[john at johnallsopp.co.uk]

> 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.

I ran out of time and haven't done much about it at all, I'm just
gathering possibilities atm so I'm armed for when I next go round,
which will be next Monday.

Cheers
J