[SLUG] Installing Linux for Lucy

[john at johnallsopp.co.uk]

> 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
>
> Jamie

OK, neither of those seem easy at all. I'm tempted to say "buy a basic
soundcard and have done with it". Would that work?  Is the getout
actually "SUSE Linux doesn't support the sound on this motherboard"?

J

J