linuxuser wrote:
The first computer, we tryed to install Linux on, is a Pentium IV 2.5 Ghz, with a large hard disk (120 GB) and a lot of RAM (512 Mb). On this computer the sound card (integrated on the main board) has not been recognized by Linux, and the sound doesn't work. The sound chipset name is: Sigmatel Stac 9750T. Also the printer (Hp deskjet 920C) doesn't work (maybe because of the USB ports...) and the modem (a PCI card): Aztech CNR 2800 W V92.
The modem won't work without drivers, perhaps not at all. check www.linmodems.org and as for the sound you should get the 8.0 updates for sound. check: http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/thallma_alsaup_80.html but first for both computers check uname -a and if the smp kernel is installed remove it using the following article's instructions: http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/thallma_restoring_snd80.html for the printer check www.linuxprinting.org
On the other computer, a Pentium IV 1.6 Ghz, with 40 GB HDD and 256 MB RAM, Suse Linux 8.0 managed to recognize all the hardware, during installation. Anyway there's a bigger problem: when I reboot the system (after installation) it can't boot. It stops on the line about sound (something like "loading previous sound...")
Cu, -Paul