Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3729 mails)

[Jason <jglane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 20 June 2003 11:19 pm, H du Plooy wrote:
> The SuSE kernel includes Alsa in the source, so recompiling doesn't mess
> with the sound.  But if I compile a vanilla kernel, it does, because
> SuSE wants to load the alsa drivers for the soundcard.
>
> My soundcard is supported by the vanilla kernel drivers and works very
> well with that too.  Is there a way to persuade Yast2 to use the kernel
> driver instead?  When I click on options for the souncard (Ensoniq 1371
> (?) based Creative SoundBlaster PCI 128), it tells me there's no
> options.
>
> Thanks
> Hans

Hi, 

AFAIK Yast only works with Alsa. You could try downloading the Alsa driver 
source from http://www.alsa-project.org/  
Compiling and installing will create the sound modules. Then fire up Yast to 
configure the sound. I used to do this before I discovered the Mantel 
kernels, back in the early unstable days of 2.4 -- of course YMMV. 

I now prefer to use the SuSE kernels because they have the extra drivers for 
sound, my Alcatel speedtouch and the nice boot up animations. Saves quite a 
bit of time. I've tried the vanilla 2.4.21, and hope SuSE use the same 
scheduler for their version, as it seems to solve the performance problems 
with OpenOffice.org behaving like a dog when the system is loaded...

Regards,

Jason