Hi, When i opening the "Yast" in gui and go to sound card no sound card was detected and when i go to add sound card i see that my sound card isn't in the list, so that you told me i see this site "http://www.alsa-project.org/" but i don't find my sound card driver. Would you please tell me where is my sound card driver and how can i install & configure that? Thanks, Curtis Rey wrote: sibil sibily wrote:

Hi Team, I have suse 8.0 on my PC with GA-8IPE1000-G mainboard with on board sound card that the name is "Realtek AC'97 audio". I receive the driver for this card from "realtek.com" site that the name is "linux_r32.zip" but i don't know how can i install and configure it that i can use of sound card. Would you please help me that install & configure that.

Thanks for your help

I strongly suspect that the driver is a redhat driver (though one should get it to work with a little tinkering) - e.g. the "r32" makes me think it stands for IA32=32bit and the r is for redhat - just a guess. However the stock SuSE Linux kernel should have a driver to the realtek/AC97 card already. The ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) team provided this driver for the kernel for some time now. Places to look that might help is the ALSA-Wiki site at http://alsa.opensource.org and the alsa page itstelf at http://sourceforge.net/projects/alsa or the other homepage at http://www.alsa-project.org/ If you use yast/yast2 to install/setup the drivers what does it say? As stated earlier there shouldn't be a problem since AC97 is a standard and is included in the kernal and alsa ( now folded into the kerner for some time now). Try using yast (either in the gui or the console) and if your getting error message post those. Also - don't feel bad or offended - but a surprising number of people have problems with sound cards not working only to find out the by default SuSE (or others - many others) turn the master volume to "0" by default. Over the years many have posted "my sound card won't work" or similar only to find out that it was set to "0" and they simply had to turn the volume up (don't be offended - but you'ld be surprised how many "gurus" get caught on this one - lol). The best thing to do when posting for help is to include as much info as possible (log / error files, warning messages, etc). You really should have to compile and install drivers for and AC97 card - unless it been tweaked by the manufacturer and the default drivers don't give you access to those specific features. Try to reinstall the driver/sound card using YaST and post of you have further problems. HTH. Curtis. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-multimedia-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-multimedia-e-help@suse.com --------------------------------- Discover Yahoo! Stay in touch with email, IM, photo sharing & more. Check it out!