On Monday 07 August 2006 17:47, M Harris wrote:
On Friday 04 August 2006 21:26, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
Only if it was supported by ALSA. What does alsaconf give you (as root)?
hi Joe, Actually, alsaconf is where I started... identified the card, supposedly configured it, but would not play the sample.
To make a longer story shorter, I pulled the driver sources from RealTek:
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloads1-3.aspx?keyword=ALC880
The file is: realtek-linux-audiopack-4.04c.tar.bz2
The driver compiled without errors and installed ok. I had to manually update the modprobe.conf.local file. The drivers would not start on bootup until I manually added the snd-card-0 alias to the kernel modules list with the sysconfig editor. Now I have sound. But, I also have questions.
How do we get this driver into the SuSE distro?
Please read the archives - - - and how Novell is no longer supporting "non-kernel-integrated" modules.
========================================= Novell's Official Position
Most developers of the kernel community consider non-GPL kernel modules ot be infringing on their copyright. Novell does respect this position, and will no longer distribute non-GPL kernel modules as part of future products.
February 9, 2006 =========================================