Klaus-F. Kaal wrote:
Thanks Lee, for this hint.
As this is not a multimedia-machine, I did not care too much.
Can you name a reasonable soundcard, which works well with Linux?
Thanks for your help
Klaus
BandiPat schrieb:
On Sunday 12 June 2005 07:57 am, Klaus-F. Kaal wrote:
Hi,
my soundcard was auto-configured and works fine. Unless I change the user in KDE. Then, I have to go to yast, delete the soundcard from the soundconfiguration list. Then I add a new soundcard which is recogized well and installed. After that, the sound works again.
The soundcard is aVT8233/A8235/8237 AC97 Audio Contoller Type.
Any hints, what to do?
Thanks
Klaus
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Klaus, Don't take this the wrong way, as I'm not trying to be rude, but get yourself a real sound card that plugs into a PCI slot and you'll have far fewer problems. The AC97 stuff seldom works reliably, if it works at all many times.
regards, Lee
There's cards like the Envy24 cards. M-audio uses this chipset and so does Turtle Beach (now owned by Voyetra). Their lower end cards are pretty cheap and will often work well with SuSE and others. Then there's the reliable (read lions share of the market) Creative SoundBlaster. You can now pick up an Audigy (ver 1) for about $40 U.S in an OEM package and they have them on sale all the time (blowing out over stock). And this also holds for the SoundBlaster Live series - OEM versions go for as low as $20 U.S. or less consistantly. These cards are nice insofar that they have a truer hardware focus then the software dsp based Envy series. The AC97 are VIA chipsets. They are supported in 9.X and I have had them up and running in 9.1 (the most problematice of the 9.x series). the kernel module is "snd-via82xx.ko" and if need be (esp for testing) you can manually load this, then dep it and see if it's working or what failure message you get - otherwise look to try yast/2 to set it up (can be a tad flakey at times - lol). Also do a google for "SuSE hardware compatibility list". This will lead you to the Novell-SuSE site - use the "express" search. I put asterixes in the fields, chose soundcards and got the whole list. HTH. Curtis.