On Thursday 01 November 2001 09:08, Briggs, N. - Neil - wrote:
Dear Raul
I have read your email, as you consider configuring Alsa with SUSE easy, could you please help me set up my Suse 7.1 professional edition to work with a sound blaster live card. Because for the life of me I have been unable to get this to work. I have mailed the list a couple of times with my problems and have recieved no help with my problems.
I installed SuSE 7.2 on my new athlon 5 months ago and tried in vain to get alsa to work with my SB Live! card. So, I resorted to my old friend, OSS, from 4Front Technologies. It costs $20 but it works beautifully. JLK
If you could send me the steps that are required to be taken to get Suse to recognise and use my sound card and configure Alsa, I will follow your suggested steps and email you with any problems I encounter with any of the steps.
6 months without sound and getting quickly fed up with Linux. It's multi media capabilites are poor.
Many thanks in advance Neil
-----Original Message----- From: Raul Gutierrez Segales [mailto:oxford@campoalto.edu.py] Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 4:02 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] (OT) Sound in other distros
One of the greatest things about SuSE & YaST with the use of Alsa is the easyness of configuring sound under Linux (although sometimes this can be a little confusing ... :-))
The thing is, what if you have to configure a PCI soundcard (on-board in the case that I have to face now) in Slackware for example, that is a distro that doesnt have any friendly tool and you have to do it the old-fashion way... Would you go for alsa or you would use the kernel support for sound (if the kernel supports PCI-sound, since I am not sure cause the Sound-HOWTO only made alussion to ISA cards).
This is applicable to SuSE as well, cause I believe it is much better to learn things, especially in exciting *nix world, to things the hard way.
Thanks alot,
Raúl
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