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