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I did it exactly the way Caeda described and it's working for me:
Install Suse 9.0 just the way you want, download the old kernel 2.4.20 with source out of Suse 8.2 (kernel 2.4.23 is supposed to have solved the sound problem too, but Suse will probably distribute that one with version 9.1) install both packages, reboot the system and the sound should be working. Now download the NVidia driver into the /root directory. type 'init 3' to shut down the x-server. login as root and run the nvidia driver.
Reboot the system and go into sax and turn on the 3d support.
This should do the whole task.
Something else:
After a lot of days trying and sweating I finally found out how to get the modem working on a Toshiba Laptop with Suse 9.0:
After the normal installation of Suse 9.0, the downgrade of the kernel to 2.4.20, the system recognizes the modem and seems to have installed it, you canconfigure it woth Yast 2, but just won't dial in. It gives error code 2, whatever you try.
What's missing is 2 packages which aren't installed by default: km_smartlink-softmodem and smartlink-softmodem.
After installation, read the file:
/usr/share/doc/packages/smartlink-softmodem/README and follow the instructions. It worked for me.
I'm running an Asus P4C800 Deluxe motherboard which has an onboard ADI AD1985 6 channel audio codec. I've been running fine with a HT P4 processor on the stock SuSE 9.0 SMP kernel except that I don't have any sound. I believe the SMP kernels have some issues with ACPI (freezing, etc) so I expect to downgrade to the SuSE 8.x kernel and turn on ACPI in order to get sound working. Three questions:
1) Has anyone tried using a 2.6 kernel to see if that fixes the sound / ACPI problem?
2) Has anyone got sound working with an SMP kernel under SuSE? If so, what kernel version and ACPI BIOS settings did you use?
3) Could someone post a working /etc/modules.conf so I have a clue as to what settings actually work for sound? (Please post the whole file [or send it to me as a private message] as there are several sections which pertain to sound and they're not all in one place in the file)
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