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Hi,
I recently replaced Windows 2000 with SUSE 10.1 on my HP 4150 Omnibook. I have no sound on this laptop. I remember now that even when I had Win2K on it, I had to fuss with getting the right sound drivers installed. I still have those drivers if they could be used again now with SUSE. So my two questions are: 1) can I use the drivers? 2) If so, can I just plop them into a specific directory? Which one(s)?
First, you can't use Windows sound drivers in Linux. Second, could you post more information on your hardware? Specifically output from the following commands:
lspci
cat /proc/asound/version
head /proc/asound/card0/codec*
This will help in identifying the exact sound chip in your system. From there, I can point you towards the right Linux driver.
Also, if you are comfortable downloading and building drivers yourself, go to alsa-project.org and download the latest version of alsa-driver, alsa-lib, and alsa-utils. Build and install them in that order. Suse has an older alsa version, and there have been a lot of changes since Suse 10.1 was released.
First, you can't use Windows sound drivers in Linux. Second, could you post more information on your hardware? Specifically output from the following commands:
lspci
cat /proc/asound/version
head /proc/asound/card0/codec*
This will help in identifying the exact sound chip in your system. From there, I can point you towards the right Linux driver.
Also, if you are comfortable downloading and building drivers yourself, go to alsa-project.org and download the latest version of alsa-driver, alsa-lib, and alsa-utils. Build and install them in that order. Suse has an older alsa version, and there have been a lot of changes since Suse 10.1 was released.
Thanks. Here's the output from the commands you told me to execute:
Output from lspci command:
Ok, from the output of the second and third commands, I can tell audio isn't even loaded. Try loading the alsa drivers. As root, type "alsaconf". That should configure your audio, if there is support for that soundcard. Unfortunately, my main focus is currently on Intel HD Audio based systems, which are much newer.
If alsaconf fails to detect your card, or you still can't get output from "cat /proc/asound/version", type "lspci -s 1:00.1 -vn" and post the output. This will help me to research that chip for support.
i have desktop with intel mainboard 915GAV with builtin sound card of realtech ALC860, i installed redhat linux 9 enterprise edition but there are no sound card detection in that
can u help me what to do to detect the sound card,... does suse 10 have support to this audio card??
Ok, first, you should really open a new thread if your question isn't hardware and/or distro related to the current thread. Yes, Suse 10 will detect your sound card, as will downloading, building, and installing the latest alsa drivers from alsa-project.org if you really feel attached to that old distro (you'll need the alsa-driver, alsa-lib, and alsa-utils tarballs).
Expecting a distro that is older than a motherboard to fully support that motherboard is a bit unreasonable for any OS. Linux tends to not dwell in the past too long. Try a newer distro, like Suse 10.1 or Mandriva 2007 (my favorate). You'll like the improvements anyways.
If you are new to Linux, I recommend sticking with a proven distro that is desktop and new-user friendly (like the ones I mentioned).
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