Re: Sound Card Configuration

From: Michel Catudal (mcatudal_at___comcast.net)
Date: 07/18/05 

Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 20:16:09 -0500

D wrote:

> No sound at all. Any ideas on where to find a driver?

Just run yast and in the setup make sure that you turn the sound
volume to something else than 0%. You can also run the mixer
and turn the volume there but it is less of a pain if you
tell the driver to turn the sound on on power up. The default
of that fucking driver is to turn the sound off. This is
stupid and ridiculous considering that if you install the
sound it must mean that you want to hear something out of
the sound card. Whoever decided that the sound should be
turned off by default should be shot!

If you can't get the sound to turn on you can always
use the commercial OSS driver which is free for personal
use. This will work for sure on a 32 bits system.
I have paid for the license and was very happy with it
when I had a 32 bits system.

I really don't like the alsa driver but that is the only
thing that works on a 64 bits system so far. I miss my
OSS Sound driver which worked beautifully on my 32 bits
machine. 

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