Hi,

Jerry Houston wrote:
> Ladislav Slezak wrote:
>> OK, the card is recognized by the system and the problem seems to be
>> driver related...
>>
>> Is there something interesting in /var/log/messages or in 'dmesg' output?
>> Does 'modprobe snd-hda-intel' help?
>>   
> 
> Answering from work, so I can't check on messages right now.  I did try
> modprobe, and there was no output of any kind.  No information, no error
> messages, just a fresh command-line prompt.  I assume I didn't need to
> run that from any particular directory, do I?  I did run it from an
> admin console.

Yes, you don't need to run the command in any special directory.

> That's the impression I got from alsaconf.  Its first message was that
> it couldn't find a PCI card.  Is there another place where I should be
> looking for an updated version of ALSA, or would that come along in the
> normal course of applying available updates?  I've been doing that.

ALSA drivers are part of the Linux kernel, so if there is a kernel patch
available you should apply it. Or you can install the latest kernel in parallel
to the current one.

> As far as I know, this motherboard is reasonably competent, but it's not
> exactly bleeding-edge.  It surprises me that its sound card is so
> difficult to support.

Well, there might be a slight difference in design but if nobody knows it it's
hard to fix it...


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Best Regards

Ladislav Slezák
Yast Developer
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