Hi! The detection of your soundcard is not a matter of YaST, I think its alsa related. Just try the command alsaconf as root, thats exactly the same command whitch is executed by YaST. Also you could try the command hwinfo --sound to let the system look, if your soundcard is detected automaticly... Please send me the output, maybe I can help you. What SuSE-version are you using? What kernel is installed on your system? Normaly all alsamodules are included in the distri, also the oss-modules. Have you ever used the soundcard with linux before and are you shure, that this card is supported? Regards, Schoeppi On Mit, Jun 25, 2003 at 10:47:00 +0200, Kristoffer Gustafsson wrote: > > hello! > the module i want is the braille voyager driver module. > I also want to recompile my kernel to get the sound support. > i have tried now both loading the intel module but it doesn't want to load > and yast says that i have gotting an error during instalation. > how shall i get alsa to detect my card. > i tried the alsaconf script with no sucsess. > why do you think that yast refuses to enable my card? > can it be that the kernel doesn't have sound support? > if so where can i get a kernel with sound support for suse linux? > hope you can help me. > it is not fun with a soundless linux. > > thanks in advance > > kristoffer > > -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- > Från: blinux-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:blinux-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx]För L. C. Robinson > Skickat: den 24 juni 2003 23:51 > Till: blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Ämne: Re: kernel compilation > > > On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Kristoffer Gustafsson wrote: > > > I have consided to recompile my kernel and > > update it from 2.4. something to 2.5.54. > > [stuff about difficulties deleted] > > > i have read the linux kernel howto but i find > > this hard to understand. > > Well, here's a very important bit you perhaps > missed from the HOWTO: > > There are two versions of the linux kernel > source, ``production'' and ``development.'' > Production releases are the even-minor-numbered > releases; 1.2.x was production, 2.0.x is > production, as well as 2.2.x. These kernels are > considered to be the most stable, bug-free > versions available at the time of release. The > development kernels (2.1.x, 2.3.x, etc) are > meant as testing kernels, for people willing to > test out new and possibly very buggy kernels. > You have been warned. > > This means you are trying to build an unstable, > changing, possibly buggy, non-production kernel, > with new experimental features, that are not fully > debugged. > > Really, except for very special circumstances or > hardware, re-compiling kernels is largely > obsolete, and generally a waste of time, and > certainly not a project for someone new to this > kind of stuff. Virtually all the extras you might > want are included with the huge package of > modules, and performance tuning can now be done > without recompiling, on a running kernel, using > decent front ends like /sbin/sysctl. > > You can almost always get special kernels already > built for special needs (such as speakup). And > RedHat has already patched in many extras for you, > as do other distributors. > > If you really want to experiment, I suggest that, > at the appropriate time, you go to, say, the Red > Hat rawhide directories, and get a pre-2.6 kernel > (in a few months), and be prepared to accept the > risk involved. > > If there is still something special you really > need, let us know, and we may be able to help you > build the modules for it without even having the > whole kernel source installed, such as the alsa > drivers. Red Hat makes such things fairly > convenient, and even provides a set of kernel > config files for the kernels they ship: you just > move the right one into place when needed. > > LCR > > -- > L. C. Robinson > reply to no_spam+munged_lcr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > People buy MicroShaft for compatibility, but get incompatibility and > instability instead. This is award winning "innovation". Find > out how MS holds your data hostage with "The *Lens*"; see > "CyberSnare" at http://www.netaction.org/msoft/cybersnare.html > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > -- Christian Schoepplein | Beste Rockband der Welt: http://www.lily-rockt.de mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx | Linux fuer Blinde: http://www.blinux.suse.de _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list