I would like to understand how openSuse manage hardware

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hi all,

am new to the linux world. I recently bought an asus laptop U3 series and openSuse 11.0 seems to work fine on it, but i have some difficulties with:

bluetooth mouse is detected but does not work (the pointer does not move). Installed libs are bluez-utils, bluez-libs, btusb-kmp, kdebluetooth

the microphone does not work (tested with skype so far)

so i would like to understand the hardware management of suse?
is it like windows does it install some drivers he thinks appropriate for the device?
how can i make sure all devices are installed? or how cant i see if a device is installed?

thanks for any answers

cheers Didier

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Is this an integated microphone? Or an external microphone plugged into the mic jack?

Internal integrated mics are notoriously difficult to get functional under Linux.

I don’t use skype, so I can’t help you with that applications. But you could test your mic in another app to ensure this is just not a skype configuration problem.

When I test my mic, I typically use a simple arecord command. ie something like arecord -d 10 myrecording.wavor arecord -d 10 -f cd secondrecording.wavwhere “-d 10” sets a 10 second recording.

You need to pay very close and careful attention to your mixer settings.

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both command works but there was no sound. I tried with internal an external microphone

is there a solution?

For my bluetooth mouse what should i do? should i disable the touchpad or something

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pfff am really confuse both the external an internal microphone work. My mixer settings where not correctly set.

oldcpu thanks for your hints. The transition is a bit difficult :stuck_out_tongue: but i don’t regret the change.

If anybody have any idea for my bluetooth mouse i must be missing something

thanks