Hello, and thanks in advance for any useful responses to this.
I’m brand spanking new, fresh and utterly knowledge free to anything Linux. I downloaded the LiveCD and installed 11.1 from there, and everything went swimmingly, and couldn’t have been easier. I loved that networking worked straight out of the box, and was able to use this site and google to bumble my way through anything I was having an issue with.
These issues were few. In fact, I’ve found it for the most part pretty easy to accomplish that which I’ve attempted to. Two niggling problems are all that I’ve had, one of which is resolved. They were getting the resolution to stay at what I set on the desktop after a restart, and the fact that I cannot hear any sound.
I’d already visited the nVidia site for the 6800xt driver and followed the instructions there for Suse, and really without me knowing what the hell I was doing ended up with it showing the correct video card, and all the good stuff like OpenGL does exactly what it’s supposed to. By reading someone elses trouble with resolutions (wasn’t the same as what I had, because every resolution I could wish for is listed) I saw that he’d tried setting it in an nvidia control panel with no luck, which of course worked a treat for me and now it keeps my resolution. YAY!
So it’s just the sound then. I see the volume control, have set it up in the mixer etc etc but getting YAST to play a test sound for me, I still hear absolutely nothing. When the computer first starts a little message pops up briefly on the desktop and says “nForce2 audio with ALC655 does not work. Reverting to default” or something along those lines.
I went through the entire soundcard troubleshooting page here, doing everything it said, and having those 2 things do their script stuff blah blah. I also went into the groups/details/permissions thing and checked the audio box, restarted and still nothing (except that same message).
Have removed the device in YAST, added it back, tried the 4 different drivers it provided for it, and still no sound, and still the same message when I restart.
Anything you tell me to do, is gonna need to be explained in painstaking steps, as this is all new to me, assume I know absolutely nothing and haven’t got a clue, so every key press I might need to bring up whatever I have to bring up is appreciated.
The urls generated by the 2 scripts from the audio troubleshooting page are:
http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=f5ee618fd595a0e51d032e5f22a3388442677c5e
http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=a0153f5dfefec7acb97f14752b32aefa0b95b4b4
Having replaced the guts of my wifes DELL machine with cast offs from my old one, XP wouldn’t have any of it, and we really didn’t want to spend 90 bucks for yet another copy of XP, especially given that she really only checks email and surfs the net, plays a few online games and spider solitaire etc.
That’s why I gave this a try, and so far, we’re both REALLY impressed. Getting the sound working will be the icing on the cake.
Thanks again.
