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September 17th, 2004 12:00
Linux newbie - install alsa1.06 drivers in SuSE9.1
I am new to linux, but needed to set up a dual boot for a graduate project in GIS. The SUSE install went alright except for two issues:
1) did not create a swap partition
2) SB Live! CT0020 sound card doesn't work with alsa1.03 that ships with SuSE 9.1
Can anyone tell me how to set up a swap partition after the install or do I need to reinstall. If the latter, will that effect the GRUB boot manager? Any suggestions? DO I need to worry about this?
I have found the alsa 1.06 drivers et cetera, but cannot figure out how to install them. The alsa web site device list has not been updated for the the new version, and it still lists these cards as unsupported. I did find an alsa1.06 RPM but it only includes the tools and not the updated drivers as far as I can tell and still wants to attach the sound card which uses the EMU10K1x to the EMU10K1 driver
Agent Orange
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September 19th, 2004 13:00
The amount of swap varies depending on who you ask. The old rule of thumb was "twice as much swap as physical RAM", but if you have >=512MB RAM, you probably only need as much swap as ram. Note that depending on application, if you have >512MB ram, you might not need swap.
then you need to use mkswap on the partition, and add an entry to /etc/fstab to mount the partition at boot. It shouldn't affect grub, but note that these aren't suse specific instructions - maybe there's some fancy gui tool somewhere, but it should work fine on any linux system.
for the sound card, I think someone cracked this problem recently - maybe do a search on these boards for answers...
cheers
allesennogwat
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September 20th, 2004 23:00
allesennogwat
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September 20th, 2004 23:00
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