glytch

(Mods, I wasn't sure if this should have it's own topic or if it should go in the general Linux topic at top...feel free to move it if it needs to be there.)

I'm looking for some SuSE experts here, as I am a complete newbie to the distro. I downloaded 9.1 personal from SuSE's ftp, because I wanted to try something different than Redhat for my servers (ftp, ssh, mail, and web), but also as something that my other half can use for general desktop applications. Let me say this before I get into my questions: I love the SuSE environment and she has no problem whatsoever doing the things she needs to do.

Now, on to the real problems. As I said, I downloaded the personal edition without really reading much about it (I've been on a distro-hunt for the last few days), and quickly realized that it contains no server applications, nor does it have any compilers. I wanted to make the best of the situation by using YaST to get all the stuff I need, as I'd rather not be in dependancy hell for the rest of my life. Thus, we have another problem. YaST complains every time I try to set an ftp source for installation, saying there is no install source at the site I entered. I'm sure I'm doing something wrong, as I've tried quite a few sites now.

So basically, I'll need to do one of three things, which I would greatly appreciate any help with.
1.) Find another distro. (My least favorite choice, because I think I would like SuSE quite a bit if I could get this stuff working).
2.) Get SuSE 9.1 Professional, which comes with most of the stuff I wanted (I'm so-so about this, because many people say you can obtain all of the packages through YaST).
3.) Learn how to use YaST. (This is my preferred method, although I'm having a terrible time trying to find ftp installation servers that I can get to work. Anyone know of a definitive list for these?)

Again, thanks for reading my long-winded post and in advance for any help that is given.

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Holo

Bite the bw and get the Pro version. There is some disagreement on the legality of dling the ISOs so I will not point you in any direction. Plus you really only need the first 3 CDs to get a good install out of it.

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glytch

Thanks for the response Holo. I seemed to have found some sort of a workaround by not even using YaST. I fought dependancies for a little while a couple of days ago and downloaded apt-get. Now, everything works peachy (apt-get is the default package manager for debian-like distros, I believe). Seems to have cleared my problem right up.

Thanks anyway for the help.

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glytch

One more thing (while I've already got a SuSE thread on the first page...) I have speakers that, under Windows, will only work when I have the "digital output only" box checked. Is there any way I can get these speakers to work on SuSE? My sound is working fine, as I can plug in headphones and get sound, just not from my speakers.

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cthulu23

To use Yast to install packages, you need to choose "Change source of installation" and enter in the url and path to a mirror. For example, I use LSU's mirror which is hosted at http://suse.lsu.edu/dist/i386/9.1, so I choose http for the protocol, then enter in suse.lsu.edu for the address and dist/i386/9.1 for the path. For whichever mirror that you choose, make sure to enter in the path for the top level of the 9.1 directory.

glytch

Thanks! I actually finally got this working....turns out I was just pointing to the wrong directory, not the top level. Thanks again.

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cthulu23

About your speakers, what port on your sound card are you using? Cards such as a Soundblaster Live will have both digital and analog out. Run alsamixer and check that the digital out is not muted or switch the speaker to using the analog out.

glytch

I'm actually using a POS old computer that I picked up (mainly using it for a webserver) that only has onboard audio. Think that could be the problem? I mean, if there's no digital output capability, is there any way to fool it into thinking there is?

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cthulu23

I don't know of any PC speakers that are digital only, but I could be wrong. What type of PC is it? What does the output of lspci -v say about the sound card?

glytch

0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801AA AC'97 Audio (rev 02)
Subsystem: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 5643
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 9
I/O ports at 1200
I/O ports at 1300 [size=64]

There's the pertinant info from lspci -v about my audio.

Edit: Just ran aslamixer, and I didn't see anything about digital out.

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