Today, I finally got SuSE 9.1 and installed it..., it looks awesome...
I am really going to enjoy using this..., it is a little uncomfortable when I expect to right click and find properties, amoung other things...., but I'll get used to it...
A few problems I am running into...
My sound is only being played on the 2 regular speakers instead of my 5.1 surrond sound...., I have a Creative SBlive!.., I am not sure of the exact make at the moment...
My graphics card.., ATI RAEDON 9600 SP 128MB, will not do anything 3d on SuSE.., says that openGL isn't supported on it...,
not really anything big since I dont plan on doing anything in that area on SuSE anyway...
The Biggie...- My Winmodem..., I have a really off-brand modem.., it's an Encore V.92 FAX MODEM
but it does have a Intel 536EP chipset.., and I looked on Intel's site and I found a driver for SuSE 9.0 (I assume that it should work with 9.1)
I downloaded it using windows and put it on my FAT32 Partition.., and now I have it in SuSE...
The problem is that I can't find out how to install it...
From Readme-
3. INSTALLATION
Prerequisites:
1. root access
2. bash shell to run install scripts
3. an Intel536ep modem
4. KERNEL SOURCE HEADERS FOR THE KERNEL YOU ARE RUNNING.
and programming development tools installed as well
6 steps to install
1. login as ROOT
2. extract the archive into a directory with "tar -zxvf <archivename>.tgz"
3. cd into the directory it created.
4. Type: make clean
5. Type: make 536
6. Type: make install
Please examine the Intel536_inst script if you have a different distribution.
The Intel536 driver registers itself as character device
major number 240, minor number 1.
ATTENTION: if the driver compiles but the script just wont work for you.
Here are the bare minimum steps to get your modem to work.
0. log in as root.
1. insmod -f Intel536.o
2. you can start "hamregistry" at this point if you wish.
3. rm /dev/536ep
4. mknod /dev/536ep c 240 1 (note "240" is the default, if it does not
work see what /proc/devices says 536ep's major number is)
5. ln -s /dev/536ep /dev/modem
6. start a comm application like minicom and use the modem.
7. see section 3 (International Users) for info on setting the correct
country settings.
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I clicked on the button that says consle on the taskbar, and followed the step..., I got to "make clean" and it gives me an error, basically saying there is no make command....
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