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[Linoman]

Hi there everyone, new to Opensuse 10.3 (x64 edition) and all I can say is wow. I have used quite a number of linux distros but this one really looks the most polished out of all that I have tried. Unfortunately there are a couple of questions/things I need sorted before I can use this os as my main.

First below is a summary of my system specs:

Processor: AMD® BOXED ATHLON™64 X2 3800+ PROCESSOR - 2.0GHZ DUAL CORE SOCKET AM2 2X512K 2000MHZ HT 90NM AMD64
Motherboard: GIGABYTE® "S SERIES" NVIDIA NFORCE 430 CHIPSET - FOR AMD K8 PROCESSORS @ 1000MHZ HT - INTEGRATED MAINBOARD - SOCKET AM2 ONLY
4X DDR2-800 (DUAL CHANNEL),
4X SATA2 + 2X ATA133, NVRAID, 2X PCI, 1X PCI-EXPRESS 1X, 8 X USB 2.0 (4 BY CABLE), IEEE1394, FULL ATX
FEATURES 1X PCI EXPRESS X16 SLOT, REALTEK 8CH HIGH DEFINITION AUDIO, NVIDIA INTEGRATED LAN, MICROATX, FEATURES SAFE & SMART TECHNOLOGY
Graphics Card: GEFORCE 6100 VGA, 512MB
RAM: Times 2" TRANSCEND® JETRAM™ HIGH-PERFORMANCE 512MB DDR2-533 240-PIN MODULE : CL4, 4-LAYER PC BOARD (Aka in total 1GB Or Ram)
Box: GIGABYTE® CHASSIS - ATX TOWER 4-IN-1 SOLUTIONS : BLACK/SILVER DUAL TONE CHASSIS, KEYBOARD, MOUSE WITH 400W 24-PIN PSU
DVDRW: LITEON® SHORT HALF-HEIGHT DVD MULTI-WRITER + LIGHTSCRIBE, 16X+R/-R, 8X +R/4X -R DL, 8X +RW, 6X -RW, 5X -RAM, 16X DVD, 48XCDR, 24X RW
Harddrive: SEAGATE® BARRACUDA™ 7200.10 SERIES - 250GB SERIAL ATA II (SATA2) PLUS - SERIAL ATA 300 (3GBPS) WITH 16MB CACHE @ 7200RPM
Soundcard: CREATIVE® SOUND BLASTER AUDIGY VALUE PCI SOUND CARD - 6 CHANNEL SURROUND SOUND SUPPORT - EAX SUPPORT


Question 1)

How do I emulate Mp3's to surround sound? In other words how can I get mp3 audio to play out through all my speakers (I have a 5.1 speaker setup)

Question 2) I have two hard discs, the one that Opensuse is installed on an IDE, and the other with all my backups is a SATA drive. Problem is that my SATA drive is formated to be a "Dynamic Disc Drive" and of cause Opensuse can't mount it. Anyideas?

[Tweak]

Not to cut in but while they are answering maybe they can explain how to remove a soundcard, I have opened terminal and logged in as root but when I execute grep sound to view the hardware specifics for my onboard audio which is disabled it just sits there and nothing happens. I can get sound from my Audigy fine as it is soundcard 0 but the extra one seems to take over until I manually change it, within yast I cannot remove it, editing it doesn't allow for a disable of course, ideas would be appreciated, sorry Lino but figured this cuts down on clutter perhaps. I see you asked these questions on the linux? forum, I found some info there that may be useful, you may have seen it already, hopefully it helps.

<<<For your issue I am uncertain but maybe this helps a little:
It seems that snd-intel8x0 driver is just working fine. Only the switches in Kmix should be enabled (Mic as Centre/LFE and Line in as Surround), the video player has to support AC3 ( I used xine 0.99 - only the setup of the audio channel should be set to 0, not to Auto) and of course the movie should be 5.1. The 5.1 surround works with no problem.

<<<There is a lot of info on this page, too much to copy over but it looks like it also may help...
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/li...o-boxes-519584/

<<<For the second question I think you can find the answer here:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/li...ic-disk-169879/

[Linoman]

Thanks man, will look into it when I get back home tomorrow!

[Tweak]

Hope it helps!

[Linoman]

Hey Tweak, tried out these links. And they apperaed as they would work but for somereason linux did it again. So I am still at square 1

[Tweak]

Linoman, on Dec 9 2007, 05:27 AM, said:

Hey Tweak, tried out these links. And they apperaed as they would work but for somereason linux did it again. So I am still at square 1

Although I have a decent beginners concept of Suse I am having my own issues with Grub, I joined linuxquestions.org which I suggest you read as much there as you can then join and post your issues/questions, wish I could help more or tell you why what was working didn't continue to work.