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the_escapistI've been getting increasingly fed up with Windows lately, and so have been fiddling around with various Linux distros, namely Ubuntu and Mandriva. I soon discovered that my sound card was unsupported, and had basically resigned myself to the fact that I wouldn't be able to really use Linux on this computer. Yesterday, I thought I'd set up a dual boot with OpenSUSE 11.1 (w/ KDE 4.1.3) regardless, and mere hours later found a driver for my sound card.
Installation instructions read thusly:
In terminal,
1) Goto source directory
2) Execute make command as root
make
make install
I know enough to understand what it's telling me to do, but my problem is that I have no idea what to type into the terminal to actually do it. I've been researching commands ever since, but it's taking a while and right now I'd really just like to get my sound card working. Can anyone help me?
Installation instructions read thusly:
In terminal,
1) Goto source directory
2) Execute make command as root
make
make install
I know enough to understand what it's telling me to do, but my problem is that I have no idea what to type into the terminal to actually do it. I've been researching commands ever since, but it's taking a while and right now I'd really just like to get my sound card working. Can anyone help me?