Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION 04-08-2006 Installation Manual page 156

To configure your mouse for the text environment, use YaST in text mode. After entering
text mode and selecting Hardware → Mouse Model, use the keyboard arrow keys to
choose your mouse from the provided list. Then click Accept to save the settings and
exit the module.
7.4.10 Sound
Use Hardware → Sound to configure a sound card. Most sound cards are detected au-
tomatically and listed. Select the one to configure or modify then click Edit. Use Delete
to remove a sound card. This deactivates existing entries of configured sound cards in
/etc/modprobe.d/sound.
Click Other to open a dialog in which to customize the sound module options manually.
With Add, configure additional sound cards. If YaST detects another sound card, select
it then use Edit.
The volume and configuration of all sound cards installed are saved when you click
Finish. The mixer settings are saved to the file /etc/asound.conf and the ALSA
configuration data is appended at the end of the files /etc/modprobe.d/sound
and /etc/sysconfig/hardware.
If YaST is unable to detect your sound card automatically, proceed as follows:
1 Click Add to open a dialog in which to select a sound card vendor and model.
2 In Setup Dialog, choose the configuration level in the first setup screen. With
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Refer to your sound card documentation for the information required. Find a
reference list of sound cards supported by ALSA with their corresponding sound
modules in /usr/share/doc/packages/alsa/cards.txt and at
http://www.alsa-project.org/~goemon/. After making your selec-
tion, click Next.
Quick Automatic Setup, you are not required to go through any of the further
configuration steps and no sound test is performed. The sound card is configured
automatically. With Normal Setup, you can adjust the output volume and play a
test sound. Advanced setup with possibility to change options allows you to
customize the sound card options manually.
In this dialog, there is also a shortcut to joystick configuration. Click it and select
the joystick type in the following dialog. Click Next to continue.