Just installed SUSE 9.0 and have many problems!

[chris_r_allan]

I've just installed Linux on a home built PC, and have a number of questions.
i) With my soundcard an installation CD was included. I haven't used it yet as when i insert it into the DVD / CD drive nothing happens.
Going through YaST on the sound configuration on Hardware, it has detected 2 sound cards, including the soundblaster that i have. But i get no sound when playing CDs - even though the KsCD player shows the right number of tracks etc.
Do i need to use the installation CD? And if so how? I put the CD in and can see all the files in file manager, but when i click on teh autorun it shows the text.
What am i doing wrong?
II) I have similar problems with my AGP card - i don't think its picked up the correct card (GeForce FX 5200) and says 3D accelarator is not activated. Again I have an unused installation CD.
iii) I similarly have unused installation CDs for my DVD drive, although this seems to work, but power DVD software - can I install that?

Any help would be greatly appreciated by this Linux novice.

[sdousley]

i) Not sure what you can do with your sound card.

ii) try downloiading and installing the nvidia drivers from Nvidia's Website This should solve your graphics problem.

iii) Have you mounted the CD drive? Try going to a shell and su to root, and type mount /dev/cdrom
this should moount the cdrom to /media/cdrom usually. if it's not there, check your /etc/fstab file for where the cdrom mounts to and it will be there.

[ooop]

Another thing :

if the cdrom for some obscure reason isn't listed in your fstab, you can always do this

chech whether the cd is on hda, hdb, hdc or hdd
hda - Primary Master, hdb - Primary Slave - hdc - Secondary master ...

and then do this

mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdx /mnt/cdrom
(assuming that you have a directory named /mnt/cdrom onto which you would like to mount the cdrom)