Complete linux noob needs help

[Carrot2324]

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Hello i installed Linux suse yesterday and have no idea how to get my hardware working and drivers installed. I have the following

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E4500 - working
RAM: 2 GB DDR2 800 MHz -working
ASUS P5B-VM motherboard (G965 + I C H - working
Sound: Creative X-FI Extreme Audio PCI-Express or Intel onboard - neither
Graphics: ATI 3870 - working
TV card: WinTV 1300 - not working
Network: Gigabit Ethernet and edimax usb wireless - both working

could someone please give me instructions as to installing my sound cards and TV card so they work.

All help is greatly thanked

[whych]

First thing to do is to add the following repositories:

opensuse non-oss
ati
packaman
videolan

You get these in yast>software>repos>community repos

Once they are set up, install the ati drivers from the ati repo.
The sound and network should be supported automatically.
You may have to have a search for wintv drivers.

[Carrot2324]

heyy thanks ive added the items that you said from the repos but how do install a driver from the ati repos ??

[whych]

Go to yast>software>install
In the search box type ati and search. It should list the drivers. Click the check boxes.

[Carrot2324]

ok i have done that is there any way to test to see if 3d acceleration is working the sound is now also working and i cant seem to get my TV tuner to work when i go to watch TV it says that the video4Linux2 plugin is not configured. I have installed the correct drivers im pretty sure.

[whych]

Try looking in yast>hardware>tv card. (don't have a tv card, so never done it)

[gogalthorp]

A quick way to check for 3d is to open a console type

glxgears

a graphic of rotating gears will open. Also in the console the FPS (frames per second) are reported. This value should be in the thousands or 10's of thousands if you have 3d acceleration.