hey guys, i recently installed suse on my laptop, but my soundcard only works on windows and not linux. im considering getting a new soundcard. does anyone know of a card that'll fit in my vaio laptop (13.1" screen), and be compatible with suse? thanks.

Not much can be changed on a laptop besides installing extra memory, i think you'll find that sound is built in on laptop and so it can't be changed. What you can do though is find out any info regarding your sound and trying to get a driver for it, or post on the forums. Another thing to try is to change your alsamixer settings. When i do a new install of Slack on my vaio my sound is muted and i have to go into the alsa settings and change it.

$ alsamixer

Change the master volume and stuff, then exit..

$ alsactl store

That will save the settings (might need to be root).

Is your sound card recognized, like in the Suse control centre? (not sure what it is called).

Hope that helps..

Cheers