6 To remove a sound card conguration that you no longer need, select the
respective entry and click Delete.
7 Click OK to save the changes and leave the YaST sound module.
Procedure 2.2 Modifying Sound Card Congurations
1 To change the conguration of an individual sound card (for experts only!),
select the sound card entry in the Sound Conguration dialog and click Edit.
This takes you to the Sound Card Advanced Options where you can ne-tune
a number of parameters. For more information, click Help.
2 To adjust the volume of an already congured sound card or to test the sound
card, select the sound card entry in the Sound Conguration dialog and click
Other. Select the respective menu item.
3 For playback of MIDI les, select Other > Start Sequencer.
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When a supported sound card is detected (like a Creative Soundblaster Live,
Audigy or AWE sound card), you can also install SoundFonts for playback of
MIDI les:
4a Insert the original driver CD-ROM into your CD or DVD drive.
4b Select Other > Install SoundFonts to copy SF2 SoundFonts™ to your
hard disk. The SoundFonts are saved in the directory /usr/share/
sfbank/creative/.
5 If you have congured more than one sound card in your system you can adjust
the order of your sound cards. To set a sound card as primary device, select
the sound card in the Sound Conguration and click Other > Set as the Primary
Card. The sound device with index 0 is the default device and thus used by
the system and the applications.
6 To enable or disable the PulseAudio sound system, click Other > PulseAudio
Conguration. If enabled, PulseAudio daemon is used to play sounds. Disable
PulseAudio Support in case you want to use something else system-wide.
The volume and conguration of all sound cards are saved when you click OK and
leave the YaST sound module. The mixer settings are saved to the le /etc/asound
.conf and the ALSA conguration data is appended to the end of the les /etc/
modprobe.d/sound and /etc/sysconfig/hardware.
2.3 Setting Up a Printer
YaST can be used to congure a local printer that is directly connected to your ma-
chine (normally with USB or parallel port) and to set up printing with network printers.
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