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Today, multimedia support is great and continually
improving.
openSUSE Linux supports most current sound cards out of the box. During the openSUSE
Linux installation, YaST should recognize and give you a default configuration for both
your sound and video cards, enough to get you up and running. Although you can
further configure both cards during the setup, it??™s better to get your system going and
then tweak later through YaST.
Default sound support for openSUSE Linux is provided through ALSA, the Advanced
Linux Sound Architecture. ALSA began as a simple project to write better drivers for a
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single sound card, and it blossomed. It has been supported in the kernel since v2.5 and
has been the default sound system since v2.6. It supports everything from consumer
sound cards to multichannel interfaces and will play multiple audio streams simultaneously
if you want. YaST handles all the configuration tasks for ALSA, and you are no
longer required to load the kernel modules manually. This is the topic of the next section.


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