Quick Start Guide
13 Setting Up Hardware Components
with YaST
YaST allows you to congure hardware items at installation time as well as on an
already-installed system. Congure audio hardware, printers or scanner support or
learn which hardware components are connected to your computer by using the
YaST Hardware Information module.
TIP: Graphics card, monitor, mouse and keyboard settings
Graphics card, monitor, mouse and keyboard can be congured with either KDE
or GNOME tools.
13.1 Hardware Information
Use the YaST hardware information module if you want to know more about your
hardware or if you need to nd out details like vendor and model of a certain piece
of hardware to be able to properly congure it.
1 Start YaST and click Hardware > Hardware Information. Hardware probing
starts immediately and it will take some time until you see the hardware in-
formation tree in a separate window.
2 In the hardware information tree recursively click on the entries to expand
the information about a specic device.
3 Click Save to File... to save the output to a le.
4 Click Close to leave the hardware information overview.
13.2 Setting Up Sound Cards
YaST detects most sound cards automatically and congures them with the appropri-
ate values. If you want to change the default settings, or need to set up a sound card
that could not be congured automatically, use the YaST sound module. There, you
can also set up additional sound cards or switch their order.
To start the sound module, start YaST and click Hardware > Sound. Alternatively,
start the Sound Conguration dialog directly by running yast2 sound & as user root
from a command line.
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