AC'97 and mandrake 8.2?

huong23 · 04-07-2002, 05:15 PM

I have a MSI Kt7266 Pro2 motherboard that has the built in AC 97 sound card. I installed Mandrake 8.2 and couldn't get the AC'97 to work. I downloaded drivers from VIAtech but it won't work because it was designed for an older kernel..Anything else I can do?

Thymox · 04-10-2002, 01:13 PM

Welcome to LQ.

What did you try to get the sound drivers to work?

Have you tried typing modprobe ac97? I am pretty sure that there are drivers for it (called modules). Try looking in the directory /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/drivers/sound (or something) and see if there's a file called ac97.o. If so, this is the driver, and it should load with the modprobe command above.

Hope this helps, good luck and have fun with Linux.

huong23 · 04-10-2002, 07:14 PM

Ah..I overlooked the drivers folder that the kernel came with...thanks..I will try that right away.

huong23 · 04-10-2002, 09:25 PM

Hmm..no good..I typed modprobe ac97 in the sound driver you told me under root privileges...but all i got back to was the command prompt and on reboot my AC'97 built in sound card is still not working at all..Plz help.

smith · 05-24-2002, 07:33 PM

I had the same problem. Go to:

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/K7s5a-HOWTO.html
Title: The Elite's K7s5a mainboard HOWTO
Subtitle: How to use Elite's K7s5a mainboard under GNU/Linux.

click on the link "2.3 Kernel Approach: The AC'97 Driver"

I typed "modprobe i810_audio" --> now mp3s and audio CD work fine. Note: I did not get terminal output like the article says. No biggie, but weird. I have not rebooted yet, so I may still need to issue the "echo..." command like the article says. If that doesn't work, I'll try to remember to post here again.