Cannot detect Quad X-Treme sound card

gurre · 08-05-2002, 02:43 PM

I got a Quad X-Treme 256 sound card from Media forte. It is not detected during install and I get the "Could not open /dev/dsp..." message. I am using the Lycoris distro with 2.4.18 kernel. At some point I tried it out with Suse 7.1 and there the sound card worked. Does anyone know what module I should use? Mediaforte themselves proclaims that the card does not work under Linux.

finegan · 08-05-2002, 03:33 PM

Its a matter of findout out what the card's chipset is and then figuring out the module for that. Media Forte is probably one of a dozen brand names re-distributing basically the same card.

lspci -v

Then take the specific audio controller info and forcefeed that into www.google.com/linux to figure out the module, and or post it here and we can figure it out.

Cheers,

Finegan

gurre · 08-06-2002, 03:45 PM

I did not manage to use cut and paste in any way to get the result in here, but I think one of the important keywords is fm801.

finegan · 08-06-2002, 08:15 PM

It seems that the fm801 is only included in the alsa modules, and is not part of the stock kernel. You'll want to try one of the alsa how-tos, an up to date one can probably be found at the project site.

Luck,

Finegan

finegan · 08-06-2002, 08:19 PM

The fm801 only seems to work under the alsa drivers, which can be a pain to get working. You can find some pretty good how-tos, but some of them are quite out of date, so its probably best to start from the project page.

Cheers,

Finegan