unable to install drivers on fedora 1, cmedia 9739
 

Fedora Core 1
Kernel 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl
/sbin/lspci returns this for my sound card:
00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Sound Cont roller (rev a0)


I am having trouble installing the sound drivers for my onboard c-media cmi9739a card.

I have downloaded the linux drivers from the c-media website.

This is what unzipped:
ali_5451.c cmconfig.c cmi9739.c main.c Readme.txt via_82cxxx.c
cmaudio.h cmi9738.c intel_ichx.c Makefile sis_7018.c

The readme says:
"Step 2. Turn on sound support (soundcore module)"

I've searched and searched, but I can't figure out how to turn sound support on. I assume it's on, because I have sound and it's working, but it sounds very muffled.

Souncard Detection says it's a SiS i810, but the test sound won't play.

Running ./configure comes up with the following error:
bash: ./configure: No such file or directory

So I try make and get a laundry list of errors, most of which are to the tune of:
main.c:2033: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type

Should I be happy with what I have? I'd like to get it to work in 5.1 and be able to use the mixer to raise and lower the volume (which doesn't affect anything right now).

Thanks!

if the readme tells you ro run configure (./configure) and the file is not there you might want to download the file again. You always need to run configure before running make so please make sure you have the configure file.

an easy way is to download the fedora sound card utility, this will install generic drivers for the card you have, and its never failed me (even working for a 5.1 surround sound card) the utility is 'system-config-soundcard', to get it just type in terminal...

apt-get install system-config-soundcard

then to run it just type in terminal 'system-config-soundcard'

a good mixer is alsamixer, you can apt-get install that one too :)

I had a c-media on an older motherboard, alsa seemed to be easier to setup and less work than the c-media driver from their website. My (old) alsa steps.