Vortex 2
 

I have a OEM Turtle Beach Montego 2 A3D sound card, and it uses a vortex 2 chipset. Ive had problems getting this card to work on Slackware 9 using the drivers from aureal.sourceforge.net. Basically those drivers don't work because the kernel is compiled with gcc 3 and the module is compiled with gcc 2, There is another site that claims to have Alsa drivers for this card that work with kernel 2.4.x, but you need files from the OpenVortex cvs. What I would like to know is what files i need and how do I install them.

Thanks
Kris

Links :


Alsa: http://www.alsa-project.org/
OpenVortex: http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/openvortex/

So I got desperate and recompiled my kernel using gcc 2 and now the module loads, I get a module is tainted warning but that's ok, problem is when i start up kde it tries to change the bitrate, the sound card doesnt like this and kde then pipes everything audio related to /dev/null. Anyone know whats up and how to fix it?

Thanks
Kris

You can force the module to load with insmod -f au8830, this way you can load em while you have a gcc3 compiled kernel, also be sure you have soundcore loaded in hte kernel or as module. Be sure you have correct permissions on /dev/dsp.
In the sound configuration of KDE don't use any auto detects, use Threaded OSS, full duplex, bitrate 44100, and start as realtime. This worked for me

i got my au8830 soundcard working instantly. You have to download the latest driver for it. Go to this link and follow the exact directions. Works great! http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.p...forum_id=25250

Thanks for your help, but I got it working a while ago using the alsa modules for my card.