[Debian] That freaking Audigy trouble
 

I have to make my soundblaster audigy player work on Debian "Woody" 3.0r1.

What I tried follow:

I downloaded this package: "emu10k1-v0.20a.tar.bz2".

I bunzipped and tarred it, then I checked out the value of the variable KERNEL_SOURCE viewing the config file.

The default value was something like "/lib/modules/'uname -r'/build", but I read on an installation guide to set the value make it pointing the kernel-source.
The guide suggested "/usr/src/linux" or "/usr/src/linux-2.4".

I found in "/usr/src" the compressed package of kernel-source: is it right? I have to extract it?

The next step should be "make" in the extracted driver directory.
Reading the error message I understood to set the path as "/usr" because it appends automatically "/linux/include" (or "/include/linux" I don't remember").
Well, it seemed a good idea, I saw some code appearing then another error message: it failed seeking ".config" and the reason is the uncommon path of the source. It suggested to copy that file in the same directory, "usr/linux/include" (or /usr/include/linux maybe).

What a mess, guys.

I really need damnly a hand to get out of this trouble.

Thanks, everybody. :study:

When you install a Debian kernel source package it leaves the source compressed in /usr/src. You'll need to uncompress it yourself. The name of the source directory will then be something like :
/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.20 (with the last part depending on your kernel version).

I didn't understand the second part of your question. Are you referring to the KERNEL_SOURCE path or to some other path ?

Tim

It's more complicated to tell than what's really be.
I gonna extract that archive and try again, then I eventually report what's gone wrong.
See ya later and thanks. :p

Here I am.

Well, I extract the kernel-source-2.4.18 archive then I correct the emu10k1-v0.20a config file assigning "/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18" to the variable KERNEL_SOURCE.

I cd in order to reach emu10k1-v0.20a directory, then I launch "make" but it doesn't work because it can't find a file called "version.h" in "/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18/linux/include" ("/linux/include" is added by the program).

How come that file isn't there? How can I fix it? :confused:

Check this out http://www.sonic.net/~rknop/linux/debian_alsa.html
The point I am not clear with is as follows:
If you compile your own kernel all that is supposed to be included for sound is the sound core and nothing else - no OSS no modules.
Got no idea how that will play with a stock kernel.

I think that link is referring to something different.

Alsa doesn't support my soundcard by default, because the most recent soundblaster supported is the Live! model.

Anyway I downloaded a good driver for my Audigy and clicking this link http://sourceforge.net/docman/displa...group_id=44773
you can see the installation guide I talked about.

Check this out, so you gonna understand what I said pretty good. :p
I can't yet get how come tha unpacked kernel-source hasn't the file needed by the driver. :mad:

Got you now.That file is in /usr/src/yourkernel/include/linux
Not in /linux/include.Looks like it would normally look at /usr/src/linux/include meaning something is wrong with the variable kernel_source.My best guess anyway w/o knowing the config file.

Edit:Let me elaborate on this before I get beat up again.The kernel is normally in /usr/src/linux where /usr/src/linux is a link that points to the actual kernel source.It is done that way that you can work with different kernels easy.If you want to use a different kernel source for some reason you just change that link.So basically the config script is looking in the right place by default which would be /usr/src/linux/include
The error is that you got kernel-source-blah in between /usr/src/ and linux/include.

You were right, man.

Now I correct the variable KERNEL_SOURCE in config like this: "/usr/src/linux".

The file version.h is there indeed, anyway I got this error when I try to launch "make" in the unpacked driver folder:

pc_name:/usr/Audigy/emu10k1-v0.20a# make
make -Cscripts
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/Audigy/emu10k1-v0.20a/scripts'
cc -I/usr/src/linux/include get_version.c -o get_version
make -f /usr/Audigy/emu10k1-v0.20a/scripts/Makefile.get_options -C /usr/src/linux get_version_target
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf2.4'
/usr/Audigy/emu10k1-v0.20a/scripts/Makefile.get_options:17: Makefile: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `Makefile'. Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf2.4'
make[1]: *** [get_options] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/Audigy/emu10k1-v0.20a/scripts'
make: *** [opts] Error 2
pc_name:/usr/Audigy/emu10k1-v0.20a#

What do you think about that? :(

It seems that it also expects a kernel-headers package to be installed. I think the following will help :

# apt-get install kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf2.4

Tim

You're right, but the path "/usr/src/linux" point to that kernel-headers since it's already installed.
Morover I used that package to make my Nvidia work, so it's correctly installed I guess.

So how to solve that problem?

Well, it's been quiete a while. Anyway now I'm gladly running Slackware 9.1, full installation, and my Audigy Player worked since the first time.
I can't exactly explain why, but I suspect there was some trouble about lack of tcl/tk libraries linked to Emu10k1.

Before Slack I put on Mandrake9.2, it got the soundcard immediatly too, though this distro chose by default Emu10k2, more suitable for Audigy 1 and 2 family.

Same days ago I tryed RED-HAT works - no problem

But I need to make work on DEBIAN, so I don't know what to do.

How to make work on kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4 ?

Where is those source?
I check apt-cache search kernel-source , bur there is only 2.4.18 source

It should be better compiling the last stable version series 2.4.x, the default kernel version is too old, man.

Morover Debian Sarge is out there right now.