Audigy Driver Installation

xanas3712 · 05-06-2004, 05:40 PM

I recently compiled 2.6.5 and am now trying to get my sound card to work with it. Anyway, I made a symbolic link to the source (to redirect the old path) ln -s linux-2.6.5 linux

I have the audigy source in my home directory untarred (it didn't say to move it).. I've edited the config file to point to the /usr/src/linux directory...

and.. i'm getting the following errors

(ehh.. now i just realized I have no idea how to copy from the console window.. control c control v doesn't work for that here.. and neither does right clicking.. well anyway..
)

EDIT: noticed the lack of a 2.6 directory for the source.. heh.. should have noticed earlier. Anyway so this driver isn't for 2.6 because 2.6 should support the card but.. it's not detecting it and afaik hotplug is working...

*sighs..*

oh.. and I didn't say it earlier but alsaconf says it doesn't detect a compatible pci card...

fancypiper · 05-06-2004, 05:53 PM

Linux copy: hold left click while swiping desired text
Linux paste: Postion cursor where you want text pasted to, then middle click.

xanas3712 · 05-06-2004, 06:03 PM

wow.. works.. lol.. anyway.. doens't matter as those errors aren't important now since 2.6 is supposed to support audigy.. i think
but either way that source isn't made for 2.6

Thanks

fancypiper · 05-06-2004, 06:10 PM

I thought that you had to compile that driver into the 2.6 kernel.

I have a win<something> or some other kernel module driver I have to install.
# Compiling/installing kernel modules
You will need to have installed:
1. The developmental packages (compiler)
2. The kernel-source code that matches your running kernel
3. The module source or install code

Check out your system and look under the hood and see if you installed the stuff you need to do the job. Open an x terminal and type in this sequence of commands to see what kernel we are running and see if you have the kernel source installed:

Code:

[fancy@tinwhistle fancy]$ su -
Password:
[root@tinwhistle root]# uname -r
2.4.20-28.7

I am running kernel version 2.4.20-28.7. Do I have the proper source code?

Code:

[root@tinwhistle root]# cd /usr/src
[root@tinwhistle src]# ls -alc
total 3
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root          136 Jun 12 14:53 .
drwxr-xr-x   16 root     root          424 Jun  4 12:04 ..
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           14 Jun  4 12:11 linux-2.4 -> linux-2.4.20-28.7
drwxr-xr-x   16 root     root          584 Jun  4 12:11 linux-2.4.20-28.7
drwxr-xr-x    7 root     root          168 Jun  4 12:08 redhat
[root@tinwhistle src]#

I do have the same kernel version source code installed in the directory /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-28.7 and there is a symbolic link named linux-2.4 pointing to it.

If you don't see something similiar to this (but in color), you will need to install the kernel source.

NOTE: I noticed that Red Hat didn't make the symbolic link /usr/src/linux that all of the INSTALL files that I have read mentioned that I need. I may as well make one now to save editing the files in the source code every time I need to compile anything concerning the kernel. So, I'll make that link just now:

Code:

[root@tinwhistle src]# ln -s linux-2.4.20-28.7 linux         
[root@tinwhistle src]# ls -alc
total 3
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root          160 Jun 12 15:46 .
drwxr-xr-x   16 root     root          424 Jun  4 12:04 ..
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           14 Jun 12 15:46 linux -> linux-2.4.20-28.7
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           14 Jun  4 12:11 linux-2.4 -> linux-2.4.20-28.7
drwxr-xr-x   16 root     root          584 Jun  4 12:11 linux-2.4.20-28.7
drwxr-xr-x    7 root     root          168 Jun  4 12:08 redhat
[root@tinwhistle src]#

Ah, there it is, so that's done.

Next, did I install the compiler?

Code:

[root@tinwhistle src]# gcc -v          
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/specs
gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.3 2.96-113)
[root@tinwhistle src]#

Yes, I have a compiler installed.

If you don't have those two things installed, you have to install them first off your install CD.

If they are installed, download the source and happy compiling.

Make sure you carefully read the README and INSTALL files after extracting and before compiling/installing.

xanas3712 · 05-06-2004, 06:15 PM

I have gcc, I have 2.6.5 source (of course.. I had to compile it cause slack starts with 2.4.x)..

Anyway, the problem is that alsaconf doesn't seem to detect this card at all.. I didn't notice when I used make menuconfig anything along the lines of sound support but maybe I missed it.. and looking at the source for the driver made available here it has a 2.4 and 2.2 directory (I presume for those kernel versions) but not 2.6.. so I'm pretty sure 2.6 should just support it.. but what do I know.. all I know is that it won't compile properly for 2.6..

fancypiper · 05-06-2004, 06:34 PM

I haven't moved up to that kernel, but remember alsa defaults to everything muted upon install. I think I remember reading that the SBlive driver is somewhere in the kernel configuration. I have been known to be wrong, however. The command:

cat /proc/pci | less

will let you see pci card details. Can you see the soundcard? If so, do:

lsmod | less

and see if there is a module called emu10k1.

If not, what's the response to the command modprobe emu10k1

xanas3712 · 05-06-2004, 06:35 PM

yeah none of those things work.. I need to redo the kernel apparently I didn't have the right driver compiled into it. I used make xconfig this time (much nicer to use than menuconfig).. and I see exactly what the problem is.. thanks for the help..