Ok, heres the deal. I'm a newbie, im ready to ditch winbloze, excpet for one thing.... My sound wont work in 6 point surround. I have a CMedia 8738 Sound card, but i only get feed through 2 of the 6 channels. I have been told that all i need to do is to make menuconfig in the linux source directory and then change the soudn settings to 6 speakers. I have done this, but my problem is that whenever i re-compile the kernel, the make modules command and the commands after that all return a whole lot of errors, and then when i reboot, linux cannot start any modules, including usb-uhci, which is bad news as i use a usb keyboard and mouse and end up locked out of linux :|

I run Mandrake 8.2 if that is any help.... please can someone help me.

what kind of errors is your kernal compile spitting out?

You said that you've done the make modules step, but have you done the make modules_install bit?

Yeah, ive followed all the steps in recompiling. Sorry i cant tell you the errors, as now i cant log in without a keyboard or mouse... I cant remember exactly, the make dep runs fine. Make modules returns a whole lot of red error messages, make modules_install starts to do something but stops very shortly with an error message. depmod -a does the same.

On the company website, it is telling me to do it differently to what people on here are saying. They say that you dont configure the multi-channel in the kernel, but in a module.

They Say: Configure the 4 Channel setting parameters:

a)Modify the /etc/conf.modules configuration file using vi text-editor

#vi /etc/conf.modules

b)Use the “a” command to modify and add in a line as follows:

“options cmpci four_ch=1”

c)Press ESC and key-in “：wq” to save the configuration and exit.


I dont have that conf file, either because im on a different distro (the tutorial was written ased around redhat) or because the make modules command isnt working (they say to re - compile the kernel first enabling cmedia sound cards, which i have tried, wont work.)