I have installed RedHat 8 and my Avance Logic ALS4000 sound card does not appear to be working. Can someone explain to me how to install the drivers for this card (including where to find them). Please remember I am a recovering Windows user and have grown accustome to just clicking on files to get them to install, so the simpler the instructions the better.

Thanx in advance..
rB

I poked around on google for it, its supported under ALSA, but let's not go there just yet. What happens in RH when you run, as root, "sndconfig" or was that "soundconfig", its been a while.

Cheers,

Finegan

They both come back with command not found

If I go to the system tools and soundcard detection, it sees it as the ALS4000

it is in either /sbin or /usr/sbin
you need to load environment for root if you are su'ing to root from a shell
/bin/su -
Note the "-" character.

It doesn't matter, I looked it up further and there is no standard kernel module for that soundcard. It is covered under the ALSA modules, but that's a little more involved to get working. I mean... its going to involve compiling, quite a bit of it.

Post back if your still intested.

Cheers,

Finegan

I am still interested.. I tried following the instructions from the alsa site for the card, and ran ./configure --with-cards=als4000 --with-sequencer=yes
That goes fine. I run make:
make[2]: *** [../include/modules/sound.ver] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/alsa/alsa-driver-0.5.12a/kernel'
make[1]: *** [dep] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/alsa/alsa-driver-0.5.12a'
make: *** [include/sndversions.h] Error 2

I am doing this as root. Any ideas Finegan?

And when I run /sbin/sndconfig I get:
The Avance Logic Inc.|ALS4000 Audio
Chipset is not currently supported.

:-(

He, I have the same problem. vvhitekid, did you solve the problem on your machine ?

Guys i am also having the same problem. I don't know what to do. There must be a solution
I f it is there please let me know at johnny123in@yahoo.co.in
thanks

johnnyde, I solved my problem. The sound card is perfactly suported.
What have you tried and what is not working? Did you try to compile the alsa drivers? What did you do?

And one other thing. It's not nice to say to e-mail you with the solution. This forum is designd so that other people can see how problems are solved if they encounter one them selfs.

schatoor ,
I compiled the alsa drivers. after that the sound card detection is ok and the sound module is also loaded. But insmod reports many unresolved symbols and my card is not screeming yet.
Sorry about he email stuff
Thanks
Johnny

I don't quite understand what the problem is. What do you mean by the sound card is detected okey? And if the sound modules are loaded, why do you do insmod?
Give me the output of lsmod, so I can see what modules are loaded. Also post the result of typing "depmod -a" as root in a console.
It's kind of strange you would get unresolved symbols in a driver you compiled your self. Very strange!
Also note that the sound card is muted by default. So if you want to play any thing, you will have to pump up the volume (Not to loud though ) Start "alsamixer" and set "master" higher. You did install alsa utils right? It might help.

i don't know ,but i think i must to study handly