Hey all, just found this site, been a great help already....
I just decided to swap my PCI Gamesurround Fortissimo 2 Digital, back to my mobo's (A7V333) onboard sound, as the ALSA driver allows the use of the cards S/PDIF in and out...
I successfully managed to install the ALSA drivers for the Fortissimo...I removed the card and re-enabled the o/b sound. The hardware was configured during bootup, where I found a problem with applications (gaim) not starting, and the PCM volume doing nothing when moved.
So I then proceeded to install the ALSA drivers for the o/b sound, following the steps from
http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc...&module=cmipci
1. ran $modinfo soundcore
filename: /lib/modules/2.4.18-14/kernel/drivers/sound/soundcore.o
description: "Core sound module"
author: "Alan Cox"
license: "GPL"
2. unzipped and installed the driver package with
./configure --with-cards=cmipci --with-sequencer=yes;make;make install
3. ran $chmod a+rw /dev/dsp /dev/mixer /dev/sequencer /dev/midi
4. unzipped and installed the lib package with
./configure;make;make install
5. unzipped and installed the utils package with
./configure;make;make install
6. added the following to /etc/modules.conf
# ALSA portion
alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-cmipci
# module options should go here
# OSS/Free portion
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
# card #1
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
6. ran $modprobe snd-cmipci;modprobe snd-pcm-oss;modprobe snd-mixer-oss;modprobe snd-seq-oss
All the above steps run flawlessly, no errors of any kind. According to the install instructions, all mixer channels will now be muted, but they were not. Also, kmix also showed the name of the card before the ALSA's were installed, "CMedia PCI"
I installed the ALSA output plugin for XMMS, as the arts driver is appauling with lots of sounds for some reason. This worked totally fine on my other card, but XMMS crashes when I try to play a file now, also, the OSS driver no longer works, XMMS just crashes.
To top all this off, gaim will no longer start up, the process starts, but nothing ever appears, and I have to kill it with ksysguard.
Also, $modinfo soundcore...still gives me the same information it did before I attempted to install the ALSA drivers. Can someone please give me a hand with this, and tell me where I have gone wrong
I am only a newbie to the linux world, about two weeks since I installed RH8.0, although I did try Mandrake 8.2 (yuck) and RH7.3 in the past, at the time my gfx card didnt like linux so I gave up til I got a new one.
Thankyou all!!!!!
