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I am new to linux and extremely inexperienced with this operating system. I have linux mint 17.3 (cinnamon). Previous to getting linux, my motherboard (Asus Gryphon z87) onboard sound broke physically. The rest of the motherboard still works fine. To solve this, I bought a Sound Blaster Audigy Fx sound card. It worked with windows 7 and 10 when I used those. Now on linux it doesn't work and the company website does not have drivers for linux on their website that I can find (just ones for windows). I tried doing what nortin suggested.
I copied the text and pasted it into "text editor," removed the 6 spaces from the ftp addresses, and then saved it on the desktop as install.sh. Then I used the command he said to use in the terminal, and after some "No such file or directory" errors, I put copies of the install.sh file I created in the "home" folder under my computer and the "root" folder under "file system" simply as a guess that it might find the files there. Apparently it did.
Now in the home folder, I have 6 new folders: "alsa-firmware-1.0.29.tar.bz2", "alsa-lib-1.0.29.tar.bz2", and "alsa-utils-1.0.29.tar.bz2", which appear to be zip or archive files of some sort, and then I have "alsa-firmware-1.0.29", "alsa-lib-1.0.29", and "alsa-utils-1.0.29" which appear to be the unzipped versions of the first 3.
I get the feeling I haven't necessarily done anything wrong yet, but I am unsure of what to do with these new folders. I have to install them somehow maybe? I tried restarting linux in the hopes that maybe everything was already done for me. No sound. Please help.
EDIT: Will also note that now "you tube" videos crash saying that the adobe flash plugin has crashed in firefox. Can't watch them any more even silently.
Last edited by val82; 12-13-2015 at 04:00 PM.
Reason: to add additional info
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