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I bought this card (audigy2 platinum)spent 170 bucks now I have a dual boot system windoz98/redhat7.3
I need to know how to get this card working with linux IF I can get this card to work I will prolly ditch windoz forever
the card was the only reason I went back to windoz in the first place
if you know where I can get a driver in rpm form that would be great I REALLY REALLY dont want to have to configure my kernel manually...
and if I do HAVE to tell me how and if the file you are going to give me is a source code you also will have to tell me the steps on how to use it because I have never gotten those files to work
The emu10k1(chipset) driver covers Audigy 2. I have an Audigy 1 and I just installed Mandrake 9.1 (support came built in) but I had gone through many distros b4 that and had to compile the driver. Creative does not support these drivers, but you can you can follow the links below, get the source for it, and compile it.
also, if you wanna take the longer, slightly harder path, i say use ALSA. In the end you'll get a MUCH better sound, and many many many more options and usability out of your card
I also recommend alsa, go to alsa.sourceforge.net and d-load all the packages, then inside them type "./configure && make && make install" then in the alsa-driver-* type ./snddevices then do a chmod 777 /dev/dsp* /dev/snd* /dev/mix*
that should do it.
ok, go to www.kernel.org, d-load the kernel source for your kenel, or the newest source and compile it, eather way then extract the source in /usr/src, link the directory (linux-x.x.x) to linux like this: ln -s /usr/src/linux-x.x.x /usr/src/linux
then go into /usr/src/linux and type make menuconfig, use defaults and close saving changes (even if you made none) then type make dep && make clean. then your sources should be found... or depending on distro you can install a source package (easyer)
then d-load all 5 or 6 sources from alsa.sourceforge.net, make a directory like /usr/src/driver
extract all the alsa bz2 files into that directory.
inside each sub-directory that is made (alsa-driver, alsa-lib, alsa-oss, alsa-utils(tools?)) in that order enter the directories and type: ./configure && make && make install && ldconfig. alsa in the alsa-driver-xxx directory type ./snddevices (unless you use devfs)
that should do it...
sorry if that is hard to understand, let me know if you need a hand stepping through it.
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