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o.k., I'm going nuts trying to get my sound to work!!! After countless days and sleepless nights I still don't get any sound. I love RH9 and I know I'm only a newb but this is too much. Anyway, I have a Aureal Vortex 2 au8830 soundcard on a Sony Vaio. I downloaded the driver but all these errors come up. When I type /usr/sbin/sndconfig, it finds my sndcard but says the aureal semiconductor/ Vortex 2 is not supported! Someone please help me! I'm desperate. Thanx in advance guys!
Originally posted by safil I downloaded the driver but all these errors come up. When I type /usr/sbin/sndconfig, it finds my sndcard but says the aureal semiconductor/ Vortex 2 is not supported!
What have you done after downloading the driver? Please write in details.
You said that you couldn't find the module. Well, it could be included in the driver package you downloaded. so back to that:
What exactly was it you downloaded? Was it an rpm? a tarball (.tar.gz)
You said it returned some errors when you installed it. What exactly were the errors?
I downloaded and installed the alsa drivers, libraries, oss, tools, and utilities. what do I do next?
P.S. - The aureal au8830.o module isn't there. should I install it?
Distribution: Fedora Core 1 & WinXP Pro & Gentoo 1.4 & Arch Linux
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May not help much but did you try re-booting your comp to see if the magical penguins do their work or go into aumix and adjust the sound. I'm using Nforce2 onboad sound and it didn't list the module until after I rebooted my system.
When you say you downloaded and installed the drivers what EXACTLY did you do (give us the commands that you typed)? Did you at any point type the lines ./configure --with-cards=<yourcard>, make and make install? If not, did you install from an rpm file? If none of the above then it's pretty safe to say you haven't installed your drivers. There are pretty detailed instructions on the also site (www.alsa-project.org).
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