I'm probably going to have to dump Linux because I have no sound
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I'm probably going to have to dump Linux because I have no sound
I got the E-MU 1212 sound card. Good high quality card for those of use that do computer recording. Unfortunately there are no Linux drivers for it.
There are something called ALSA drivers however. One guy posted a brief article on how to get the 1212 card working with these drivers, but it has not worked for me.
First he said to download the latest ALSA drivers. I did that and I saved them to my Flash Drive.
Then he said to open up a command window and type this:
That is one of four entries he says to type. But after I type that and hit Enter, it just says "No such file or directory..."
I think that wget and that ftp stuff is actually telling Ubuntu to access the web and look for it. I downloaded the drivers and saved them to my Flash so I don't think I would really need to enter in that wget and ftp stuff.
But I don't have a clue as to how I would install the drivers I downloaded.
So you have instructions to download the latest alsa drivers using the ftp command and the ftp command is not working for you but you have already downloaded the latest drivers.
So what do the instructions say to do next?
Distribution: Xubuntu 9.10, Gentoo 2.6.27 (AMD64), Darwin 9.0.0 (arm)
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ALSA = Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
These are the linux sound drivers
don't give up yet we just need more information in order to help you. what distro are you on? what is the output of 'lspci'?
I have my mAudio Delta1010 recording card working with linux and there is some very nice software for doing this type of work on linux. just stick with it. it's going to take some work, but in the end it's worth it.
I think I downloaded the drivers from the ftp site. I think the guy wrote some wrong stuff in his directions. I changed a few things and in the command window it looked like all four files actually downloaded.
I'm using Ubuntu.
But one of them is a firmware file. I do not want to install anything that is going to flash or update some chip on my soundcard. Nope. And I think that is what firmware does doesn't it?
Distribution: Xubuntu 9.10, Gentoo 2.6.27 (AMD64), Darwin 9.0.0 (arm)
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I don't see why anything would update the firmware on you card. you're never going to get the help you need unless you cooperate. please post a link to the directions you are following or cut and paste them verbatim! don't leave anything out because you don't think it's important 'cause you don't know what's important.
if you read down through the posts there are a couple ways to install the drivers if the first method didn't work...
I mean WOW
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sudo apt-get -y build-dep alsa-lib alsa-utils alsa-driver && cd /home/$USER/compiled/alsa-driver-1.0.16 && ./configure --with-cards=emu10k1 && make && sudo make install && cd ../alsa-lib-1.0.16 && ./configure --with-cards=emu10k1 && make && sudo make install && cd ../alsa-firmware-1.0.16/ && ./configure --with-cards=emu10k1 && make && sudo make install && cd ../alsa-utils-1.0.16/ && ./configure --with-cards=emu10k1 && make && sudo make install
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