i810_audio.. not nvaudio?
 

i`m just confused, the drivers that nvidia made had a driver called nvaudio.. but when i ran the soundcard detection thing, it says that my soundcard is an i810_audio.. i did a little bit of googling around and found out that it`s the same as AC97 codec and i read somewhere that installing intel`s chipset drivers for i810 will fix problems.. the good news is, i got the volume control online, but the bad news is, it dont seem to work.. no sound..

the question is, how do i get the sound to work? i heard about ALSA and i`ve tried it, and that didnt seem to work.. is there any irq settings or dma and stuff that i need to set before installing the drivers? i have an NF7-S Rev2.0 (nForce2 mobo) with soundstorm.. but with linux, i guess u can rule out the soundstorm thing..

please guide me step by step as i am a real newbie at linux.. i am using redhat 9.0.. still new i guess..

any help is appreciated..

nvidia has very good help on getting your sound to work. I currently have an nforce card, with the nvaudio drivers running on slack.
Just goto http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux.html
They'll have what you need there. Basically what your needing to do is insert the nvaudio modules into the system. Then have them inserted at load time. I can't remember the actuall steps at the moment, if you can't get it going, post again and i'll look up the readme file.

yes.. i did exactly as was written in the manual.. but still no go.. i just think that it might be some sort of irq or dma problem.. but i`m still a noob.. i dont know much about linux systems..

can you tell me in detail as to what i am to do?

this is what i get if i try to install the module for nvaudio

[root@localhost nvaudio]# insmod nvaudio
Using /lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/sound/nvaudio.o
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/sound/nvaudio.o: unresolved symbol ac97_probe_codec_R84601c2b
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/sound/nvaudio.o: unresolved symbol ac97_set_adc_rate_R5307368c
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/sound/nvaudio.o: unresolved symbol ac97_set_dac_rate_R42924aaa

i renamed the i810_audio module on purpose so that i might be able to subsitute that module with another one.. unfortunately it didnt seem to work..

*bump*

anyone?