stupid sodding crappy OS, why can't they make bloody installers :angry:

IsNoGood · 10-13-2003, 06:05 AM

What does insmod or modprobe nvaudio say?

sturreal · 10-13-2003, 06:10 AM

something about not having the correct parameters or configuration

IsNoGood · 10-13-2003, 06:24 AM

Something ain't gonna cut it.You'll need to fix 'something'.Or post it.

dalek · 10-13-2003, 06:24 AM

He started two new threads. I can't get the stupid search thing so I can put a link. It says no matches. I saw the links you silly puter. It's to late for this crap.

I'll find it and poke it in the puters eye. May find a few other places to poke it too.

I feel a rant coming here.

sturreal · 10-13-2003, 06:30 AM

eh?????

ah well i think i'll just have to keep battling with this damned OS until it works, i have something to try from a nice guy on rage3d.com

but i still don't think its gonna solve me SPDIF issues but i think it will sort my Radeon out.

dalek · 10-13-2003, 06:31 AM

I finally got it to work. See puter. It was there. Silly brat.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=101574
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=101161

There you go.

That rant is starting to fade now.

sturreal · 10-13-2003, 06:45 AM

eh? two? i only remember posting one of those

how strange, ahh those were went i knew fsck all

i'm much more enlightened about its workings but i still cant get me drivers working :S

I'm sorry i'm being a pain but u have no idea how many hours of anoyance this is causing me, all i ask for is working sound and ati drivers is it really too much to ask its not like i'm asking for the moon on a stick

IsNoGood · 10-13-2003, 07:28 AM

I don't know the first thing about rpm's.I'd get the source for the drivers and install those - at least you'll get some error messages that make sense if they fail to compile but you could open up a whole new can of worms there about missing compilers and stuff.

sturreal · 10-13-2003, 09:51 AM

well i was building the source rpm, you reckon i should use the tarball?

IsNoGood · 10-13-2003, 10:34 AM

Thats just my bad - I don't really know a lot about rpm's.What I do know is that they give you either cryptic error messages or none at all and still don't work like right now.If you install a tarball you normalllly get at least a error message that makes sense (well most of the time anyway).

sturreal · 10-13-2003, 10:39 AM

right ok i'll use those. I have to say for an installer format its really not very handy as it doesn't tell u where its going where its been or what its done or whether its finished or not, hence my comment about installers easlier :P

Linux needs a proper executable installer format, similar to the msi on windows and has all the features of the windows installer

jailbait · 10-13-2003, 03:19 PM

" you reckon i should use the tarball?"

One option is to use checkinstall to create a rpm from the tarball. The procedure is
./configure
make
checkinstall

http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/index.php

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IsNoGood · 10-14-2003, 04:38 AM

Well - actually you'll know a lot more about what is getting installed where when you compile from source then you'd know when you install a M$ app.Of course installing from source is not everybodys cup of tea but it does have advantages.

sturreal · 10-14-2003, 04:44 AM

well i have the ATi drivers working with full hardware acceleration

but i'm still missing SPDIF sound

i've found ALSA drivers and an intel8x0.c with nforce spdif output.
so i downloaded the CVS snapshot and i'll see if i can install it tonight

IsNoGood · 10-14-2003, 04:57 AM

Have a look at the gentoo howto for alsa installation.Of course the way you'll build it is different but the configuration part is very good.
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml