7VAXP Ultra - KT400 MD8.2 and No Sound

[AsifIcare]

Hi

I am a newbie at this but am willing to learn. I went and looked at every page in this forum and read every post that mentioned sound, but I cannot find anything that helps. That does not mean it is not there, just maybe I cannot recognise it.

OK, I have just installed mandrake 8.2 with no probs and am surfing here now. The only issue I cannot resolve is audio, these are my specs:

Gigabyte 7VAXP Ultra MB with raid, 5-1 audio etc etc
K7 Triton 400 chipset
AMD XP 2200+

The installer proggy did not recognise my on board audio, but in Windows it is a {Realtek AC97 audio driver}. Even if I run harddrake, it thinks a bit, but finds nothing. I have done a google search and come up with millions of things, but have no clue as to which one I need.

So, my question is, what do I need to do to find out what driver is needed to get audio to work? I have tried the manufacturers sites or resellers, but I am getting confused. If someone could explain how to find what I need, then I should be able to go from there(fingers crossed), maybe, probably, if not I will ask, lol. Then I can start learning in earnest.

Cheers
Asif

[Micro Bean]

You have to get sound driver for Linux based OS heres that link

Realtek ALC650 codec download for the Linux based Hope that works

[squeech]

If harddrake isn't even detecting it as a device, then it may be disable in the BIOS. You may need to enable the onboard audio device in Advanced Chipset Features first.

Then install the driver that Bean listed

BTW, WELCOME TO TECHIMO!!

[AsifIcare]

Hi

Thanks Micro Bean for the quick response. I think that is exactly what I am looking for, I am downloading now. Even though I picked the Linux version from that page, it is a ZIP file? Should that not be tar.gz or an rpm? Anyway I have it now and I will see what happens.

Sqeech, that is something I did not know I had to do. I mean, the sound part works perfectly when in 98SE, so I never considered there could be a seperate part of the BIOS for Linux, I will look next time I reboot.

Thanks for your help, I may be back, lol. And thanks for the welcome, I hope to spend some time here learning and maybe helping at some stage.

cheers
Asif

*modified* Nope, it does not like the zip file, should I just search for the same file but ending in tar.gz?

[Micro Bean]

Okay Ive searched and searched but this is all I can think of what you can do is copy that file and put it on a floppy or a CD-r and take it to a windows based system and have it unzipped. Unless someone else can find it. Ill let you know..

By the way does anyone know what Operating System is OS/2?

Maybe that one you can try Not sure I would wait until someone tells ya I never heard of OS/2 which is weird for me its and EXE file

[AsifIcare]

Hey, MicroBean, no probs m8. I am on a dual boot system(cannot get rid of bills **** until I sort out Linux). I can unzip, and bring it over to linux, I was just unsure whether it would be the right thing inside.

How about I go and do that now and if you happen to see this before I am back, maybe you could tell me what I am supposed to find in a file type, ie what extension is it for a driver file?

Back in 10
Cheers
Asif

[Micro Bean]

its should be an EXE file for it or more likely setup or install good luck

[AsifIcare]

Hi again, I am trapped in windows at the moment. It turns out I cannot copy that file I downloaded to floppy, it is too big, the mongral. Then the system froze. I am now downloading again in windows and when it is unzipped, hopefully it will be smaller than 1.4m, otherwise I can burn it. But, will the Linux language understand a fat32 cd? Hmm, I will try anyway.

btw, O/S2 is for apple MACS.

cheers
Asif

[AsifIcare]

Hi again

A small bit of success, I got the file you mentioned and when the file is unzipped, it has a file called
alc.tar.bz2 in it, also a
readme.txt file and a
modules.conf file.

The text file says the following:

The source code copy from www.alsa-project.org. ver:A1.8
Linux Source Code for ALC audio codec

Installation:
This Source Code is from www.alsa-project.org.
For driver installation, please follow below steps.

Step 1. Unzip source code
tar xfvj alcsound.tar.bz2

Step 2. Turn on sound support (soundcore module)

Step 3. Complied source code
a. ./Configure
b. make install
c. ./snddevices

Step 4. Edit your /etc/modules.conf or conf.modules depending on the Distribution
(Please refer to the attached modules.conf)

Step 5. reboot your machine

Note: 1. The most detail information, can refer the INSTALL file in the alcsound.tar.bz2.
2. Kernel Version must be 2.2.14 or later.
3. All mixer channels are muted by default. You must use a native
or OSS mixer program to unmute appropriate channels.
4. If can not compile the source code, try to rename the /usr/src/linux-2.x -> /usr/src/linux.
5. The driver added to support the SPDIF functoin. ::
--------------------------------------------------------------
In step one, I dont have the file
alcsound.tar.bz2
they mention to unpack, I have the one I mentioned at the top
alc.tar.bz2

I think I must be missing a big point here, but if I can get over this first hurdle, I will be on the way. I had unpacked everything with WinRar into a folder and burnt the whole lot and had a look in Linux. There was files with GEARS(executebles I think) but no install sound.exe or rpm. I did a search and it could not find alcsound* where * is a wildcard. It is quite likely I have the wrong file but each of the 3 mirrors from the link you gave me, puts out the same zip file?

Can you tell me what I have done wrong please?

Thanks
Asif

[nukes]

btw, O/S2 is for apple MACS.

No it isn't, it was for PCs. Made by IBM.
The file you download will be what's called a 'kernel module' it is inserted using insmod. You must do this as root.
ark for KDE can open zip files if you click on them. Assumng you're using KDE. No need to boot into windows. or if you're on the command line, use "unzip"
Linux can read 'fat32' cds, as they are not actually fat32, but an independant standard filesystem called ISO9660. MS added joilet extensions to this so it supported a greater depth of directories and filenames, but Linux can read that fine too.