Audio card recommendations

[Mip]

Hey Gang,

I can't believe a search didn't pull up this thread but....

I can't get my Turtle Beach Montego II sound card to work in Mandrake 8.2 - though I have had it working in 7.2 and 8.0. The chip is a 8830 (vortex?).

If I can't get it working, maybe it's time to buy a new one. My machine is aging - PII 450 w/384 mb ram, but I don't play games with it anyway. I just want to listen to music while I work, record from my minidisk recorder (a sharp mt 770 - non-net version).

Any recommendations? Inexpensive is good (<$40).

Thanks in advance,

M

[pbharris]

sound blaster live value.

[cj171]

dude, just go to freshmeat.net and search for aureal and ull get the drivers for it! tis simple...i got mine working and it works pretty damn well!
-CJ

[Mip]

Cool! Well, I'd love to get it to work. Maybe you can help.

I downloaded the aureal driver for linux au88xx.1.1.2

I I tarred it tar xzvf, checked over the Makefile (no changes needed), and ran Make install. Here are the errors I received. For what it's worth, I already verified that the kernel source was installed.

[Mip]

Errors:

mv -f /etc/modules.conf /etc/modules.conf.old
gawk -f mod_conf /etc/modules.conf.old > /etc/modules.conf
echo "alias sound au8830" >> /etc/modules.conf
echo "alias midi au8830" >> /etc/modules.conf
mkdir -p /lib/modules/2.4.18-6mdk/misc
cp -f au8830.o /lib/modules/2.4.18-6mdk/misc
/sbin/depmod -a
/sbin/rmmod au8830
rmmod: module au8830 is not loaded
make: [install] Error 1 (ignored)
/sbin/modprobe au8830
Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.18-6mdk/misc/au8830.o will taint the kernel: n
o license
/lib/modules/2.4.18-6mdk/misc/au8830.o: init_module: No such device
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including inva
lid IO or IRQ parameters
modprobe: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.18-6mdk/misc/au8830.o failed
modprobe: insmod au8830 failed
make: [install] Error 255 (ignored)

Thanks for any light you can shed on this.

M

[pbharris]

see the thread about the audigy - there were many errors like the ones you mention and it was finnalt solved when the system headers were linked to the kernel headers and properly matched.

http://www.linuxjunior.org/yabbse/in...;threadid=4484

[Mip]

Awesome!! This looks promising. I did the check to see if the kernel headers were there (rpm -q glibc-kernheaders), and got the message that they were not installed.

I was just about to:

mv /usr/include/linux old_linux_headers
then do a
ln -s ../src/linux/include/linux/ linux

as per the post, but wasn't sure where I should be when I was doing that stuff.

After I do that, should I then rerun the Make install part of my installation, or should I back up further and tar the stuff again (and start from scratch)?

BTW, what are kernel headers - are they pieces of info about kernel parts or something?

Thanks a bunch in advance. I'd love to get this card working again!

M

[cj171]

well, what i do since mine is a auxx20, i do make install20 and since urs is a 30, u should just be able to get it to work by doing make install30! that is after u make sure ur using the right kernel headers...
-CJ

[pbharris]

hi mip,


[quote author=Mip link=board=3;threadid=4512;start=0#45182 date=1028926932]
Awesome!! This looks promising. I did the check to see if the kernel headers were there (rpm -q glibc-kernheaders), and got the message that they were not installed.

I was just about to:

mv /usr/include/linux old_linux_headers
then do a
ln -s ../src/linux/include/linux/ linux

as per the post, but wasn't sure where I should be when I was doing that stuff.
[/quote]
doing that in /usr/include would be a good place

BTW, what are kernel headers - are they pieces of info about kernel parts or something?

Thanks a bunch in advance. I'd love to get this card working again!

M

kernel headers provide a bunch of info for the functions getting compiled. C files that have a #<include linux/something.h> get the info from /usr/include/linux

hth

[Mip]

I feel like a dope!

rpm -q glibc-kernelheaders
returns
package glibc-kernheaders is not installed

Where are these? I can't find them using the package manager with Mandrake 8.2

How can I install these?

Thanks,

M