On Tuesday 04 February 2003 12:42 am, Royke wrote:
> Have you try ALSA Drivers ?
> The good start how to install is from : www.justlinux.com (formerly :
> www.linuxnewbie.org)
> or directly from the alsa site at :  www.alsa-project.org.
>
> Hope this help ..
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Indee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 12:00 PM
> Subject: Re: [newbie] My sound card doesn't work!!
>
> > i had the card since 2 years ago..
> > i was using windows OS, and the sound card worked well ...
> >
> > the drivers that i tried to install was from sourceforge.net.
> > and  still didn't work at all...
> >
> > :(
> >
> > indee
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Terry Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "Indee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 9:15 AM
> > Subject: Re: [newbie] My sound card doesn't work!!
> >
> > > I think you have an Aureal sound card (or chip). That my be problematic
> > > for you. ASFAIK the company went out of business some years ago. Their
> > > drivers were propietary and ran only under windows. Some folks were
> > > working on reverse engineering drivers but the project was/is
> > > incomplete. Check out sourceforge.net.
> > >
> > > Have you had the card for a while?
> > >
> > > Terry Smith
> > > Cape Cod USA
> > >
> > > On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 21:09, Indee wrote:
> > > > Hi all...
> > > >
> > > > I'm newbie in Linux, I've installed Mandrake 9.0 and everything seem
>
> OK,
>
> > but
> >
> > > > i had a problem on my Aureal AU8820 Sound card. It didn't work!!, and
> >
> > When I
> >
> > > > try to install the drivers, I get this:
> > > >
> > > > make install20
> > > > make install AUCHIP=AU8820
> > > > make[1]: Entering directory `/home/christopher/aureal'
> > > > mv -f /etc/modules.conf /etc/modules.conf.old
> > > > gawk -f mod_conf /etc/modules.conf.old > /etc/modules.conf
> > > > echo "alias sound au8820" >> /etc/modules.conf
> > > > echo "alias midi au8820" >> /etc/modules.conf
> > > > mkdir -p /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/misc
> > > > cp -f au8820.o /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/misc
> > > > /sbin/depmod -a
> > > > /sbin/rmmod au8820
> > > > rmmod: module au8820 is not loaded
> > > > make[1]: [install] Error 1 (ignored)
> > > > /sbin/modprobe au8820
> > > > Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/misc/au8820.o will taint
>
> the
>
> > > > kernel: no license
> > > > See http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted for information about
> >
> > tainted
> >
> > > > modules
> > > > /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/misc/au8820.o: init_module: No such device
> > > > Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters,
> >
> > including
> >
> > > > invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
> > > > You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
> > > > modprobe: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/misc/au8820.o failed
> > > > modprobe: insmod au8820 failed
> > > > make[1]: [install] Error 255 (ignored)
> > > > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/tmp/aureal'
> > > >
> > > > Can anyone help explain this? I'm really newbie in Linux..
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > thanks in advance
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Indra.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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OK

aureal sound cards had extensive software drivers.  Aureal is out of business 
and the linux driver they wrote, which you found on sourceforge is several 
years old.  The wrapper (that part of it that is open-source) has been kept 
updated but it must be compiled for the kernel it will work with.  
Recompiling the kernel is NOT complicated.  There is a step-by-step in the 
Mandrake reference manual.

NO linux distribution includes that aureal driver because it is not free 
software (source code is not provided, and there is no license to distribute 
it).  

if your Aureal sound card is from DELL, just plain forget ever having it work 
under linux.  Even the standard windows drivers will not work because the 
card was made especially for DELL by Aureal to their specifications and only 
the DELL windows driver wirll work.

Civileme


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