Re: Newbie sound help
peter, step 1 is to figure out which driver you need. here are various
things you can do to that end:
a. go to deja.com's power search and do a search on "linux crystal sound"
and see what turns up.
b. go to /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound and do a grep "Crystal" *.
c. install the 4Front OSS demo, let it detect your soundcard. see what it
says. your crystal could be a repackaging of a more known chipset.
once you figure out the driver, you may or may not need to recompile the
kernel. if your sound card is "crystal.o", then all you need to do is:
locate crystal.o
if it's there, you can modprobe -a /the/crystal.o/path/crystal.o and place
the module name in /etc/modules so it gets loaded at boot.
if it's not there, you can either compile the kernel or just the module
itself.
btw, if you continue to have trouble, do look at 4front's OSS sound driver.
it's commercial, but is very cheap (like 10 or 20 bucks). they did an
_excellent_ job, and are very good about getting back to you within a few
hours after emailing them a question. they provide a good service and are
an excellent example of how commercial products can exist in an open source
world. i used them for a long time before figuring out all this stuff on my
own. :)
pete
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I've got my new potato system up and running, Gnome works fine and it
> all looks great! Haven't fired up NT on my home box for 3 whole days!
>
> I'm starting to feel braver now, and guess it's time to start to look
> at sound. From what I've been able to find browsing the web, and from
> reading various magazines, I will need to re-compile my kernel before
> I can use sound (my Xpert7 machine uses an on-board Crystal chipset).
>
> Could someone please point me at a newbie-oriented site that takes me
> through the steps in language that even I could understand?
>
> T.I.A.
>
> --
> Best regards,
>
> Peter Hugosson-Miller
> "To every rule there is an exception, and vice versa."
>
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