Turtle Beach Santa Cruz Only two Channel And Crackly

[phext]

Hello, I was wondering if anyone has gotten 4 channel sound from the TBSC. I have heard a bit about the oss driver, but it's twenty bucks, so I would like to avoid it if I can. Is there another way? Also my sound is very crackly when playing mp3s and events in gnome, actually just about everything. Any ideas?

[hard candy]

I have a Santa Cruz with 5.1 channel sound, due to the alsa driver,
. Your distro should have packages available for the alsa driver- its name is "cs46xx" (the module that gets loaded when the kernel is booted).
Some other things you will need for the 2.4 kernel:
alsautils, alsa tools, alsamixer. Read up on it at site and search some of the posts here.
alsa (http://www.alsa-project.org/)

[phext]

I have got
alsa-driver-0.9.8-1.fr.i386.rpm
alsa-lib-0.9.8-1.fr.i386.rpm
and
alsa-utils-0.9.8-1.fr.i386.rpm
and have installed them all. I also need the kernel module, but the closest one to my kernel version (2.4.20-28.9) is kernel-module-alsa-0.9.8-1.fr_2.4.20_20.9.athlon.rpm, but it is not the exact version right, so it won't work? Can I rebuild it with rpmbuild --rebuild to make a version that's the same as my kernel version?

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by phext
Can I rebuild it with rpmbuild --rebuild to make a version that's the same as my kernel version?

If you have the source rpm (src.rpm) package.

[phext]

I can't seem to find kernel-module-alsa-0.9.8-1.fr_2.4.20_20.9.athlon.src.rpm only kernel-module-alsa-0.9.8-1.fr_2.4.20_20.9.athlon.rpm. It doesn't appear that there is a source rpm for it and that is what I don't understand.

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by phext
I can't seem to find kernel-module-alsa-0.9.8-1.fr_2.4.20_20.9.athlon.src.rpm only kernel-module-alsa-0.9.8-1.fr_2.4.20_20.9.athlon.rpm. It doesn't appear that there is a source rpm for it and that is what I don't understand.

Where are you looking for the rpm packages? On your distros source rpm cd's, ftp download servers, rpmfind.net ?

[phext]

I have been looking on freshrpms.net and I have been diong google searches as well and there appears to be nothing.

[mdwatts]

Does your distro have the src.rpm's available on their ftp servers? Most do.

[phext]

I think I found some info on freshrpms I didn't notice "Note about the kernel drivers : You will need a "kernel-module-alsa" package that was compiled for your kernel (same version and architecture). You can easily recognize a matching "kernel-module-alsa" package from its name, e.g. "kernel-smp-module-alsa-0.9.3-1.fr_2.4.20_1.athlon.rpm" will work for the SMP 2.4.20-1 athlon kernel. If you do not find a matching package, recompile the source "alsa-driver" rpm while running the kernel you intend to use ALSA with, having the corresponding "kernel-source" package installed and using "--target <arch>" to choose the correct architecture ("i686" for instance). Once this is done, simply install the resulting "kernel-module-alsa" binary rpm with "rpm -ivh". Note that if you do not specify the --target option, the default on x86 will be to recompile for the i386 kernel, which is probably not what you want. For more advanced rebuild options, see further below." I am gonna try this, it seems that it should do it.