Turtle Beach or Monster 300mx

[Larmonster]

Very new to Linux here, and, from my experience thus far, most Linux users must be deaf. I assume that because I can't find a sound card that works with linux. I personally possess 3 different cards, there's the onboard sound card on my ak77 pro-133 MB, I also have a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz, and a Diamond Monster Sound mx300. I've actually tried 8 different sound cards, yes, 8, and nothing works with Linux. Can anyone help me out here, I know it has to be playing sound. My hope is to get the Santa Cruz or the mx300 working, they are the best cards I have(with windows :p ). I found a reference on some forum where one guy alledgedly got his Turtle Beach Santa Cruz card to work, but he went off rapidly talking about untaring this and rpming that. Meanwhile I'm standing in a cloud of confusion as I do not speak his Klingon. Anyone, of these two cards, the Turtle Beach Santa Cruz, or the Diamond Monster MX300, in plain simple easy to understand english, what do I have to do to get them to play sound? "I'm the boss. Need the info, throw me a friggen bone here." Thank you in advance.

[mdwatts]

What distro and version would that be? It does help when we try to assist you since not all distros are the same and some use different config tools for soundcards etc.

First thing to do is to ensure PnP OS is disabled in the bios. See if that helps.

[Larmonster]

Oh, sorry. I am using linux mandrake 8.2 . Yes, pnp is set to "off" in the bios.

[Harry]

To get the TBSC to work, type this command as root:

modprobe cs46xx

Simple enough? :D

[Odrorir]

Harry, what does the modprobe command do if you know the specifics, and is cs46xx the sound device address?

Trying to learn here. ;)

[Odrorir]

I am using Mandrake 8.2 also, with a TBSC card too, I also have a Hercules XL that doesnt work, but I want the SC box running first. Its detecting my card as a Cirrus logic, but I still get nho sound output. I disabled PnP aware OS in my bios and tried running modprobe which didnt seem to do anything. Any other idea's?

[2thumbs]

insmod / modprobe just insert loadable kernel modules (aka drivers). modprobe will also check what other modules might be needed (for example cs46xxx will probably also need soundcore.. so it will load it)... I think. To check if the module loaded, type lsmod and see if the module is there. ANother thing that you might want to try is turning off ALSA if that's running. You can do it via linuxconf.

For reference, I run MDK 8.2 and my SBLive! and the onboard 6-channel C-Media (cm8378 or something) work just fine.

[ 23 April 2002: Message edited by: 2thumbs ]

[slacker_x]

if you want to get the mx300 (which is aureal 8830 based I think) to work, go to http://aureal.sourceforge.net

use CVS to get the latest drivers and then read the readme