Aureal AC97 woes

[nhiebert]

I can't get my AC97 on-board sound card to work. I have a zip of .gz files including the drivers for my particular distro (RH7.1). I'm pretty much a complete neophyte and have yet to successfully install any software from a tarball format. Can anyone direct me to a place that can tell me how to do this?

[crazyox2]

Is it a .tar.gz file? If so, tar xzvf "file name" will do the trick to unpack those drives in your .gz file.

If it isn't a tar.gz file, gunzip will do the trick.

I bet you are looking more for help in installing those drivers though, right?

[nhiebert]

My sound is working.

I don't quite no how, but here is what I did. I managed to spill out all the contents of my .gz file and then tried to do that whole make/configure thing, to no avail. Then I decided to read a file called vinstall. It was the source code for something or other and all it really did was recopy files to various locations and insmod them or something, so I just did everything that the code was supposed to do manually. It worked. I have sound now. I'm quite impressed with this whole Linux thing so far.

[Derango]

Originally posted by nhiebert:
<STRONG>My sound is working.

I don't quite no how, but here is what I did. I managed to spill out all the contents of my .gz file and then tried to do that whole make/configure thing, to no avail. Then I decided to read a file called vinstall. It was the source code for something or other and all it really did was recopy files to various locations and insmod them or something, so I just did everything that the code was supposed to do manually. It worked. I have sound now. I'm quite impressed with this whole Linux thing so far.</STRONG>

hehe...for future reference, you were probably suposed to run that vinstall file as a program.

./vinstall

is the command that would run it. (Assuming you were located in the directory where vinstall is located.

[Cuthbert]

Its also a good idea to read the readme files that unpack with everything else.