installing a kernel module for MX300 ??

[osage]

Aureal Vortex 2 soundcard is detected by mandrake 8.1

My sound card is not supported in Mandrake 8.1, I need to download the kernel module ,which I have done, and install it, this I have no clue on how to do.

So, just how does one go about installing a kernel module ??

 

[n0cmonkey]

I remember there being instructions with that driver, but Ill try and give you some hints from memory. . . Its been a while 😛

Anyhow, figure out where your modules are installed and add modprobe to /etc/rc.local. Or /etc/modules.conf depending on if your distro has it ornot.

 

[osage]

I will give that at try tonite. When I was trying to move the files into root/dev/sound I got a message telling me I didn't have permmision to write to that dir. When I would try to extract to that file I got an error message that I didn't have enought space.

Where do I check to see the free space on the Linux partition. I should have about 4 gig for the Linux partition, I have minimal progs installed..

again thanks for any help

 

[Nothinman]

'df -h' will tell you how much space you have free.

You can't write to most system directories without being root, type 'su -' to become root.