K7S5A (SiS 7012) Audio and Mandrake

[Colt45]

Hi, I've installed Mandrake 8.2, and its been great so far, except i cant seem to get the audio to work.

I know there must be a driver for this somewhere, as the K7S5A is fairly common.
IIRC, there are two different onboard audio chipsets for this board. I believe one is a realmedia something or other,
and the other is SiS 7012 (this is the one i have).

In HardDrake under "unknown" there is a "SiS Unknown ID=xxxx7012" so i figure that is the chip, being detected, but no driver available.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

 

[aircooled]

^Bump for ya...

I am having the exact same problem. I installed Mandrake 8.2 and everthing (including the on-board ethernet) was detected except the audio. I have the same SiS 7012 audio chipset.

 

[skriefal]

A quick Google search found this...

Also, the latest beta version (0.9.0 beta 12) of the ALSA drivers (here) include an updated i810 audio driver with support for the SIS7012.

 

[Colt45]

I tried to install the ALSA stuff (libs, driver, tools, etc.) but when im configuring it, it says:



[mark@localhost alsa-driver-0.9.0beta12]$ ./configure
loading cache ./config.cache
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH

what can i do to fix this? CC is the C compiler right? im kind of a n00b when it comes to linux.

thanks again

 

[skriefal]

It seems that you don't have gcc installed. The ALSA drivers are distributed as source code, and you must compile them before installation. Without a compiler you can't do that.

Check your Mandrake CDs for the following packages, and install them:

gcc3.0-3.0.4-2mdk.i586.rpm
gcc3.0-c++-3.0.4-2mdk.i586.rpm
gcc3.0-cpp-3.0.4-2mdk.i586.rpm
libgcc3.0-3.0.4-2mdk.i586.rpm
libstdc++3.0-3.0.4-2mdk.i586.rpm

And then try installing the ALSA drivers again.

 

[Colt45]

man i suck to much for this

to bad i couldnt just install a binary or something.

maybe i'll have to go without sound.. i dont want to screw it up