Linux Sound on MSI K7T266 PRO2 mobo?

[frostie]

Hi,

Is there anyone out there using the MSI K7T266 Pro2 mobo with linux? I am using the onboard sound. Linux tells me that my sound card doesn't work or that it doesn't find a sound card. I don't really remember. (sorry)

My question is, I found a folder called linux on my mobo CD. Its at \sound\via\vt8233\linux.
There are a few other folders that also include linux on the disc but I got the via drivers to work on Win2K so I presume that it is the sound chipset on my mobo.

The folder contains folders like redhat, caldera and such. when I go into the redhat directory, it has version numbers and in version 7.0, the file is 74audio.rht70.gz

Could someone please teach me how I can go about installing this as my sound driver in linux?

Thanks

 

[mcveigh]

here's a bump for ya frostie, as I would like to know this one also

 

[frostie]

^^^
Anyone? Please...

 

[n0cmonkey]

Check your custom kernel config to see if you included the correct module.

 

[flippinfleck]

<< ...it has version numbers and in version 7.0, the file is 74audio.rht70.gz ... >>

Assuming that you are using RH 7.0, this would be the correct driver.

That file is a compressed file, use tar to decompress it.

Make a directory in your home folder mkdir /home/yourname/sound and then cd into that folder.

Copy that file there cp /path/to/74audio.rht70.gz /home/yourname/sound
and decompress it there tar zxvf 74audio.rht70.gz(or whatever the filename is).

Now do an ls and check to see if there is an rpm somewhere in there. If there is, you're in luck!

You may need to be root or have root access (su) to install an RPM, but that should be easy if it's your system. I'm assuming that you are using X, and if you are then you should be able to right/left click on the RPM that you just decompressed and select install.

If there isn't an RPM, I'm not sure how to install the drivers. But there *should* be a readme file included.

Good luck!