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Red Hat 8.0 and a Sound Blaster Audigy

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thanatopsizer

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I just installed Red Hat 8.0 and it does detect my Sound Blaster Audigy. I have digital speakers, but by default the Audigy plays in an analog format. I checkes soundblaster.com for Lunix drivers, but they do not support it yet. Does anyone know how I can change the outpput format?
 
All you can do is wait for someone (preferably Creative) to release full featured drivers. You can email them and complain if you'd like, if more people did this I'm sure we'd have more 'official' drivers for non-Windows systems.
 
Here's the URL for creative's page with a link to the drivers:

http://opensource.creative.com/

I've verified they work for the audigy on rh7.3

My audigy works fine in 8.0, I noticed a module called audigy provided in the distro, check to see if it's loaded when you have linux running with an lsmod.

 
That rocks that Creative has an area for open source. 🙂 I'm liking RH 8.0 a lot. I've been using it as my main system for burning cds and I may go ahead and configure apache.... 😀
 
These guys provide drivers for a lot sound cards that don't provide drivers or are not supported by ASound. Their drivers though come with a $price $tag but they also provide you with the use of certian features via their drivers to things LiveDrive, etc... that also make it worth the purchase and that ASound might not provide. If go this route and you need help installing their drivers let me know I might be able to help you out. It was pretty easy for me to install their drivers on Mandrake 9.0 for my Creative SoundBlaster Live X-Gamer card with it's LiveDrive.

http://www.opensound.com/
 
The driver from http://opensource.creative.com/ (emu10k1) has the resources I need to make my audigy run properly, but I am unsure about how I need to configure it. In the readme it says:

2. Using RedHat distribution kernel sources.
Copy/link one of the config files in linux/configs/*.config
to linux/.config. The file should match your running kernel.

I have no idea what this is refering to how how I would go about doing this...🙁
 
Originally posted by: thanatopsizer
The driver from http://opensource.creative.com/ (emu10k1) has the resources I need to make my audigy run properly, but I am unsure about how I need to configure it. In the readme it says:

2. Using RedHat distribution kernel sources.
Copy/link one of the config files in linux/configs/*.config
to linux/.config. The file should match your running kernel.

I have no idea what this is refering to how how I would go about doing this...🙁
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You'll need to install the rpm called kernel-source-2.4.18-14.i386.rpm off of one of your red hat 8 cds.

The config file it is referencing will then be found in /usr/src/linux-2.4/configs (you may already have it installed if you opted for the 'install everything' method of installation)

You want to use the config file in that directory which pertains to your architecture.
 
Thanks alot for all your help, but it never seems to end for me... I got it to compile but when I log in as root and type make install I get another error...

ac97_codec.o: Device or resource busy
make: *** [install] Error 1

any ideas?
 
Originally posted by: thanatopsizer
Thanks alot for all your help, but it never seems to end for me... I got it to compile but when I log in as root and type make install I get another error...

ac97_codec.o: Device or resource busy
make: *** [install] Error 1

any ideas?
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Are you sure your audigy isn't already working? Do you see modules such as a ac97_codec, audigy, sound, or soundcore listed when you do an 'lsmod' at the command line?
 
that's just it, the audigy is working... I think. I need it to turn on the digital output because I have digital speakers. Red Hat did infact detect it upon the instillation of Red Hat, but anywhere I look there are no visible settings to change the output format, but ia (obviously) not very familiar with linux. btw, thankyou for all your help🙂
 
The analog output on the fromt panel works, but that's it. I have followed the steps in the emu readme to change the settings from analoug to digital, but it still is not working. Tere is a configuration file that has very simple yes/no type settings which you can modify. Then you place a link to it in your /etc/modules.conf file. I have done all of this and I know the driver is installed, but there is still no digital output. If anyone has any ideas I'm all ears.
 
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