will i have to buy a new SC for linux? i have MX300

[TheWart]

my mx300 wasn't detected/doesnt work in RH 7.2, i suppose the aureal chipset will not be supported in linux? i am impressed so far, but is there anything i can do to get this card workin, or what card do you know that works in RH wthout to much tweaking?

btw i have a Phillips AE back home in windows box, do those work?

 

[stirling]

Diamond Monster mx300?

http://www.vortexofsound.com/drivers/drivers.htm

http://sourceforge.net/projects/aureal/

You might have to recompile your kernel, though.
That probably falls under the category of "too much tweaking."

 

[TheWart]

thx for the heads-up. sourceforge may be the answer, i will have to check it out tonight.

 

[Louie1961a]

You could try another Linux distro as well. Suse for sure, and possible mandrake, allow you to install and configure the ALSA sound system as opposed to the OSS in Red Hat. I am pretty sure that ALSA will support that card. You could in theory download and install ALSA on a red hat box, but I have never been able to get it to work. It never compiles correctly, and is generally huge PIA in red hat. Probably because red hat tends to use some unusal file locations I am told.

 

[Workin']

My MX300 works fine under Linux. Didn't take any tweaking, if I recall correctly - it's been a while (running Red hat 6.2).

 

[TheWart]

hmm. i downloaded and tarred the aureal driver au88xx1.1.2.tar from sourceforge.net. however, when i go to the aureal directory just created and try to "make install" it returns errors that I can't build against the curent kernel, and my modules should never use kernel headers etc. im lost, any other ideas? i have another file i got from sourceforge, called au88xx1.1.2.tar.bz2

 

[stirling]

Check out http://www.alsa-project.org/

Maybe you can get that working.

 

[nortexoid]

mandrake 8.0 detected and set up my mx300 outta the box...no problems

i suggest a different distro.

if u want to use redhat, of which mandrake used to be part of, there's drivers for it...check the redhat driver page that tells u the ease of install, etc. for vortex sq2500/aureal audio drivers

 

[fivepesos]

i had the aureal working in redhat 7.2, i ahve to remember what i did. look in the makefile and point it to your linux src. if u didnt install src, then download and compile a new kernel or get the redhat 2.4.7 source