Topic: VIA82C686 Sound Card

[Mike]

I've been trying to install the built-in sound card in a Epox 8K7A motherboard with no luck at all... has anyone ever got one of these sound cards to work under E-Smith 4.12 ??  Everything I've tried so far points me to recompiling the kernel with sound support... if that's what needs to be done... is there an E-smith specific howto for recompiling the kernel?

Please let me know if you can help me... thank you

[Lotas T Smartman]

I have one of these built in to my mother board. havent run E-smith on it. I know it works on linux. You could try Via's website. They have pre compiled binaries for differnet Linux kernels and Distros. Your best bet is to look for a Driver for Redhat 7.0. This is what E-Smith is based on.
Lotas T Smartman
www.lotas-smartman.net

[Mike]

Thanks for the prompt reply...
I've already tried installing pre-compiled binaries for this sound card, but when I do the insmod it gives me error messages... when I look up what the error messages mean... the solution is always recompiling the kernel with sound support... I'm not sure how to do this on E-smith, and what it would affect...

[Lotas T Smartman]

Im not shure. If you thin about it, E-smith is set up as a server. It may not have sound suport! Not shure how to hel you! sorry. Just an idea.

[Robert Heaton]

Hi,

I have had a Sound Blaster PCI128 working in e-smith,

From what i recall I installed the following packages from a Red Hat 7 cd. (Or you can get them from RPMFIND.NET

sndconfig-0.57-2 (although I can't remember if there were any dependencies) then just run sndconfig at the prompt.

You could also try http://www.opensound.com/ for sound drivers, although registration costs $30 I think. (There is a time restricted demo available)


Hope this helps,

Rob.