Slackware, Aureal, problem

[Mulchman MM]

I can't get my sound to work.

I'm using slackware, and I have an aureal vortex 2 sound card. I installed the aureal drivers and compiled them, but still no sound.

[TheGimp]

what does lsmod return?

[Mulchman MM]

Module Size Used by
via-rhine 9168 1
bsd_comp 3764 0 (unused)
PPP 20652 0 [bsd_comp]
slip 7388 0 (unused)
slhc 4504 0 [ppp slip]
lp 5924 0 (unused)
parport_pc 7396 1
parport 6952 1 [lp parport_pc]

hm, doesn't look like a sound module is loaded.

[ericb]

i use a vortex2 in slackware as well. it work wonderfully.

what i did was goto sourcforge and find the new aureal drivers, get v1.1.1 as 1.1.2 seems to be a bit flaky. they you have to do some editing of one file to make it compile (IF YOU ARE USING A 2.4 KERNEL), otherwise its ok as is.

the driver should compile and load as a module that you can see with 'lsmod'. if not post whatever error messages you get when you 'make install'

if it all works you'll have to add 'modprobe au8830' to /etc/rc.d/rc.local so that the module loads every time you boot.

hope that helps

[plasmid]

Another thought, what type of motherboard do you have? I used to have an aureal sound card untill I upgraded to an ABIT KT7, then it just made my system unstable as all hell. I called abit and they said that the Aureal chipset wont function properly with the Via kt133 chipset. Just something more to consider.

-plasmid

[Mulchman MM]

Thanks for the help. The module loads up everytime I boot now. :)

My motherboard is a 440BX or something.