Realtek AC97 - Compiling sound driver for install

[ianw1974]

When I installed MDK 10.0 OE on a machine I have, the sound wouldn't work. I since found that when I enable it in KDE, it errors.

 

I downloaded the drivers from the Realtek site, enabled sound within KDE.

 

The instructions then say to run the following commands:

 

./configure
make
make install
./snddevices

 

I have well over the required kernel for the driver (kernel-2.6.3-7mdk), so this is OK. The only command I can't seem to get to work is the ./configure (there is no configure file in the directory where I extracted the driver).

 

Any ideas on what I can do to configure, or would I be better updating the kernel to a later version to resolve the sound issue?

[theYinYeti]

Could you post the content of this directory then?

ls -laF

Yves.

[ianw1974]

I re-downloaded the zip file from their website, as it didn't download properly.

 

I now have all the files, and I have to jump on the computer shortly so that I can attempt to compile etc.

 

Will keep you informed of what happens next!

[ianw1974]

I can't seem to get this to work. This is what I've done so far, and now I'm stuck.

 

1. Installed kernel-source-2.6.3-7.

2. Ran ./configure from the alsa-driver-1.0.4 directory (downloaded from Realtek).

3. Ran make.

4. Ran make install.

5. Ran ./snddevices

 

The part I'm now stuck on is apparently, I have to put some lines in the /etc/modules.conf file and I have no idea as to which ones.

 

Am I better just upgrading the kernel to perhaps resolve the problem?

 

As mentioned, the sound card is a Realtek AC97, and it's on a Gigabyte system board, that has the Nvidia extensions (if that helps).

[ianw1974]

Am currently upgrading the kernel to 2.6.3-25 to see if this makes any differences.

 

The problem isn't a compilation issue anymore, but more that I just can't get the damn thing to work.

[ianw1974]

Update:

 

I updated the kernel and this didn't resolve the problem. Now running 2.6.3-25. The kernel source is also installed.

 

I then downloaded the alsa-drivers, alsa-lib and alsa-utils from the alsa website, and ran the following

 

alsa-drivers:

./configure
make
make install
./snddevices

alsa-lib:

./configure
make
make install

alsa-utils:

./configure
make
make install

 

I've rebooted many a times, and still having problems. I checked the modules.conf file that Realtek suggest modifying in /etc and it now contains the following lines:

 

alias char-major-116 snd
options snd major=116 cards_limit=1
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
options snd-intel8x0 index=o id="ICH"
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1 || :

 

I've no idea where to turn next.

[ianw1974]

This is solved now!

 

Just had to run alsaconf and then make user member of audio, and unmute sound!

Edited May 12, 2005 by ianw1974