Legacy Aureal Vortex Sound Card Driver

[Squadcar7]

I'm so upset! I'm trying to get my sound card (see title) to work in Linux, so I can stop using Windows altogether. However, it just so happens that it's a makefile, and I have never had to deal with them. Has anyone used this makefile before. I got the driver from sourceforge.net, and I'm looking at the Makefile, and I have no idea what to do. I don't how to go about configuring it. I'm using Mandrake 8.1, and it's a vortex 1 or 2, I'm not sure. My processor is an AMD Athlon XP 1800, not pentium, which is the only choice I have. Also, the variables for the directories puts me in over my head. If someone could help me out with this first makefile, I'm sure I'll be able to figure it out. Does anyone have the makefile for Mandrake that they've already configured or can someone help me out?

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

What you'd do is this :

First 'cd' to the directory with the unpacked source code.

Then do (as root) :

# make install (for vortex 2)

or

# make install20 (for vortex 1)

or

# make install30 (for vortex advantage)


As long as you have the development tools installed (gcc complier, etc.) it should compile, link, and install the module .

(The Makefile does seem to update /etc/modules.conf so that may be all you need.)

However you may well not get that far with the above because it says in the 'README' file :

Note: if you get "unresolved symbol" errors during the install, rebuild your kernel with sound support (soundcore) built in (not a module).


I don't know if the standard kernels on mandrake have sound builtin or as an external module - if the latter, you'd have to compile a custom kernel first.

Oh, and presumably you know that aureal themselves went bust some time ago (

http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/q22000/chi2000407001151.htm).

Hope this helps