Installing Drivers

**ChriSTP** · 07-26-2004

Well i just found out that my sound doesnt work very well (after having xmms on for an hour lol)... so i did the alsaconf command but i still didnt get any sound... so i searched on google for the linux driver for my sound card and found it and downloaded it and now the problem is that i dont know how to install drivers on linux... so if anyone can just give me some steps as to how to install it id be very greatfull....

thx in advance for anything in advance

- ChriSTP

**Giro** · 07-26-2004

Not being rude but read the install documents to be sure what you need to do it might just be a case of building it but i couldnt say since I dont even know what soundcard it is.

**ChriSTP** · 07-26-2004

oh well that really wasnt rude and my card is a Creative Soundblaster Live! i think... but the driver for it is the 'Emu10k1' and i read the readme that came with it (didnt know it was like an archive file lol) and it said for requirements i needed this:

Requirements
------------
- The kernel must be compiled:
- With loadable modules support (CONFIG_MODULES = y)
- With soundcard support (CONFIG_SOUND = y/m)
- Without any integrated emu10k1 soundcard drivers (CONFIG_SOUND_EMU10K1 = m/n)
- "PnP-compatible OS installed" option in BIOS must be disabled
- Recommended system configuration: Min. 100 MHz Pentium-class w/ 32 MB RAM
- Kernel headers matching the kernel for which you are compiling the
driver.

- For sequencer support, sound.o is required (CONFIG_SOUND_OSS= y/m)

well since im stilla bit new to linux im not really sure how to conpile the kernel and i dont wanna mess anything up so thats why i asked here... but i still tried to do the things that it said for the installation instructions witch said to as root type 'make install' but then i get a bash message saying that 'make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop.'

sry for me being a bit incomplete in my discription in the post above.

- ChriSTP

**Giro** · 07-26-2004

Just didnt want it to sound like RTFM

Post whats in /usr/src you might have your kernels source in there if not you will need to compile one.

**ChriSTP** · 07-26-2004

lol... well alright i got 4 folders in usr/src named:

linux (it just points to the folder below...)
linux - 2.4.26
rpm
speakup - 2.4.26

i searched in linux - 2.4.26 but im not really sure what the name of the source file would be so yeah... here are the folders that are in this folder just incase

arch, crypto, Documentation, drivers, fs, include, init, ipc, kernel, lib, mm, net, and scripts

thats whats in there... if i need to compile a new one then how would i do that? you can direct me to a link if you want to save you the trouble of typing much.. or ill look later today (its 2:50 am already here lol)... but thx alot for the help so far Giro

**Giro** · 07-26-2004

The important one is the symlink /usr/src/linux that is your kernel source so all you should need to do is compile the module using the install instructions then load it.

**ChriSTP** · 07-27-2004

well call me a linux newbie or what you want but for some reason i wasnt able to figure it out lol... so i searched google for a while a found a page that showeb me how to install the driver for my sound card and it shows it in very easy to follow steps but i still wasnt able to get it to work... heres the page of what i was following...

http://www.justlinux.com/nhf/Soundcards

i got through the 'Getting the Driver' but on the first step of 'Unconpressing and Conpiling' i get stuck...

this is what my terminal window looks like to where i cant go on...

root@darkstar:~# cd
root@darkstar:~# mkdir sblive
root@darkstar:~# cd sblive
root@darkstar:~/sblive# konqueror http://sourceforge.net/projects/emu10k1
root@darkstar:~/sblive# gunzip emu10k1-v0.20a.tar.bz2
gunzip: emu10k1-v0.20a.tar.bz2: unknown suffix -- ignored
root@darkstar:~/sblive# tar -xvf emu10k1-v0.20a.tar.bz2
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
tar: Read 9520 bytes from emu10k1-v0.20a.tar.bz2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
root@darkstar:~/sblive# cd emu10k1
-bash: cd: emu10k1: No such file or directory

i dont see anything that i am doing wrong... so what could be the problem? thx for any help on this...

and im using:
Distro: Slackware Linux 10.0
Soundcard: Soundblaster Live! EMU10k1

incase you need to know...

- ChriSTP

**Giro** · 07-27-2004

Do

Code:

tar jxvpf <filename>

not gunzip its in bzip2 format not gzip.

**ChriSTP** · 07-27-2004

so i would type this instead?

root@darkstar:~/sblive# bzip2 emu10k1-v0.20a.tar.bz2

or do i need to do something diffrent to do this?

- ChriSTP

**Giro** · 07-27-2004

Since its also a tarball hence the .tar.bz2 it is quicker just to use tar like so

Code:

tar jxvpf emu10k1-v0.20a.tar.bz2

The jxvpf part are the switches. The j tells tar to uncompress using bzip2, x is use to extract the tar file v is verbouse output and p is peserve file pemissions.
Or you can do it the slow way like so first uncompressing the tar file using bzip2 with the -d switch

Code:

bzip2 -d emu10k1-v0.20a.tar.bz2

Then untar the tarball like so

Code:

tar xfp emu10k1-v0.20a.tar

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