AC97 SOUND DRIVER for Fedora Core 4--PLEASE HELP

**Linux1245** · 01-07-2006

hello, i have Fedora Core 4

i am having trouble installing a driver for my audio. when i open the driver in terminal, it comes up with an error that says "Kernel source could not be found on your system. Please install the kernel source and try again." and then it says "locations searched for kernel sources:
/usr/src/linux-2.4
/usr/src/linux
/usr/src/2.6.14-1.1653_FC4

i downloaded the driver from: http://developer.intel.com/design/motherbd/linux/ under the Red hat 9 list and i downloaded the Audio: AC97 one.

If you could please respond that would be a great help. thank you so much.

~Linux1245

**deltaflyer** · 01-07-2006

do you have the kernel sources installed ? if not, install them from your install cd

andy

**Linux1245** · 01-07-2006

i downloaded kernel sources from: http://www.kernel.org/. I downloaded the link at the top--2.6.15 NOT the snapshot one.

Is that the kernel sources you're talking about?
If so where do i put them?

thanks so much for the help

**deltaflyer** · 01-07-2006

use the sources on your installation cd's.

andy

**Linux1245** · 01-07-2006

does that mean that i will have to reinstall linux?

or will it say something like install kernel?

thanks again

**bryansmith** · 01-07-2006

According to the Fedora website, you can get the kernel sources easily by doing (as root):

Code:

up2date --get-source kernel

BTW, have you tried running alsaconf and configuring your sound card that way? Try (as root):

Code:

/sbin/alsaconf

and then doing

Code:

/sbin/alsamixer

to turn all the volumes up. Lastly, do

Code:

/sbin/alsactl store

to save the settings.

Bryan

**Linux1245** · 01-07-2006

when i type the code you said for up2date it came up with an error:
"An error has occured:
yum.Errors.RepoError"

when i tried the alsaconf it said "No such file or directory" in the sbin
i looked for it and i couldn't find it in there either

anything else i can try or is there somewhere else i should look for the alsaconf?

thanks

**Linux1245** · 01-08-2006

any other things i can try?

**bryansmith** · 01-08-2006

Try (as root):

Code:

yum install kernel-source

As for the soundcard, try using system-config-soundcard instead.

Bryan

**Linux1245** · 01-08-2006

i tried the up2date and it worked but the error still comes up
and i don't know what u mean by system-config-soundcard, i just got linux a while ago

should i look for a different driver?

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