Sound Card Problem

[LordWiccara]

Hello everybody, I know that this is an extremely ignorant question, but I'm sick of trying to figure it out:

I have a Aureal Vortex: Aztech with the 8820 chipset.  I found some drivers online, and they gave me instructions.  I tried it, and it did not work.  Heres what it would say:

[mike@pcp03617860pcs mike]$ cd aureal
[mike@pcp03617860pcs aureal]$ su
Password:
[root@pcp03617860pcs aureal]# make install20
make install AUCHIP=AU8820
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/mike/aureal'
cc -D__KERNEL__  -DMODULE -DAU8820 -mpentium  -O6 -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall -pipe -I/usr/src/linux/include   -c -o au_audio.o au_audio.c
make[1]: cc: Command not found
make[1]: *** [au_audio.o] Error 127
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mike/aureal'
make: *** [install20] Error 2
[root@pcp03617860pcs aureal]#

It will not install, and i cannot figure out what to do.  Thanks for your help/

[flap]

Do you have gcc installed?
Type 'gcc'. if you get an error, you'll need to install it.

[LordWiccara]

[mike@pcp03617860pcs mike]$ gcc
bash: gcc: command not found
[mike@pcp03617860pcs mike]$

i dont think so. ill install it and try again, thanks

[LordWiccara]

Ok, I tried to instal the development tools to put GCC on my computer, and it gave me another error:

Packages Not Found

The following packages could not be found on your system.  Installation cannot continue until they are installed.
Unlocatable package     Required by
krb5-libs = 1.2.7-8     krb5-devel
openssl = 0.9.7a-2      openssl-devel

[Fett101]

Dependency hell. WHOOOOO.

Go download and install those files. www.rpmfind.net is a good place to get pre-compiled software.

[flap]

Anything that's required by GCC will be on your distribution's cds. Am I right in thinking you're using Red Hat? I imagine it should have some kind of package management tool that should resolve all this for you.

[Pantso]

The drivers won't compile because you don't have gcc installed as the others wrote. Everything is there in your install CDs, propably under a category like "Development" or something. While you're at it, make sure that you install the kernel source as well.

[LordWiccara]

Ok, I installed everything, and it STILL wont work.  It gives me a long list of errors (which are too long to post), and then quits.  Ill try the kernal thing.

[Fett101]

You could always post more then one post if you hit the forums limit.

[Pantso]

Hmm, perhaps you need the kernel source as well. Sometimes, drivers need the kernel source and not just the headers to compile. Try that bit, and if you still get problems don't hesitate to ask again.    

[ May 11, 2003: Message edited by: Panos ]

[LordWiccara]

ok, i installed the kernal source and even updated it.  still not working   :mad:

[slave]

What distribution do you use?

[LordWiccara]

Ret Hat Linux 9 Personal

[flap]

post at least some of the error messages.

[LordWiccara]

au_audio.c: At top level:
au_audio.c:1105: parse error before '*' token
au_audio.c: In function `au_handle_timer':
au_audio.c:1107: `wdev' undeclared (first use in this function)
au_audio.c:1107: `dev' undeclared (first use in this function)
au_audio.c:1108: `stream' undeclared (first use in this function)
au_audio.c:1121: warning: implicit declaration of function `wake_up_interruptible'
au_audio.c: At top level:
au_audio.c:64: storage size of `audio_fops' isn't known
make[1]: *** [au_audio.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mike/aureal'
make: *** [install20] Error 2


it does a lot of that. but the last 3 lines are the quitting error.  i can post the whole string of errors in multiple posts if u want