Installation of soundcards with Aureal Vortex chip

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Applies to

SuSE Linux: Versions since 7.1
Kernel: Version 2.4.0

Request:

You use a soundcard with an Aureal Vortex 1 (8820), Aureal Vortex 2 (8830) or Aureal Advantage (8810) chip.

Currently SourceForge developes the drivers.

You need:

Procedure:

Download the latest driver au88xx*.tar.gz from http://sourceforge.net/projects/aureal. Unpack the file with

tar -xvvzf au88xx*.tar.gz

and change into the directory.

cd aureal

Verify your chipset with the command

lspci -v |grep -iA4 aureal

Kernel 2.4 (SuSE 7.1 and 7.2)

First of all, you have to copy two files:
For SuSE Linux 7.1 execute the following commands as 'root':

rm /usr/include/linux/version.h
rm /usr/include/linux/autoconf.h
cp /boot/vmlinuz_24.autoconf.h /usr/include/linux/autoconf.h
cp /boot/vmlinuz_24.version.h /usr/include/linux/version.h

For SuSE Linux 7.2 execute the following commands as user 'root':

rm /usr/include/linux/version.h
rm /usr/include/linux/autoconf.h
cp /boot/vmlinuz.autoconf.h /usr/include/linux/autoconf.h
cp /boot/vmlinuz.version.h /usr/include/linux/version.h

To compile

Read the README for more details.

Please check the following entries in the file /etc/modules.conf

alias char-major-14 au8820
post-install au8820 /sbin/modprobe "-k" "au8820"
alias sound au8820
alias midi au8820

(These entries are an example for a Terratec XLerate with Aureal Vortex 1 (8820) chip. Please use the correct module name for your chipset) If one of the entries is missing add it with your prefered editor (e.g. 'vi').

After that check or edit the lines:

alias char-major-14 off
alias sound off
alias midi off

to:

# alias char-major-14 off
# alias sound off
# alias midi off

Now save & exit that file and run depmod -a. You can change the volume with one of the mixers, e.g. 'kmix' now. The support for joysticks is on IO prt 0x2001.

Notice

The Aureal module doesn't support SMP kernels.

List of soundcards that use the aureal chips:


Keywords: AUREAL, SOUND, SOUNDCARD, VORTEX, AU8820, XMMS, MIXER, AUDIO, XLERATE, 8830, 8820, 8810

Categories: Sound

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