c-media 8738

[Ozzman]

sup guys, im not that new to linux but i am to the desktop side, ive mostly worked with it as a webserver or gameserver or fileserver, lol basicly a server. my 30 gig HD from WD died on me a few weeks back and while i was waiting for a RMA decided i would load linux onto a old 6 gig i have and try it as a desktop for once, and so far loving it BUT ive ran into a prob, i got more speakers and wired my room so i could do 4 channel at least audio but i need to update my driver to do this, im on RedHat 8.0 but the directions are all for Red Hat 6.1 and dont work with 8.0 .. anyhelp on how to install the drivers? or update my current one to this one?

btw here is a link to the drivers..

http://www.zoltrix.com.cn/drives/soundcard/cmpci-5.68.tar.zip

the one on the c-media site seem to be corrupted or something... cant untar them.. but these are the same thing..

[Christoph]

I just got done doing the same thing for my sound card.
Here's how you can use the alsa drivers, if you're comfy recompiling the kernel.
Su to root and make a directory in /usr/src/ called alsa (name isn't important, but alsa is easy to remember). Save these (ftp://ftp.rfc822.org/pub/mirror/ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/driver/alsa-driver-0.9.1.tar.bz2) three (ftp://ftp.rfc822.org/pub/mirror/ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/lib/alsa-lib-0.9.1.tar.bz2) files (ftp://ftp.rfc822.org/pub/mirror/ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/utils/alsa-utils-0.9.1.tar.bz2) there and follow the instructions here (http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php3?company=C-Media&card=CMI8738&chip=CMI8738&module=cmipci).


That's the fun way. The boring way is to enable it in your kernel (there's a C-Media PCI (CMI8338/8738) option) then recompile.