Setting up soundcard/accessing windows partitions

[BobTheGoldfish]

First off, to get it off my chest:

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

This post is posted under linux
Took a bit of faffing but i've gotten my modem installed and worked out how to dial up

On to the more serious bit:
Firstly I wanted to know how to set up my sound card. I haven't been able to find a wizard or anywhere that allows me to set it up, and being a total newbie i wouldnt know any other way of getting this all to work. I have a Creative Soundblaster 4.1 digital if thats any help to anyone Oh and i'm running RedHat 7.2
Secondly:
How do i access the windows partition of my hard drive? I've been told this is possible, and i seriously hope it is, cos i wanna be able to listen to my mp3s and i dont fancy redownloading 3Gb again

 

[VaTechHokies]

How do you have your windows partition formatted? NTFS? Or Fat32?


EDIT: sorry, just read your OS...must be Fat32

To access the windows partition, just go to the mount point you set during installation (I cant remember where the default mount point is, maybe /dev or /mnt ? If no one answers I can post when I get hoem today when I look at my box). You shouldn't have any problems reading/writing to a fat32 partition.

 

[Samurai_Punch]

have you tried soundconfig? you may need to recompile your kernel as well to allow support, there should also be support for the card under OSSA (open source sound architecture) if you want to try that

I might be wrong on some of that -command wise- because im not using linux right now...

Wish i could be more helpful w/ the windows partition... because on mine linux can see my windows mount (/mnt/windows) and read but i can't write to it...

 

[David]

Try looking for a /windows directory, or /mnt/windows

If /windows does not exist try:
mkdir /windows
mount /dev/hda1 /windows

Open a Konqueror window in KDE/nautilus window in GNOME and navigate to /windows.
You should be able to get to your windows drive.

 

[Jeff Bolton]

does this work in every linux os? i remember once last year when i had suse on my box for a short period of time, that was an option that was set up for me, but i haven't heard of it in any other distro...awesome, that'll be cool if i ever put windows back again.

jeff

 

[David]

does this work in every linux os? i remember once last year when i had suse on my box for a short period of time, that was an option that was set up for me, but i haven't heard of it in any other distro...awesome, that'll be cool if i ever put windows back again.

jeff

Most linux distros will make a directory - SuSE 7.3 makes a /windows/c and /windows/d directories for my fat32 partitions.

replace /windows with whatever the heck you want

 

[BobTheGoldfish]

Well i've gotten access to my windows partition now

However I cant find either of the programs you mentioned to set up my souncard. If you can give me specific pointers to the locations of them/exact commands to run from the command line i can probably find it that way.

 

[David]

Redhat? I haven't used that. Try 'linuxconf'

 

[Samurai_Punch]

oops duh easiest way to configure something nowadays... linuxconf... i couldn't get soundconfig... must be on the antiquated side, considering i remember using when i used RH5.2...

to recompile your kernel and make sure the correct modules are being loaded, try this in a console -you will need to be root-:

cd /usr/src/linux-your.kernel.version
make xconfig

pick all the options you need and what not
save the changes you've made
then "make dep" and you're set reboot and hopefully kudzu should see the soundcard if it all worked right

btw you'll need to have the kernel source installed in order for you to recompile your kernel.

 

[XWRed1]

Its `sndconfig`, not `soundconfig`.

 

[BobTheGoldfish]

Okay i found sndconfig, ran it, nothing happened

So its either broekn or one of them I'm-pretending-i-dont-do-anything-but-i've-altered-some-background-stuff ones.

Then i went to look for the file for reloading my kernel
Under /usr/src/ theres only a folder called 'redhat'

Couldn't find a file called linuxconf


so.. um.. *shrugs*

Ideas ?

 

[David]

Okay i found sndconfig, ran it, nothing happened

So its either broekn or one of them I'm-pretending-i-dont-do-anything-but-i've-altered-some-background-stuff ones.

Then i went to look for the file for reloading my kernel
Under /usr/src/ theres only a folder called 'redhat'

Couldn't find a file called linuxconf


so.. um.. *shrugs*

Ideas ?

Looks like the kernel source isn't installed. What is Redhats config system called?
I know that Mandrake's is 'Harddrake' or something. And SuSE has the fabulous YaST and YaST2.

 

[Samurai_Punch]

It sounds that linuxconf isn't installed as well, if you run "gnorpm" you should be able to install linuxconf and the kernel source, it would be really helpful to yourself to install some of the linuxconf libs and devel rpms as well so you can get a nice X frontend to linuxconf. you'll need the RH cd's as well to define what rpms you have available too.