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Shamanix

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Registered: 2009-08-08

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Need help installing my sound card

I've got a BlueGears b-Enspirer sound card. They have linux drivers at their homepage (http://www.bgears.com/download.html), but i know tp little linux to know how to install it. Hope someone can help me install it

nefty

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Registered: 2008-06-01

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Re: Need help installing my sound card

Looking at the product page on bgears.com, it says the card is an Oxygen 8788 chipset.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-Media#PCI_audio

It's supported by alsa (http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index. … or-C-Media) so all you have to do is pop it in a spare PCI slot, boot up Arch, and it should work "out of the box". 
Enjoy!   

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Re: Need help installing my sound card

I did some reading... I warmly suggest you do the same .

Download the archive, in the Linux dir there's a readme. It reads like this:

Compile driver :
cd alsa-driver-1.0.11
./configure --with-cards=cmi8788
make
make install
./snddevices



Compile lib :
cd alsa-lib-1.0.11
./configure
make
make install

Also, the card seems to use a C-Media 8788 chip, and that one *is* supported on Linux (actually my Xonar Essence STX uses a similar, rebranded chip). Check also the information on the chip by the ALSA project.

Are you sure you want to start out with Arch? Have you used any other distro before venturing into Linux territory? If not, it's gonna be a bumpy road.

Edit: looks like Nefty beat me to it

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Shamanix

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Registered: 2009-08-08

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Re: Need help installing my sound card

i get this message when i try to "make install" the "alsa-utils":

xmlto man alsactl_init.xml
make[2]: xmlto: Command not found
make[2]: *** [alsactl_init.7] Error 127
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/Shamanix/alsa-utils/alsactl'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/Shamanix/alsa-utils/alsactl'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

Have played a little bit with "Kubuntu" before, but not much. I think Arch seems like a nice distro to learn Linux, i've come pretty far after the installation with a little bit of help. Learning much. Arch seems faster then other distro's, also kde isn't pre-customized, i like that.

Last edited by Shamanix (2009-08-09 13:28:49)