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Hi i would like to know where i can get
the linux sound drivers for Via AC97 onchip sound card ?
except for paying for this at Opensound org.
Thanks in advance
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Best regards
ALik Blochin

Alik,

I also have a VIA AC97 chip (Ensoniq-1371, which emulates a Soundblaster PCI
128, I think) on board my PIII/667MHz/128 MB Linux system; it runs fine with
Kernel 2.2.16, 2.2.17 and 2.2.18, using both OSS and ALSA sound modules. To
get sound working, I recompiled the kernel, downloaded alsa-0.5.10 (I
think), compiled the modules and configured ALSA from my Linux Control
Center (I use easyLinux 2.2, which is based on RedHat 7, I think). After
that, I had the sound up and running. The kernel source tree
(/usr/src/linux-2.2.16 or up), as well as ALSA source tree
(/usr/src/alsa-0.5.10 or up) should be on your Linux CD's or can be
downloaded for free from every public Linux file server.
You'll have to recompile ALSA for each kernel version; since /lib/modules
has subdirectories /lib/modules/2.2.16, /lib/modules/2.2.17 and so on, the
modules can co-exist without overwriting each other. Just make the symbolic
link /usr/src/linux point to the correct linux source tree before
re-compiling ALSA
Whether AC97 on-board sound card support works for pre-2.2.16 kernels, I
don't know.

HTH, Werner

Quote:> Hi i would like to know where i can get
> the linux sound drivers for Via AC97 onchip sound card ?
> except for paying for this at Opensound org.