Linux newbie ...

[the_escapist]

I've been getting increasingly fed up with Windows lately, and so have been fiddling around with various Linux distros, namely Ubuntu and Mandriva. I soon discovered that my sound card was unsupported, and had basically resigned myself to the fact that I wouldn't be able to really use Linux on this computer. Yesterday, I thought I'd set up a dual boot with OpenSUSE 11.1 (w/ KDE 4.1.3) regardless, and mere hours later found a driver for my sound card.

Installation instructions read thusly:

In terminal,
1) Goto source directory
2) Execute make command as root
make
make install

I know enough to understand what it's telling me to do, but my problem is that I have no idea what to type into the terminal to actually do it. I've been researching commands ever since, but it's taking a while and right now I'd really just like to get my sound card working. Can anyone help me?

Comments

[baggyeyes]

What's your sound card? The manufacturer, the version?

No one would call me a guru...

[spydielives]

Which version of Ubunto did you try? I had 8.10 on my laptop and it worked fine with my laptop sound card. When I migrated to 9.04, I had to spend several hours banging my head against the keyboard trying to get the sound to work again. I did finally succeed.

I can search my history and dig out the page that did it for me, if that would help...

New driver you may want to try

[baggyeyes]

Found this - on Phoronix's blog

http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2009-May/017332.html

Or, you can wait until the Fall, when it will likely appear in the distributions.