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

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...

Re: No one would call me a guru...

[the_escapist]

I've tried 7.10, 8.10 and 9.04. It doesn't work on any of them, nor any other distros (though Mandriva and SUSE are the only one I've tested personally), because it's unsupported in the kernel. Which is a huge pain, as you can imagine. :\ But they're working on it, so hopefully it won't be long.