Thanks Darin, I feel the same way about these Aureal cards. I haven't had this one for long, but it used to be fantastic under NT4 (I only stopped using it because I changed to a motherboard that had onboard Creative CT5880 sound which was good enough for me on my development machine. Cheers, Lyric > Lyric, > I have an Aureal SQ2500, which uses the 8830 chipset.. This is by far > the best sound card out there.. It beats the SB Live hands down.. > > The drivers for it can be obtained here: > http://sourceforge.net/projects/aureal > You will want to get the 1.1.2 drivers, and patch number 407654. The patch > will fix a bug caused problems with ARTSD. The patch can be obtained here: > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=407654&group_id=810 > 9&atid=308109 > > Once you untar and unzip the drivers, save the patch into the aureal > directory under the name aureal.diff > Then do 'patch -p1 < aureal.diff' > That will patch the source code.. > Then do 'make' to compile > Then do 'make install' to install the driver.. > Its best to do this as root.. > > Thats all I had to do to get it to work.. After that, the drivers have > worked flawlessly for me.. > > Darin - > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "lyric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 4:06 PM > Subject: [expert] Aureal AU8830 Superquad > > > > > > Hey all, > > > > Does anyone have the above soundcard working under Mandrake 8.0? If so, > > did you have to install any special drivers to make it work, or did > > Mandrake find and configure it for you? > > > > I have one of those cards sitting on my desk right now, and I would like > > to make use of it in my Linux machine. > > > > Please let me know what was required in order to get this card up and > > running, if it doesn;t onvolve too much hassle, I should like to upgrade > > my soundcard this weekend. > > > > Thanks. > > Lyric > > > > > > Current Linux kernel 2.4.3-20mdk uptime: 5 days 21 hours 40 minutes. > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > > Current Linux kernel 2.4.3-20mdk uptime: 6 days 7 hours 52 minutes.
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
