alexis Posted July 13, 2004 Share Posted July 13, 2004 i have madrake linux 7.1 installed i tried to install my modem and my soundcard i spend all night and couldn´t install them i have a pctle hsp 56 mr modem and a alc ac97 realtek audio device, i first tried installing the modem and everything went fine until i tried to connect to internet and said either the modem was busy or it couldn´t befound, regarding the audio driver it use./configure and everything goes fine, then check audio module on (by default is on) i don´t know hw to do it, when i type make and make install i get errors.then i doownloaded the divx codec but counldn´t install, not even figure how the few files it incldes work, then in thereadme it talked about installing and the dll of the windows version( this guys is really a m*therflocker bastard) btw i downloaded it from www.divx.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ugenn Posted July 13, 2004 Share Posted July 13, 2004 i have madrake linux 7.1 installed i tried to install my modem and my soundcard i spend all night and couldn´t install them i have a pctle hsp 56 mr modem and a alc ac97 realtek audio device, i first tried installing the modem and everything went fine until i tried to connect to internet and said either the modem was busy or it couldn´t befound, regarding the audio driver it use./configure and everything goes fine, then check audio module on (by default is on) i don´t know hw to do it, when i type make and make install i get errors.then i doownloaded the divx codec but counldn´t install, not even figure how the few files it incldes work, then in thereadme it talked about installing and the dll of the windows version( this guys is really a m*therflocker bastard) btw i downloaded it from www.divx.comPost more info about your sound device please. Give the output oflspci -v For the modem, I believe that's a Winmodem (software modem). Are u using prebuilt drivers? Where did you get your drivers from? More specific error messages would be useful. Also Mandrake 7.1 is a little dated. Try the newer versions. You may find everything you need already prepackaged. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexis Posted July 13, 2004 Author Share Posted July 13, 2004 cool, yeah i am thinking about getting a newer version and also in that linux from scratch thing, but i wanna make things work first, if not i would consider it something like surrender and i hate the idea. The modem is a winmodem and i got ther drivers from the unnofficial pc tel linux site or sth like it. i have kernell 2.2.15 so i use the 2.2 driver there is also a much newer driver but you need kernel 2.4.x so i can´t install it. I am now at work but i think i can get to post the messages i get. I read somewhere a guy that tried the dirvers i used and said he couldn´t get em to work either but when he updated the kernel he and installed the newer drivers everything was ok. There was one util i dl for knowing which chiipset the modem is using but i can´t get the darn thing to work. i get a message saying i sould execute it on the local disk. wtf i trying everything and couldn´t geet it to workThe sound driver.... i tried many things with ony getting the configure ok, when i tried./install i got something like i should enable the sound on my kernel (how the f*ck do i do that?) anyway i think that the it is some drivers package called alsa or alsa drivers i don´t know but it seems to have lots of stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ugenn Posted July 13, 2004 Share Posted July 13, 2004 cool, yeah i am thinking about getting a newer version and also in that linux from scratch thing, but i wanna make things work first, if not i would consider it something like surrender and i hate the idea. The modem is a winmodem and i got ther drivers from the unnofficial pc tel linux site or sth like it. i have kernell 2.2.15 so i use the 2.2 driver there is also a much newer driver but you need kernel 2.4.x so i can´t install it. I am now at work but i think i can get to post the messages i get. I read somewhere a guy that tried the dirvers i used and said he couldn´t get em to work either but when he updated the kernel he and installed the newer drivers everything was ok. There was one util i dl for knowing which chiipset the modem is using but i can´t get the darn thing to work. i get a message saying i sould execute it on the local disk. wtf i trying everything and couldn´t geet it to workThe sound driver.... i tried many things with ony getting the configure ok, when i tried./install i got something like i should enable the sound on my kernel (how the f*ck do i do that?) anyway i think that the it is some drivers package called alsa or alsa drivers i don´t know but it seems to have lots of stuff.Linux is still young (although rapidly growing) as a desktop OS and as such, older versions are a lot rougher around the edges. kernel 2.2 based systems in particular is, ancient by today's standards. So don't bother trying to fix certain things. They're probably broken and of no fault of yours. Go ahead and try the latest Mandrake. I think you'll be pleasantly suprised by the improvements made. As for the sound thing. I think ALSA is available as an experimental feature on 2.4 kernels and became stable only in 2.6. I'm not sure if 2.2 supports ALSA at all. Anyway, you usually don't have to worry about enabling sound (the guy was likely referring to self-compiled kernels) since all desktop distributions have them enabled. You only need to make sure the drivers get loaded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexis Posted July 13, 2004 Author Share Posted July 13, 2004 all the stuff i dl said it was for kernel 2.2.x, yeah i will get a newer version. anyway by updating the kernel can i get things to work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ugenn Posted July 13, 2004 Share Posted July 13, 2004 all the stuff i dl said it was for kernel 2.2.x, yeah i will get a newer version. anyway by updating the kernel can i get things to work?Maybe. Are your ALSA errors compile errors? Or run-time errors? If they are compile errors, it means there's something wrong with the toolchain (gcc,make,binutils, development libraries etc). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexis Posted July 13, 2004 Author Share Posted July 13, 2004 mmph dunno can´t remember i will post the errors when i get home.Is it hard ot compile a new kernel? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ugenn Posted July 13, 2004 Share Posted July 13, 2004 mmph dunno can´t remember i will post the errors when i get home.Is it hard ot compile a new kernel?In a nutshell, yes. Mainly because of the build times. Screw something up, and you have to reconfigure and go thru the whole build process from square one. Also, you have to know your exact hw setup for starters, assuming you don't want to build everything, which will take you a long time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexis Posted July 13, 2004 Author Share Posted July 13, 2004 gr8 so i will learn a thing or two meanwhile Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gryph Posted July 13, 2004 Share Posted July 13, 2004 Is it true that Linux can't read NTFS? I was thinking of installing Linux on a partition I just made on my new hdd but its NTFS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wizard Posted July 13, 2004 Share Posted July 13, 2004 From what I gather, it doesn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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