Re: [Sound] AU8810 Vortex and RH8

[Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 14:12, dolle wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I have just installed RH8 on my Laptop Asus L8400 B. 
> Only thing that will not run is my Soundcard:
> The Error message is:
>         device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such device)
> This is the result of lspci:
>         Multimedia audio controller: 
>         Aureal Semiconductor AU8810 Vortex Digital Audio Processor (rev 03)
> The driver I have used for RH 7.3 will not function.
> Could you help to resolve this problem, and sorry for my 
> bad english.

Aureal are apparently no more. They never released driver source code so
there is probably little anyone can do about it. This is why open source
is good