Re: [Sound] Audigy sound driver problem with installing.

["Clyde McKelvey" <cmckelvey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Registering the the RHN through up2date is pretty simple.
After you install RedHat you will see a red ( if memory serves ) circle
at the bottom right of the screen. Just go into that and give it the info
that it needs. You can also go to the RHN website ( www.rhn.redhat.com)
 login, and search for the files you need. It has the new kernels for
Athlon,
i386, i586, i686.

Make sure that the Kernel files you have, are right for your computer.
ie- Athlon, i386, i586, i686. I havent had any experience in jumping
from one to another. I just keep the same as installed. May not be
the best/fastest for the computer, but I only have a few months of
experience.

Asfar as the packages you will need, I would just try and install it,
and if it comes up with a dependancy, than I would install/upgrade
just that package. And not try and install everything at once.
I havent had that much of a problem installing new kernels,
I have only had to have the new kernel, and the new source.
Sometimes the source will need somethings to go along with it,
but just see what it is, and add just that. Yet, if you have read
from this list of another way to update the kernel, than by
all means do it their way. Because like I said, I am not
that experienced with Linux.

Also, I would do a fresh install, and bring it up. And upgrade to the
kernel you wish to use, and install the source for the kernel. And than
I would start over with the Emu10k1 driver source. Remember when you
get to the point of typing the "make" command. You will need to copy and
rename that file I told you about. And than the driver should compile
properly.





----- Original Message -----
From: "Mirabella, Mathew J" <Mathew.Mirabella@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <sound-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 10:12 PM
Subject: RE: [Sound] Audigy sound driver problem with installing.


> ok well i can get an internet connection going with wvdial.
> do you suggest doing a fresh red hat install, getting onto
> the net and using uptodate?
> if so.  can you tell me how to register with RHN?
> also to let you know... i have a very slow internet connection.
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> i already downloaded a lot of rpms from the i386 dir of the updates site.
> do you suggest that i install all the nonkernal packages from there first
> so that uptodate does not have to go downloading lots?
> i did download pretty much everything from the updates site....
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> i386/ seemed to contain all packages and kernel stuff
> i686/ seemed to only contain kernal packages optimised for i686
> which is what i have
> srpms/ seemed to contain sources, but not for everything in i386,
> and seeminly nothing for i686
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> Can you tell me how to go about installing everything from here and in
what order?
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> >From posts to this list, it seems that i should.
> 1. install all packages from i386 that are not called kernel*
> 2.  install the kernal update that i want from i686
> 3.  install the kernal source from i386  maybe the kernel doc as well?
> but not the kernel boot etc. stuff right??
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> so is it correct that i should not install any kernel stuff from i386, or
should i do this before going to the i686 kernel stuff.
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> thus, is there any point installing any sources from SRPMS?  what are they
for.  in particular, what is the src rpms for the kernal in SRPMS?
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> If i do all this, what is the need for RHN uptodate?  if i want to use
uptodate,  which things should i let it handle...?  can i download stuff
beforehand and still use uptodate to install them from local dirs?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Clyde McKelvey [mailto:cmckelvey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, 6 March 2003 11:23 AM
> To: sound-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Sound] Audigy sound driver problem with installing.
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> Than your kernel source prabably didnt install correct.
> I would do a fresh install if you can. And install the new
> kernel and sources over. Also, I would update the kernel
> through the RedHat Network.
>
> You will need to use the kernel source for the kernel you
> wish to run. Which should be the new one.
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mirabella, Mathew J" <Mathew.Mirabella@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <sound-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 7:15 PM
> Subject: RE: [Sound] Audigy sound driver problem with installing.
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> > but as i said, for the kernal i am using.  there is no such target for
> > /lib/modules/linux-2.4.18-24.8.0/build/configs/ does not exist because
> build is there but it is a broken target symlink and there is no
> /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-24.8.0/ to link to.
> >
> > /lib/modules/linux-2.4.18-14/build/configs/ is there.  should i use this
> config file for the new kernel?  but it is from the old one, so it will
> probably not be appropriate.
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Clyde McKelvey [mailto:cmckelvey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Thursday, 6 March 2003 11:01 AM
> > To: sound-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [Sound] Audigy sound driver problem with installing.
> >
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> > In RedHat, you need to copy your kernels config file
> >
> > /lib/modules/(kernel version)/build/configs/
> >
> > to
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> > /lib/modules/(kernel version)/build/.config
> >
> > Just copy and rename it. And than run the "make" command
> > for the drivers.
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> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Mirabella, Mathew J" <Mathew.Mirabella@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: "RedHat List" <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx>; "RedHat Install List"
> > <redhat-install-list@xxxxxxxxxx>; "RedHat Sound List"
> > <sound-list@xxxxxxxxxx>; "RedHat8.0 List" <psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: "Brian Bilbro" <b_bilbro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 6:45 PM
> > Subject: [Sound] Audigy sound driver problem with installing.
> >
> >
> > > All.
> > >
> > > I have a problem installing the emu10k1 stuff.  I got it from cvs
(lates
> t
> > source) and read the instructions in the ./doc/redme file.  it says you
> > should be able to do a make and if the right kernel is reported, do a
make
> > again, and then make install.  change the modules-info file.. etc.
> > >
> > > so i did  a make and got an error message.
> > >
> > > /lib/modules/linux-2.4.18-24.8.0/build... no such file or directory...
> or
> > could not be found etc.
> > > i expect that to use emu10k1 you have to have kernal source at hand.
> > >
> > > so i looked in /lib/modules and found a few dirs in there.  some were.
> > > linux-2.4.18-14
> > > linux-2.4.18-24.8.0
> > >
> > > This is because i did a fresh install of red hat 8 from the CDS which
> > contained the kernal 2.4.18-14, and then i installed the erata for the
> > kernal 2.4.18-24.8.0.  So it is not surprising that there are dirs for
> both
> > of them here.
> > >
> > > however going into the 2.4.18-24.8.0 dir, i find a number of things,
> amung
> > them a sym link called build which has no target (blinking on a red
> > background).  i then went into the dir linux-2.4.18-14 to find a sym
link
> > called build that did have a target.... at /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14
> > >
> > > so i went to /usr/src and i did find a few dirs in there,
> > > linux-2.4.18-14
> > > redhat
> > > linux-2.4 (this is a sym link to something, i did not check)
> > >
> > > but did not find a dir for linux-2.4.18-24.8.0.  that is, the source
for
> > the new kernal did not seem to get installed.  Why is this?
> > >
> > > I then went to the SRPMS that i got from the redhat updates site and
> found
> > the sources for the kernal 2.4.18-24.8.0
> > > there were a few rpms, one with the kernal, one with kernal-utils.  so
i
> > installed these kernal sources.  but nothing seemed to happen to the
> > /usr/src dir.  that is, no dir appeared for 2.4.18-24.8.0.  Why is this?
> > where did the rpm put that source i installed.  the rpm install seemed
to
> > work fine at the time.
> > > when running rpm -ivv to get a more verbose output, i saw references
to
> > /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
> > > so i went to that dir and still could not find anything related to
> > 2.4.18-24.8.0
> > >
> > > i then went back to /lib/modules/ and created a sym link called
> > linux-2.4.18-24.8.0 linking to the /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES dir on the
off
> > chance that emu10k1 would then find what it needed.
> > >
> > > on going back to emu10k1 dir i did a make and got a similar message.
i
> > think it searched in the SOURCES dir but still could not find what it
> > needed.  it reported that i needed to do a make configure on the SOURCES
> > dir.  doing this did nothing of cource because the
> /usr/src/redhat/SOSOURCES
> > dir did not have anything to configure.  there were a lot of sources in
> > there though.
> > >
> > > i then removed the symlink i created in /lib/modules.
> > >
> > > after all this, going back to /usr/src i found that the linux-2.4
> symlink
> > was broken.  i linked it back to the linux-2.4.18-14 dir that is in
> > /lib/modules/ .. hope this was the right thing to do?  i think that this
> is
> > what it linked to origionally, but i am not sure.
> > >
> > > Anyway.  how can i get the 2.4.18-24.8.0 source in the right place?
how
> > can i install emu10k1 properly?
> > >
> > > should i boot with the old kernal  and then install it with that and
> then
> > boot to the new kernal and link the module in?  not sure this will work
> > since i think you need the kernel source.
> > >
> > > any help would be apreciated.  hope i have not done anything bad to
the
> > system.  If anyone can see where i have gone wrong with symlinks etc or
> what
> > i can do to restore things... please let me know.
> > >
> > > Mat.
> > >
> > >
> > >
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