Aureal Vortex 1 Sound Card Not Recognized

[Tim Sheets]

Bill Nottingham wrote:

> Tim Sheets (tsheets at insightbb.com) said: 
> 
>>Hello,
>>
>>I am having a problem getting my sound card to be recognized in FC1.
>>
>>The system is an older Asus PII board, and the soundcard is an Aureal 
>>Vortex 1 as shown from 'lspci -v' below.
>>
>>
>>00:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Aureal Semiconductor Vortex 1 (rev 02)
>>        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
>>        Memory at e2000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
>>        I/O ports at b800 [size=8]
>>        I/O ports at b400 [size=8]
>>        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
>>
>>If I look at the relevant messages from dmesg, it is basically telling 
>>me that it can't config the card I think.
>>
>>[root at chode etc]# modprobe cs4232
> 
> 
> That's very much the wrong module.
> 
> The Aureal Vortex stuff is from an old company that has since
> died, as I recall, and they never released specs. There was
> a binary-only driver for it at one point; not sure if someone
> has gone about hacking up something else.

I was wondering about that....like I said, I don't recall where I saw 
that reference.  Anyway, I also tried installing the drivers on 
sourceforge, but they won't compile.  From what I read, Creative Labs 
bought Aureal and won't release the specs.

Thanks for your help, at least I won't beat my head against the wall 
with the wrong driver. :-)

Tim