FC-5 Kernel says 'No sound card found.." on my on-board sound chip Riptide Audio Controller

Kam Leo kam.leo at gmail.com
Tue Jun 20 17:36:05 UTC 2006


On 6/19/06, Claude Yu <claudeyu at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>
>
>
>  Dear All,
>
> My system which onboard soundchip Rockwell Semiconductors Audio Controller
> installed with FC-5 detected no soundcard but only saying snd-riptide driver
> is expected. No matter how I have installed the drivers: alsa-driver-1.0.11
> or riptide driver without use.  The error always pointed to no soundcard
> detected and riptide driver never get installed successfully.
>
> My questions are always be these:
>
> 1.  Have the manufacturer not given the source code to Linux Kernel
> development Board(I assumed there is one), support of this soundcard by
> Linux Kernel such as FC-5 will never achieve even with the latest updated
> kernel driver with build-in sound support in it.  Would this be a case
> because the development board has not received the source code to build the
> driver for it.  While if there is no support, what should I do? Buy a new
> soundcard like Creative SoundBlaster Live! ?  Can I get around this if not
> buying another card?
>
>
> 2. In (1),  however, I have downloaded the latest alsa-driver
> alsa-1.0.11.tar and get installed.  I met error when attempting to run: #
> ./configure and then make install and
> the kernel didn't allow me to do with error pointing to not recognized the
> make command... and do not point to the right directory ..kernel/build .. so
> forth.
>
>
> 3) Then I gave up (2), and went to website:
>
> http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/riptide/install.php?PHPSESSID=94c723d09e695366e7a0c22092698760
>
>
> and downloaded another driver
> riptide-0.6lnxtbeta03122800-1.i386.rpm.zip specifically for
> riptide and get installed.
> This time, another error returned I have saved in a logfile as shown:
>
> logfile.log
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Linux RIPTIDE audio/communication drivers, version 0.6lnxtbeta03122800
>
> This package does not contain pre-built modules suitable for your system:
>   Distribution: Fedora-5
>   Kernel arch: i686
>   Kernel version: linux-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5
>
> Trying to automatically re-compile the modules..
> (this requires a C compiler and proper kernel sources to be installed)
>
> ERROR: /lib/modules/2.6.15-1.2054_FC5/build points to a missing directory
>
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 47 Jun 10 23:09 /lib/modules/2.6.15-1.2054_FC5/build
> -> ../../../usr/src/kernels/2.6.15-1.2054_FC5-i686
>
> Please ensure that the kernel-headers or kernel-source package is installed.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
> I have also printed out another logfile called assound.log  saved by driver
> installation in the root directory as shown.
>
> assound.log
>

[snip]


>
> Now:
>
> * what went wrong with the compilation that it always complainted about
> "points to a missing directory"
>
> * why error also ocurred when installation steps have been followed on
> either rpm package:
>
> Follow this If you have obtained the driver package in RPM format:
>
>
> 1. install the rpm with "rpm -i
> riptide-{version}.{arch}.rpm"
>
> 2. optionally re-run "ripconfig" to complete the installation (if
> necessary).
>
>
>
> Follow this or tar package:
>
> If you have obtained the driver package in tar format:
>
> 1. extract the package with "tar -xzf
> riptide-{version}.tar.gz"
>
> 2. change to the package directory with "cd riptide-{version}"
>
> 3. run "make install" from the top of the package directory.
>
> 4. run "ripconfig" to complete the installation and configure your board.
>
> (Alternatively to this whole procedure you may generate RPMS from the tar
> package using rpm -ta riptide-{version}.tar.gz")
>
>
[snip]
>
> Well, the installation page of
> http://people.redhat.com/stransky/alsa/
> seems a promising fix, but it mentions
>
> Install devel package for your current kernel , it's the
> kernel-devel-xxx.rpm package. You can get it here:
> FC4, FC5 -
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/
> RHEL4 - http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/
>
> that I have no idea which exact package needs to be downloaded and install
> as the path invokes so many package in:
>         from
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/i386/debug/
>
>
>
>
> I believe I am quite a newbie and please someone can help me untangle the
> mess!
> I feel really headache now as my same system runs perfectly with sound in
> Window XP Pro. I don't want
> to kill me enthusiasm.
>
>
>
> Best regards,
>
>
>
>
> Claude YU
>
>

Run the following command:

   sudo yum install kernel-devel-$( uname -r )




More information about the fedora-list mailing list