[ILUG] Dell Montego soundcard problems...

[Niall Gilsenan]

Steffen Higel wrote:

> >
> > Anyway, I cannot seem to get my Turtle Beach Montego souncard (the OEM version from Dell) to work so far.  I did get linux drivers for it from
> > linux.aureal.com but unfortunately every time I try to install them it terminates with an error message and tells me the device is busy.
>
> Had the same problems about a month ago. Okay, scanning thru the readme it tells you that you must do 'make install20' for that particular chipset. However I didn't read it properly, and just did 'make install'. Anytime after that that I tried make install20, it gave me that exact error message. After much trying to get the system back the way it was before I ran install, my machine die and I reinstalled redhat. I ran make with the proper parameters and it picked the card up perfectly.
> I presume you made the same mistake I did. How to get things back from before I don't know, though I am almost sure it has something to do with modules.conf. Just try make install20 and see what happens. If it doesnt give any errors try something like 'cat /usr/share/sndconfig/sample.au > /dev/audio' to test it.
>
> Hope thats of some use to you, let me know how you got on.
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> Steffen
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Unfortunately I definitely used the "make install20" command.  I've tried it several times since and its always the same error (so at least its consistent).

I know the drivers are supposed to work on Redhat, maybe they just aren't compatible with Mandrake (why that would be though I'm not sure).

Oh well I suppose I'll just have to stick to windows for music and multimedia...

Thanks for the suggestion in any case.

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