Re: [LUG] Installing drivers

[Timsmith09@xxxxxxx]

Thanks for your reply Neil.

modprobe wasn't recognised by bash as a command.

My system is:-

Asus A7V8X-x mobo on-board sound via VT8235 southbridge
Athlon XP2000+
512Mb PC2100 ram 256Mb PC2700 ram
Asus V9180 video suite graphics card
FDD
1st HDD Maxtor diamond max 9 120Gb (boots from this disk, contains Win XP)
2nd HDD     "          "          "    "    "      (Redhat 9 from RH Linux 9 for Dummies cds x2)
Diamond SupraExpress 56i PCI fax/modem (no driver for linux, conexant HCF)
Asus CRW-5224A   CD rewriter
Twinhan 1030 satellite DVB PCI card

the hardware browser gives the current driver as -  via82cxxx_audio, sound test fails

I downloaded a package from viarena - VIA RH9.0 Audio ver 0.81A.gz
Unpacked it to  viaudiocombo-2.2-3.tar.gz
unpacked that to   viaudiocombo-2.2-3.src.rpm

The instructions said use rpmbuild --rebuild  viaudiocombo-2.2-3.src.rpm
    error 'not a specfile'

>From a tutorial on the net I tried
                rpm -ihv viaudiocombo-2.2-3.src.rpm
message '100%'  so I thought it works!
No it didn't,  there should have been be a file in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i686  with i686 in the name.( sorry i forgot to write it down ) 
I've just thought of another question, there is a folder in RPMS called ATHLON does this mean at boot up before X starts the header should read kernel 2.4.20-6   ATHLON, mine says 2.4.20-6  i686 ?

TIA  Tim