Re: [LUG] Installing drivers

[Julian Hall <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Tim,

Possibly silly question from another newbie here.  Were you logged into
the shell as root?  I've found out the hard way that some commands are
not available unless you are, and Linux does not say "You don't have
permission to run this command" it says "unknown command" or a variation
of.

Kind regards,

Julian


On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 23:14, Timsmith09@xxxxxxx wrote:
> 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
> 


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