Re: [Openvortex-dev] Driver needed for Aureal Vortex 8830 on Dell

[Ryan Underwood]

Hi,

On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 08:43:21PM +1000, Greg Edwards wrote:
> Hi,
> Sorry for broadcast email, I made a reasonable effort to find a 
> downloadable driver before emailing !
> I've got a Dell 500MHz PIII, nearly 4 years old now, running RedHat 9.0, 
> with Aureal Vortex 8830 PCI sound card. Now you'd think in a Dell this 
> would be one of commonest cards around and RH would support it out of 
> the box, but no. Maybe it's because I'm in Sydney and my Dell was 
> assembled in Malaysia with an unusual card. Anyway I got recommended to 
> Alsa and linked over from the Supported Cards table.
> Can you point me to a download ? or a buildable source download ?
> I checked out Alsa much earlier this year and my card was marked 
> completely unsupported then, so was pleased to see a driver this time.

For now, you have to go to the openvortex project page and check out the
"alsa" module from CVS and build and install it yourself.  If you've
never done that before, you probably want to set aside some time to
figure it out. :)

-- 
Ryan Underwood, <nemesis at icequake.net>, icq=10317253