I have an asus a7v133 mobo with onboard sound. I found that the version (and most others I believe) dont support the onboard sound... luckily the asus site has linux drivers. However I have no clue about how to install such a thing. I downloaded a file containing files: 74audio.2216.gz 74audio.240.gz 74audio.cla22.gz 74audio.hap20.gz 74audio.mdk80.gz 74audio.rht71.gz 74audio.(other rht [redhat?] varients) 74audio.rfg10(and another with 20).gz First thing first... they are all for the same card, how do I know which one to use? Secondly how do I install one of these drivers? I tried unpacking them and i get files like: modconf soundcore.o viaudio.o vinstall vunstall Where do I go next? Lastly if you know how I can kill xwindows without logging out and/or getting rid of graphical logins that go straight to xwindows plz help me out on another post. http://computing.net/linux/wwwboard/forum/21111.html thanks

What linux distro are you using ? The different packages you mentioned are probably for different distros. ( rht - red hat, mdk - mandrake, etc ) The vinstall looks like a binary installer, though I can't be sure. Isn't there a README in the archive ? Normally there should be. Anyway, if nothing else works, you can always manually modprobe the binary driver (.o) AFTER you copy it to /lib/modules/[kernel-version]/kernel/sound/drivers You can get [kernel-version] by # uname -r at the command prompt. Just substitute the output in the above path. Now you do # modprobe soundcore # modprobe viaudio Once this is done, run $ /sbin/lsmod | less Both the modules you inserted should show up. If this works, hopefully you could try playing some music to see if it works ! Cheers