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bdragos
February 26th, 2010, 04:38 AM
Has anyone successfully installed the driver for this sound card? I'm interested in obtaining the 5.1 sound through coaxial S/PDIF but I am far from getting there.
The manufacturer has a driver for linux but I cannot build it because of a deprecated package in 9.10 release (alsa-utils). I tried to force an install of the package but I ran into other errors.
Right now I sometimes get sound (not 5.1) but it's far from being reliable. At this moment I get no sound through the coaxial output without even restarting the machine so I have no idea what happened.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

PS: My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-M78SM-S2H with a GeForce 8200 chipset.

bdragos
February 27th, 2010, 01:08 AM
This motherboard was released 2 years ago and I tried installing Ubuntu on it from the beginning. Because it was too new then, a lot of drivers were missing and I had to switch to other os.
Two years later I'm trying again but it looks like again I'm out of luck. I want this computer to be my media center but without sound it's not very useful.